Lilly Singh, the talented Canadian YouTuber, is featured on the April cover of Vogue India, where she discusses “South-Asian” representation in entertainment industry. On her most recent cover, Lily is at the head of the table.
Lilly Singh wears a Crepe Pink Pant Suit from the Gucci Love Parade Collection, which he adorns in an all-Gucci ensemble. She wears a black shirt with white collars and a white waistcoat to give the look a bit more edge. Her makeup is natural, with hairs open, and she holds a white vase in her hands.
The flowers in the vase appear dull, yet the cover says “In Full Bloom,” creating a juxtaposition that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. One can speculate that she is absorbing the bloom from all of the floras and channeling it into herself.
Lilly’s style has never been about blending in, and she emphasizes that even more in her current Vogue picture. In all of her works, she asserts the whimsical. She wears a multi-colored knit over a Black Mirrored Top in one of her outfits. Singh wears a part coat, part dress in another of her photos, giving Whimsical Aesthetic a whole new Fashion Montage.
“I saw Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge(1995) thrice on the big screen, and growing up, my walls were plastered with posters of Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Madhuri Dixit as a kid,” Singh revealed in an interview with Vogue.” She added, “I also had a huge pile of Stardust magazines to keep abreast of Hindi cinema.”
“Be a Triangle,” the Indian-Canadian sensation’s new book, is presently being promoted. Lilly Singh is a pioneer of South Asian Representation in the entertainment world, where people of colour were not the norm, and she does so with ease. Despite smashing records in the industry, the comedian, actor, and former talk-show host tells Vogue India that she only has one competitor: herself.
According to Vogue India, Lilly said that, Bollywood was such an important part of her family. There may have been a vacuum in her awareness of American culture as teenage, unknown pop songs or classic films, but never with Hindi cinema. Lilly Singh tells to Vogue India that Bollywood is “Bollywood is stitched into the fabric of my being.”
Even as she rose through the internet ranks to command a passionate fanbase on the strength of a strong reel of sympathetic sketches, it never dawned to her that she might make a living from comedy, preferring instead to get pure satisfaction from having a physical presence in a virtual world.
She said in the interview that, there was never a certain moment when she informed her pals that she wanted to be an entertainer.” She added, she didn’t imagine she would have a career in entertainment even when she stepped into her parents’ room and told them that she wanted to focus on YouTube because there were so few examples of people who had done it back then.
She continued, it’s always been about rolling with the punches and finding things out as she goes for as long as she has been doing this. She explains, ‘Fortunately, it snowballed into this career.” Singh has crossed paths with celebrities such as Will Smith, Dwayne Johnson, Shay Mitchell, Selena Gomez, and Priyanka Chopra, and has included them in her sketches about lighthearted, millennial-friendly issues.
After nearly 15 million subscribers, Singh has dropped the “Superwoman” title. Her name became synonymous with a number of firsts, including being the first female and queer woman of colour to host a late-night show on television (A Little Late with Lilly Singh), as well as being the first YouTuber to land a hosting role on a network. She pushed open what had previously been a closed door to claim what was rightfully hers.
Published By: Apoorva Wakodikar
Edited By: Subbuthai Padma
