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Lots of Hot Pink and Minis: Here’s What Talk Show Host and Internet Sensation Ziwe Wears in a Week

From miniskirts to velour sets, here’s what Ziwe wears in the latest episode of “7 Days, 7 Looks.” Director: Keenan MacWilliam Director of Photography: Ava Rikki Editor: Tajah Smith Producer: Nicola Pardy Associate Director, Creative Development, Vogue: Alexandra Gurvitch Market Editor: Madeline Fass Associate Producer: Krissy Engelsen Production Assistant : Christina Lamagna Assistant Camera: Michael Vassallo Camera Operator: Alice Plati Gaffer: Devan Davies-Wood Audio: Sean Paulsen Asistant Editor: Justin Symonds Set Designer: Natalie Hoffman Prop Stylist: Scott Barazza Hair Stylist: Dhairius Thomas Makeup Artist: Karina Milan Wardrobe Stylist: Pamela Shepard Wardrobe Assistant: Audra Gooch Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar Production Manager: Kit Fogarty Line Producer: Romeeka Powell Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier Post Production Coordinator: Jovan James Supervising Editor: Kameron Key Post Production Supervisor: Marco Glinbizzi, Nicholas Ascanio Talent Manager: Mica Medoff Director of Content, Production, Vogue: Rahel Gebreyes Senior Director, Programming, Vogue: Linda Gittleson Executive Producer: Ruhiya Nuruddin VP, Digital Video English, Vogue: Thespena Guatieri

Released on 11/01/2022

Transcript

[relaxed music]

Hi, I'm Ziwe and you're watching 7 Days, 7 Looks.

[upbeat music]

This look is Miu Miu Spring Summer 2022.

I would wear this to work and it's like a nice outfit

because you can switch it up.

You're like, Oh my gosh, like I'm yelling at my writers,

or, Oh my gosh, like I'm now shooting with my writers.

I think I saw Nicole Kidman in this crop skirt

on the Vanity Fair cover

and you know it was like cinema was back.

I could feel AMC coursing through my body

and immediately wanted to try this on.

It reminds me so much of like my experience in prep school

and like just reading books in a library,

thinking about Latin, the language, which is not dead.

It's alive and well with all of us.

I wear something like this, I feel professional

but like horny, and it allows me to perform in that way.

Something that I think I pull from my show a lot.

Like all the different respective outfits I wear influence

how I ask questions or like the songs that we do

and how I perform them.

[upbeat music]

This is an iconic Ziwe way look.

I think of it as iconic because this is a woman

who's breaking barriers at her country club.

She's the first woman of color to be invited.

She's the Martin Luther King of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Versace Resort 2022.

And I like that it has high low

like it mixes white Jeffrey Campbell boots

with a Versace so it feels really sort of like old school

but also really fresh and modern.

It's Clueless, but meets Heathers

meets that new one where they're really mad

at the boyfriends.

I think I pull a lot from movie references

so like Mona May costume designed Clueless

and I watched that movie as a kid

and had no idea like who is this Dionne character?

She has braids and she drives like a Bentley.

This is so chic.

It was the chicest movie in the world, as Dereet would say,

I want them to see me as

a black Serena Vanderwoodsen ready to dismantle oppression.

[relaxed music]

[upbeat music]

This look is, Night Out.

I love a Canadian tuxedo,

and so I like to wear this when I'm in the club.

I won't speak to what clubs I've been to or not been to.

I believe in club privacy.

This is Sami Muro and Lalo shoes with Lalo glasses.

This look is international.

This look is global.

This look says, I'm going on a night out

in every single area code, zip code, postal code.

This is great because it's like, okay, I'm warm

but also I get a nice breeze

and so you're dancing to the world ends.

These jeans sort of call for a strong pose.

A strong pose, a strong pose, a strong pose.

Honestly, what's wild about this outfit is it reminds me

of Julia Fox when she did her Paris Fashion Week tour.

I interview her for the new season.

I like to dress like my guests,

especially when they're on the show.

I think that's really fun.

[upbeat music]

Hi, I'm Ziwe and you're watching

Real House Wives of Hollywood, baby.

These earrings are from Kyrie.

Christian Cohen.

He is such a talented young designer.

One of my favorite looks ever was an episode 202

and I'm wearing Christian Cohen crop dress.

So fun and chic and full of life,

and it kind of reflects my culture and my life.

This is my version of a confessional.

The confessional is basically they just talk

about their lives.

So I would just say something along the lines

of I did a show in Boston yesterday

and I got back at three in the morning

and now I'm shooting with Vouge, 7 days, 7 looks.

It's almost like that Lady Gaga TikTok where she goes,

bus, club, another club, another bus,

another club, drink, bus.

That's my life.

Every city has an icon like Marlowe Hampton is obviously

a great dresser.

Garcel, who's also in Beverly Hills.

One of my favorite dressers is Giselle Bryant

because she likes to wear clothes that you know don't

really align with fashion and I think that that's brave.

[upbeat music]

This look is called Social Media Star.

A social media star is anyone who sort of rises

through the ranks via social media.

I personally, have been described as a social media star.

First, I started tweeting and I built a Twitter following

as I was working at like a barbecue restaurant, miserable.

And I would get my tweets off.

Then I go back to like serving pork belly.

The key to being social media star

is sort of being really distinct

and having a really, really strong POV.

I famously love pink.

I wear a lot of pink.

And so what better way to show my POV

than to have a velour, bet on water pink matching set.

So I think that there's such range when it comes

to like how you find your look and what fits

in your respective budget and that's really important to me.

When we were trying to find an Oscar look,

it was really important for me to wear Sergio Hudson

which is a black designer who I think is just so chic.

And I remember when I was first coming up too as like

a young writer, young creative, it would mean so much

to me when someone who is more established would like reach

out into, reach out and grab my hand and not let go.

And so I hope that I can do the same

and use my platform to really help other people who are also

like toiling, working hard, trying to get that one shot off.

[upbeat music]

This look is My Prized Possession.

The prize possession in this is the off-white overalls.

This is like the chicest thing I've ever seen.

I feel like I would like if you go outside,

you never have to worry about bear attacks

'cause they'll see you.

High visibility and any inclement weather.

It's really warm, but also cool.

My stylists found it in a thrift store.

The things that people threw out,

one man's trash, a treasure.

So this, I'm like proud of the fact

that it's like sustainable

Brandon Blackwood bag, jacket, and Miu Miu shoes,

and it's just, I mean, huh, like I'm so warm.

So this woman roots out to me.

It's a small business owner.

She makes like custom necklaces, and rings, and the like,

and she reached out to me about co-labbing

with my show and so she sent me this necklace.

So this hat is also a prize possession.

I got it during the pandemic.

I don't know about y'all

but there was this brief two years where

I wasn't allowed to leave my house and randomly

I became a consumer, and I was consuming this faux fur hat

by Emma Bruin, who is this London based designer.

[upbeat music]

This look is called Tennis Star Ziwe.

I started playing tennis in middle school.

I attended a summer camp

and their only priority was to teach us tennis

so that when we would like leave our hometowns

we would look cultured.

And so I learned tennis

and then I taught at the camp as an adult.

I'm not good at tennis,

but I could beat a sixth grader at tennis with no remorse.

This look is Fila and New Balance shoes.

I think the most stylish sport is tennis.

I watched Serena's last game, and wow.

You can feel the emotion in the room.

It was absolutely like beautiful to watch a great,

and the looks were fresh.

Venus I think is a pathfinder.

We don't talk enough about how she kind of broke barriers

by getting in a huge endorsement at 15 years old by Reebok.

She's like an icon, a legend, a founding father.

Thank you for watching my 7 days and 7 looks.

[upbeat music]

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