Erykah Badu Gets Decked in Her Signature Face Jewelry as Her Trailblazing Style Is Honored at 2024 CFDA Awards

Mar. 15, 2025

Erykah Badu at 2024 CFDA Fashion Awards.Photo:Jamie McCarthy/WireImage

Jamie McCarthy/WireImage

Erykah Baduhas arrived at the CFDA Fashion Awards (and her entrance was nothing short of showstopping).

On Oct. 28, the singer-songwriter, 53, became the newest recipient of the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Fashion Icon award and hit the carpet in a look befitting for, well, an icon.

Erykah Badu at 2024 CFDA Fashion Awards.Jamie McCarthy/WireImage

For the custom headpiece and septum jewelry, CHRISHABANA’s creative director, Chris Habana, worked closely with Badu herself. The singer asked Habana to reinterpret an AI-generated image that was a collage of global styles and influences.

Badu joins Zendaya, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna and Lady Gaga among the stars to have received the prestigious award, which has recognized influential figures in fashion since 2010.

The honor celebrates Badu’s “distinctive, fearless” sense of style, including her signature love for bold headwear.

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“This honor is amazing, and I do not take it for granted. I’ve always had a love for taking bits and pieces of the things I am attracted to and creating something far more grand than the sum of those parts. From the music I make, to the looks I put on, to the technology I’m developing, I’m always looking for innovative, exciting ways to be more expressive and connect with people, to be closer to nature,” Badu shared in a statement.

Erykah Badu in Comme des Garçons at the 2024 Met Gala.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

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CFDA will also fête her bold sartorial résumé, which has featured looks from designer labels such as Rick Owens, Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty and Thom Browne.

“Erykah Badu and fashion are synonymous in many ways. Erykah effortlessly exudes herself, her unique point of view, through the clothing she chooses to wear and each look she dreams up is so individual and true to herself,' shared Browne, who’s also a CFDA chairman.

source: people.com