Name: Tems Reveals the Story Behind Her Viral Oscars Dress | Fashion Flashback | Harper’s BAZAAR
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Hi Harper's Bazaar, I'm Thames, and today I'm looking through some of my favorite fashion moments.

Okay, so this look is from my Jimmy Kimmel live performance in 2021.

I just remember most of the emotions that we're going through.

First performance, you know, trying to bear it all, almost, but not really, just slightly.

I'm wearing this diamond earring from a lovely vintage store that we found.

This day was very funny because it was my first time on any Tonight Show in America.

My stylist and everyone around was fixing things on my dress, but I didn't think there was anything to fix.

What drew me to this look was the color, the print on it.

It's like dangerous, but then it's still kind of classy.

It's my first time performing at an award show in London.

This is the highest slits I ever wore, but this was just like very daring.

It's supposed to be like really like provoke almost, but still classy.

That's why there's diamonds, even though there's like mesh and it looks a bit crazy, but still, you know.

And they had announced the award and that we won for Essence.

I saw two guys coming and they were staying in front of me.

And I was like wondering, why are you here?

And they called it and everybody was like looking at me and I was just looking at them and I was just sitting down looking like, okay, I don't know what's...

Like five seconds of awkwardness, me and everybody else in the room.

My face blown up and I was just kind of like, really.

This is the Grammy's 2023 and this is custom Vivienne Westwood.

When I saw it, I was like, wow, this is actually amazing.

Anything that brings out my curves, I love.

I don't usually wear pearls, but this was like the first time I did a pearl thing and I stuck some in my hair and I did like a two piece thing.

When I first saw this dress and this was what was happening, I was like, this is quite much, you know?

Like everybody was just like turning and people were taking pictures with me.

I was like, they don't know me, but they just thought I look cute.

We were supposed to change from this look inside, but we didn't get the time to and they scooped my stylist away.

So I was literally stuck with this and then it became the whole viral moment with the girl and the blocking, but there was no blocking.

The person behind me, he loved what I was wearing and he could see because the stage was up.

When I meet anyone in fashion, they always tell me about that look.

You're the one that caused all that trouble that day.

This one was the Vanity Fair Oscars party.

It has the wrap around my hips, which falls down.

And this necklace is Yves Saint Laurent by Tom Ford.

It's very simple, very classy, but it has a bit of edges.

Well, I love, love, love a good highlighter.

I just kind of kept it simple, nice gloss.

The theme was Karl Lagerfeld, a line of beauty.

This was actually referencing an old Chanel look where Karl did a lot with like feathers and he did a lot with head pieces.

And he also did a lot of black and white.

The skirt part is a corset, but the skirt part is actually supposed to look like a shirt.

So that's the collar on the front and the two things at the side are supposed to represent the arms.

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