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Beyoncé wore exclusively Black designers in honour of Juneteenth for her recent Renaissance performance
After closing the British leg of her Renaissance tour — during which she championed a cadre of homegrown designers — Beyoncé took to the stage in Amsterdam on Sunday evening to shine a light on Black fashion brands.
Taking to Instagram to share a series of photos, the performer wrote: "In honour of Juneteenth, everything I wore for Renaissance world tour tonight was created exclusively by Black designers."
The Black designers she championed on stage included London label Feben, Maximilian Davis for Ferragamo, Olivier Rousteing for Balmain, Ibrahim Kamara for Off-White and LaQuan Smith. Beyoncé has collaborated with stylists KJ Moody, Shiona Turini and Karen Langley for her disco-inspired Renaissance tour.
She also debuted several of her own new designs for Ivy Park, the athleisure brand she founded in 2016, saying that she was "proud to be among the very talented Black designers featured" in the show.
"I started designing this collection over a year ago," she wrote. "I was so engulfed in all things Renaissance and was inspired by Studio 54, Bob Mackie and the disco era."
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans.
Beyoncé has made a point to champion designers local to the areas in which she’s performed during the tour so far. The star performed on stage in Amsterdam in a design by Iris van Herpen, which was crafted from 980 different shapes, Swarovski crystals and a glass-organza cape. The 'Heliosphere' outfit involved 12 people from Iris van Herpen's atelier, who worked over a total of 700 hours on the look.
In London, the Ivy Park founder threw her weight behind British brands including Alexander McQueen — in a maroon dress-and-boots combination lifted straight from the label’s AW23 collection — and Roksanda.
The Renaissance tour, which is in honour of Bey’s seventh studio album of the same name, started in Stockholm in May and has seen her perform at 57 stadiums across Europe in the weeks since, including in Marseilles, Barcelona and Amsterdam.
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