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The big story in fashion in 2025 is a call to arms for personal style.

The CFDA agrees and last year they gave her theFashion Icon Award.

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Accepting her award, she said: [Getting dressed] is my therapy.

It gives me inspiration.

The colors that Im attracted to, the amulets and talismans; those things are my personal power.

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For spring 2025, Mrs. Prada and Raf Simons basically urged everyone torelease your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin!

The world is a private joke between me and mythangs.

Something lit up in my brain right away.

The world is a private joke between me and my thangs.

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Prada spring 2025

Ive thought about that phrase at least once a week since then.

Erykah Badu at the 2024 CFDA Awards where she received the Fashion Icon Award.

I dont do that anymore.

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Erykah Badu at the 2024 CFDA Awards where she received the Fashion Icon Award.

Its the same principle.

(It happened to me.)