Music and Fashion go hand in hand, if you ever doubted this statement Riccardo Tisci, creative director for Givenchy has given us all a reminder by casting Soulful singer Erykah Badu as the newest face of Givenchy’s Spring 2014 campaign. Tisci has not done this purely for marketing reasons either, remarking he had her image in the back of his mind when he was designing the Spring 2014 collection, a mash-up of African and Japanese influences. Tisci said of Erykah: “She’s one of the most stylish women I’ve met in my life. She’s got such a good sense of proportion, of colors. Erykah, she’s an icon—come on! What I want to do with my advertising campaign is spread the love. Already now it’s been three seasons that I’ve been using people that express something—they are great artists, or beautiful women, or stylish women, or models that I really believe in. It’s kind of a family portfolio.” Eryka Badu deserves to get recognition as her contribution to music is amazing.
