R&B singer Ashanti is giving the fashion world a run for its money with her recent voguish ensembles.
The “So Over You” singer heated things up a notch during her Valentine’s Day performance last week with her former label mate, rapper Ja Rule. The duo are currently on tour together, and they kicked it off with a performance at indoor club and venue The Novo in Los Angeles. They performed some of their hit song collaborations together, including “Always on Time,” “Mesmerize,” “Down 4 U” and a few others. However, Ashanti’s getup is really what stole the show.
Ashanti. (Photo: @ashanti/Instagram)
The singer donned a red glitter jumpsuit featuring a long-front zipper-line and hood, a pair of red strapped stiletto heels and a latex trench coat. She accentuated the look with a pair of oversized red eyeglass frames and opted for a short platinum-blond hairdo and a bold makeup look.
Ashanti. (Photo: @ashanti/Instagram)
Ashanti took to Instagram on Sunday and shared a chain of photos of her “smoking hot” performance look with the captions, “Sauce,” “Love” and “Valentine’s Day Recap .”
Fans of the Grammy Award-winning artist went bananas over her fiery fashion look.
“Dayumnnn!!! You Fine ,” one person commented underneath her photo. “Put some respeck on her name son… Ashanti @ashanti.”
“Nobody’s f–ing with Ashanti when it come to fashion periodT!” another fan exclaimed.
“Bad to the bone Queen you wearing that outfit ,” one of her Instagram followers wrote. “Talk about rebranding, you are getting it. Keep doing what you do @ashanti
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As far as rebranding goes, Ashanti said she’ll be releasing completely new music and visuals that are different from her usual approach.
” [I’ve] been working with so many different people, shooting a lot of things, [and] just trying things differently. Going outside the box,” she told iHeartRadio in March 2018.
She continued, “Trying different looks and shooting different kinds of visuals. I did a shoot where I’m standing on the ledge of a building, you know, one wrong move [and] it would have been over. But I think it’s just really important nowadays to touch people [and] bring something new to the table. And, you know, bring it.”
(Photo: @ashanti)
And while no new music has emerged in almost a year since the March interview, the 37-year-old fashionista did team up last year with Isabel Deng, the creator of New York fashion line Miss Circle, to release a “swaggy” clothing line. She told Page Six in December that the pieces reflect her personal style as a woman.
“My motto has always been to stay classy and sassy and sexy, not trashy,” she said. “I think that I always try to inspire women to be bosses and demand respect. You can still be sexy and swaggy and be the boss.”