“I know how to dress my curves. I know what I like and what it’s all about. It’s like, ‘Who’s your fashion icon?’ Me. And no one but you knows what you feel most comfortable in,” Jennifer Hudson has said about her style. The actress and mom of 8-year-old David (with former wrestler partner David Otunga) favors skintight, tailored sheaths and plunging gowns on the red carpet. But for everyday wear, she told WWD, “I have a lot of things to do throughout the day, being a mom, going to work. It just varies. I like to make sure my clothes are interchangeable, they’re comfortable and they look good at the same time. I’m a working woman.” Stylish looks back at the 35-year-old star’s top hair and makeup looks.
Beauty of the Day: 5 Secrets of Jennifer Hudson’s Style
“I know how to dress my curves. I know what I like and what it’s all about. It’s like, ‘Who’s your fashion icon?' Me. And no one but you knows what you feel most comfortable in,” Jennifer Hudson has said about her style. The actress and mom of 8-year-old David (with former wrestler partner David Otunga) favors skintight, tailored sheaths and plunging gowns on the red carpet. But for everyday wear, she told WWD, “I have a lot of things to do throughout the day, being a mom, going to work. It just varies. I like to make sure my clothes are interchangeable, they’re comfortable and they look good at the same time. I’m a working woman.” Stylish looks back at the 35-year-old star’s top hair and makeup looks.
“I know how to dress my curves. I know what I like and what it’s all about. It’s like, ‘Who’s your fashion icon?' Me. And no one but you knows what you feel most comfortable in,” Jennifer Hudson has said about her style. The actress and mom of 8-year-old David (with former wrestler partner David Otunga) favors skintight, tailored sheaths and plunging gowns on the red carpet. But for everyday wear, she told WWD, “I have a lot of things to do throughout the day, being a mom, going to work. It just varies. I like to make sure my clothes are interchangeable, they’re comfortable and they look good at the same time. I’m a working woman.” Stylish looks back at the 35-year-old star’s top hair and makeup looks.
The Oscar-winning singer and actress (in an Altuzarra dress at the press launch of The Voice UK in London on January 4, 2017) dropped 80 pounds as a Weight Watchers spokesmodel and joked to Yahoo! Style that she throws “pancakes across the room” to resist temptation. “I don’t let food intimidate me. If it’s too much, I just get rid of it, but I make sure to watch what I put in my body. … I don’t work out a lot, but I do like to be active.”
“I like brooches,” the Sing lead told WWD. “[They] give you something to play with, add to things. Switch it up.” True to form, she wore her favorite fashion embellishment with a cocoa smoky eye and an oxblood lip to the March of Dimes event in Beverly Hills on December 9, 2016.
Almost one year after she debuted a Grace Jones–inspired crop on Instagram for her role in Broadway’s The Color Purple, the Chicago native (in a J. Mendel gown) rocked a bangin’ bob at the Sing premiere in L.A. on December 3, 2016. "I'm tired of the big long hair, the bangs in front … a bunch of hair that does not belong to me. Short hair is about presence,” she told Billboard of her years-long run on the short (hair) circuit.
For an event in NYC in December 2016, Hudson paired a Theory dress with fuchsia lipstick. Her go-to makeup product: Per-fekt’s Skin Perfection Gel, a shimmery bronze cream infused with vitamins A and E. “I love this stuff,” she told Vibe magazine. “I mix [the gel] in Rich with a little moisturizer and apply it all over my face as a base."
It took four fittings to perfect the H&M gown she modeled at the Met Gala in NYC on May 2, 2016. "To me, H&M is a bridge between the everyday girl and the Hollywood girl. It represents every girl and every woman, and I feel like we all connect to it. So I feel like I’m representing every girl. I really do,” she said of her look.
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