http://www.vogue.com/article/spice-reggae-sumfest-dancehall-queen?mbid=social_twitter
FASHION > CELEBRITY STYLE
While there was a veritable runway of festival style on the ground at Red Stripe’s Reggae Sumfest last weekend, the most show-stopping look appeared when Spice hit center stage for her late-night set. The dancehall singer arrived on a four-poster bed, replete with satin sheets and fluffy marabou pillows, to perform her bawdy hit, “Sheet.” As she tore through her catalog of rude gal, s*x-positive songs—including “Romping Shop,” her Billboard-charting duet with Vybz Kartel—she quickly ditched her pink boudoir robe for a chain-encrusted gold bustier, then kicked off her heels. It was a perfect example of the artist’s fearless, ever-changing wardrobe—one that is redefining dancehall style.
Born Grace Hamilton in Portmore, Jamaica, Spice understands that fashion is a crucial element of performance and deftly wields a man-eating alter ego on stage. Her electrifying stage shows are always kicked up a notch by elaborate bodysuits and a rotation of colorful wigs that recall an early Nicki Minaj. Then there’s her penchant for kinky nurse uniforms and latex bodysuits that often border on fetish cosplay. She honed this flair for spectacle at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, where she studied music and drama. But beyond the pink wigs and onstage glitz, Spice isn’t afraid to dabble in more provocative, gender-defying fashion. Case in point: the fake mustache and three-piece suit she wore for her 2014 hit, “Like A Man,” which addressed gender bias and s*xism in the dancehall scene. In an exaggerated baritone pitch she sang, “You think they woulda rate me more / If I was a man and did drop it hardcore.” All it takes is a scroll through her Instagram feed and YouTube channel—which are filled with daring outfits and tongue-in-cheek takes on feminism—to see that the future of dancehall looks bright and bold.
I don’t like dance hall but I love Spice. Beautiful, confident and sassy.
Raayyyyy Spice reach Vogue, tho at times I cant stand her, after watching her Sumfest performance her ratings shot up for me. Gwaan gyal if a ur time nobody can stop u.
Go spice,who cares wat we think if you are being glorified by the fashion bible it self?
I think she looks nice uppatop, don’t like colored hair but I think this on compliments her, maybe because it is a lighter color
Well we all know we are our own biggest critics and Jamaican love to criticize and judge dem own sad. Gawn though spice mi still no like you style but you a win yah now boo do you thing
Yeah okay :ngakak :ngakak :ngakak :ngakak Glad they got her government name right. No fashion editor from Vogue can cloud my vision. They may add Fashion Forward to the title, but there is only ONE Queen of Anything Dancehall.
Spice work hard and is the hardest working dancehall artist out there right now PERIOD. Push through mumma if we are talking about current Queen Vogue is in fact correct to give her that title. Saw don’t even care bout that anymore she in a great place and might even become Queen of Gospels. Some a uno must learn fi seh congrats and keep it pushing, uno couldn’t even say something positive fi a change outside a the fact that this magazine made a few comments about her.