It’s not long after her defining Glastonbury headline performance that Vogue gets to catch up with Doechii and delve into her stuffed Louis Vuitton bag. “Me and my team pushed ourselves harder than we ever have for that production and it came out (kiss) amazing,” she says. It’s been a staccato-stepped, booked and busy year for the artis—from fashion weeks to her Met Gala debut and an international tour. Dressed in a sharp shouldered white blazer, glasses, and tie, Doechii gets down to the business of what’s in her bag.
The first thing to pop out of Doechii’s LV? A small replica of a narrow Dutch canal-side house that she bought on a flight to the UK. She had been journaling recently about wanting more trinkets. “I feel like it’s a lost art,” she says. “A lot of houses are into contemporary, minimalism, and we’re losing the art of trinkets and items of memorabilia in the home.”
The next item is, debatably, more practical—a pair of pointed, logo-stamped Prada heels. Emergencies, subways, bodegas: “You have to have your Pradas,” she affirms. Out next is her (“heavy!”) wallet and her grillz, custom made for the Met Gala 2025 to go with her impeccably tailored Louis Vuitton look, envisioned by Pharrell.
The most grounding thing in Doechii’s bag remains her journal. She’s kept one since the fourth grade. “I have to document my thoughts, and I have to have a release from my feelings,” she says. “I’ve documented my entire coming of age experience and one day I want to make it into a book.” Her latest journal is a black leather embossed notebook where she’s recently been writing poetry, as well as her thoughts, observations, and epiphanies from her mammoth tour schedule. While a lot of it is “super raw, vulnerable writing,” she shares a small snippet:
“I have access to an unlimited supply,” she reads, “reach out and take what you desire any time you like. God doesn’t run out of blessings.”
Also stashed in her bag is a book she’s currently reading, the powerful 2017 collection of speeches, poems, and essays from the radical, generational author and poet Audre Lorde,Your Silence Will Not Protect You, released posthumously.
“The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self revelation,” she reads from the book. That line, she says, “encourages me to keep using my voice in my music and in my art, and when I have platforms, whether it be at award shows or whatever, I use my voice as much as possible to reach other Black women, the youth, to inspire people to make change and do things and say things and create things that benefit the collective.”
Then Doechii switches up the tone. “This next one is kind of ghetto,” she says, presenting a cup of Itsu ramen noodles. “You get hungry!” She admits her mom would be shaking her head.
Delving into the pockets, she pulls out a clutch of lip products. There’s the Fenty Skin lip mask—which she wears as an everyday lip product and was recommended to her by the makeup artist Chelsea Uchenna, the pro behind those otherworldly Paris Fashion Week and Glastonbury beats—and the plumping Sephora lip gloss. More beauty bits include a Louis Vuitton perfume gifted to her for the Met; an androgynous, anytime of the day scent.
Next is her laptop and laptop case, from which she pulls a script by writer, comedian, and actor Jaboukie Young-White for an upcoming show she’s going to stay a little mysterious about. “I’m interested in blending theater and hip hop and turning performances into plays,” she says.
Then Doechii presents her angular, “incognito” shades—not super fancy, for when she wants to keep a low profile. “Showbiz can get really intense,” she says. To combat that, she meditates and takes her moments of solitude when she can, even if it means just some time behind her sunglasses.
Of course, she has to keep one of her signature pieces of headgear handy. Though she wears the style all the time, she isn’t sure what the bulbous hat is called: “I just know that I love them.” We know though: It’s London-based brand Nicholas Daley’s Baker Boy Hat.
“Where I’m from in the hood, they call these ‘fuck was hats,’” she says. “It eats every time.” Another essential? Whether you’re at the beach, a day party, traveling or otherwise, it’s a handheld fan.
This LV bag is a super personal artefact, reflective of where Doechii is now as a globe-spanning artist, the community she’s embedded in, and wider culture at large. “Every time I pick it up and use it, I have an appreciation for Louis Vuitton, for Pharrell, and for being able to be a part of Pharrell’s vision,” she says.
Director: Daisy Gaston
Director Of Photography: Jules Philippi
Editors: Katie Wolford, Sara Rao
Producer: Rashida Josiah
Creative Production Coordinator: Anisa Kennar
Camera Operator: Samara Addai
Assistant Camera: George Phull
Gaffer: Joe Nkadi
Audio: Adina Istrate
Set Designer: Tors Beedles
Runner: Hollie Drysdale
Production Coordinators: Tanía Jones, Ericka Gourgues-Lutran
Production Manager: Kristen Helmick
Senior Production Manager: Venita Singh-Warner
Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Global Entertainment Director: Dipal Acharya
Executive Producer: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Florist: Blooming Haus
