Cardi B on Feeling Like Lizzie McGuire, Taking Risks in Fashion, and What She and Bernie Sanders Have in Common – Vogue
On raising her daughter:
“Well, I always say this: I will always keep my daughter humble. She’s still going to the Bronx, she’s still going to Washington Heights, she’s going to my grandmother’s house. I’m always going to tell her to not brag about the things she has because some of her friends, cousins, and family members, they don’t have. I want to let her know that you might be rich you might grow up in a certain type of neighborhood, but there’s going to be certain people who are not going to look at you as rich and you might be in a class full of people that might not look like you, and they’re going to pick on the way that you look, on your features and on your hair, and you’ve got to be very confident. You need to know that this country sometimes feels like it wasn’t made for us. It gives us a certain type of freedom but not a complete freedom. Even though you’re rich, some people are going to just see you as a minority.”
On getting invited to Paris Fashion Week:
“I’ve worked so hard to be able to get to these shows. When it comes to the fashion industry, they don’t care if you’ve got number one hits, all the awards, if you just ain’t stylin’ right, they just ain’t gonna invite you to their shows, they just don’t care. You’ve got to be into it and you’ve got to have a sense of style. It’s something that you’ve got to prove. It’s taken me years for me to prove it and I’m finally where I want to be. Has anyone seen that Hillary Duff movie [The Lizzie McGuire Movie]? There’s a song in it that anytime I go to an event that I’ve always wanted to go to, I always play it in my head. It goes, “Hey now, hey now, this is what dreams are made of.” That’s how I feel every single time that I get invited to these fashion events because we work our ass off, we make sure everything is on point from the amount of cleavage is shown to the way that clothing is tailored.”
On working with her stylist Kollin Carter:
“We started working together when I did this photoshoot for The Fader. That’s when I met him and I was a little hard on him. I have a certain type of body—I’m skinny but I’ve got big boobs and a big butt so certain things just make my body look a little weird and everything. I liked how he was just so determined. He has a solution for everything. We’ve worked with each other ever since. We both give our input. Sometimes we don’t agree on certain types of things, but we end up doing it and it looks great. If it doesn’t the reviews that we like, or if we don’t think that it photographed well, it’s okay. We just do another outfit. It’s fun, clean, and classy, and sometimes I got to be a little slutty, because I still got to show my body a little bit. To me, every outfit is such a risk.”
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