00:00Quincy, you grew up in a home with two of the most important people in urban fashion,
00:07your late mother, Kim Porter, as well as Mr. Sean P. Diddy, Puff Daddy Combs.
00:13Yes.
00:14How did growing up in a home where a Mary J could just stop by for dinner or a mace
00:20could come by in a shiny suit, how did that influence, I said it, how did that influence
00:27how you looked at fashion in sort of the realm of the fashion sandbox because I would imagine
00:33when you see all of these people who are really the architects of urban fashion just in your
00:38kitchen, what was that like for you growing up and how did that inform the way you dress?
00:42Growing up, I was, you know, taking it all in but really wasn't aware of everything just
00:47because everything was so next door to me.
00:49You know, it almost seemed like, you know, anything could happen, you know, and I think
00:53between everyone being so just at their best at any given time, you know, that gave me
01:00a cool like sense of like, wow, this, you know, this is a lifestyle as well, you know,
01:04and you have to understand that, you know, everyone is unique, you know, in their own selves.
01:09And it's like, you know, you can see a, like my mom, when she used to wear certain dresses,
01:13you know, I used to get, it's almost, she used to give me these different moves and these
01:19different just people, you know what I mean, within her. And I was just like, you know,
01:23really, she made me really pay to just to fashion more because she can throw in anything and it
01:28look good. And I'm like trying to take after that as well, you know, just because like you want to
01:32be amused. You want to be, you know, something that you can try on everything.
01:35And your mother, Kim Porter was definitely amused. So, and thank you for speaking about the role of
01:41her influence in your life. Cynthia, I want to speak to you about the role that fashion plays
01:45when you're trying to develop a character. I've spoken to a number of actors and actresses over
01:50the course of my career. And a lot of them speak about not really knowing their character until
01:54they know what their character is wearing. And they feel like they can inhabit the character more
01:59when they know what they would be. So talk to me about that. Well, I guess it's, it's a human thing.
02:05So, you know, when you put a piece of clothing on, it makes you move in a different way. It makes you
02:09move differently, makes you stand differently. So we'll take Celie because everybody knows Celie,
02:14Colour Purple. So she won the Tony for playing Celie in the Colour Purple on Broadway. Yes.
02:23So when, so in the beginning you see her and she's, has her apron on and her shirt and the skirt and
02:29everything is slightly misfitting. It doesn't quite pull together the right way. And so it's,
02:35it pulls the confidence out of her. So that added to the things that are going on around her
02:41makes a sort of shrink. And then all of a sudden in the second act, you see her in these bright
02:45yellow pants and they're super tailored. And then she's got the shirt with just a puff sleeve. And
02:49then it's a little cravat. Then all of a sudden she can stand taller. And that's what it is about fashion.
02:55It's a little cravat. And then she can stand taller. And look at you to the top of theoon. And it's a little
02:58bit more. So it's a little bit more. So you can see her, um, and you're also going on on the other side,
03:04but you know, I just think she's doing a pretty good job. So that might as well. So that's it.
03:05So that's what she does. So that's so cool. So that's what she's doing.
03:07And she was really enjoying. And then she's doing it for the third act. So that's why I was really
03:10playing a bit. And she's doing it for a week. So that's why she that's the little thing.
03:11But she's doing it for the reason why we do this for the reason to wait for the song.
03:13She's doing it. But, because we can see you sharing it on the way through,
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