French singer Yseult’s breakthrough moment came with her single “Corps,” which then went viral on TikTok last year. It didn’t take long for the fashion world to come calling. Now that she has the keys to the fashion palace, she wants her own room.
in France I questioned myself and thought it would be too much,” Yseult Onguenet says, her signature raspy voice sounding silkier and self-assured. “Then I quickly asked myself, too much for who? I was like I’m wearing my hair like this, fuck it.”, France, to parents from Cameroon, who urged her to study dance and piano — “No one asked me what I was passionate about” — but music didn’t click until she became a teenager.
Yseult’s breakthrough moment came with her October 2019 single “Corps” and again Stateside when the track went viral on TikTok in late 2023. Looking back, Yseult says, she wasn’t expecting the piano ballad to be a hit. In France, at the time, she explains, the attitude was: If it’s not pop or rap, why bother? “But I said I’m going to go against the grain of what other people are doing and I’m going to release it,” she says. “Everyone around me was like, ‘You’re going to crash.
Access to this luxurious world was something Yseult could only dream of. In 2021, the first time she really saw money from her music she decided to go all out and treat herself — likeIn one day she bought her first Birkin bag from Hermès, her first Chanel bag, her first Dior saddlebag, her first YSL bag, and a Chanel bag for her mom. “My mom was so happy with her bag,” she says. “That was the first time I got paid for my work, my music. I earned the fruits of my labor.
Soon after, that DM got her a dinner date with Demna in Paris, to talk more about collaborating on a capsule collection, even if that meant making custom pieces for her. Their dinner sparked a conversation about so much more. “It started a discussion about the needs and the specificities of my body,” she says. “Demna wanted to learn more about bras for larger women, having wider straps. We went into the details talking about underwear because we were talking about what my body needs.
Because for Yseult, the spoils aren’t enough if they don’t spill out to those watching her, to those who, because she’s there, are able to be seen and heard, too. “For me to be an artist today itpolitical,” she says. “When you have an audience, someone who’s listening to you, they see themselves in you. Even if it’s ugly; even if it’s beautiful. It’s me.”.
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