Doja Cat’s 3 2025 Oscars Looks Were Covered In Beads, Crystals, and Sequins Galore

What s up, Vogue?

I m Doja Cat and we are performing at the Oscars today.

And so I m getting ready

and I want you to watch and I m nervous.

A healthy amount of nervous.

Let s go, come on.

It is 12:15 in the afternoon.

She needs to be ready by 3:00 PM for the carpet.

The dress is not here yet,

but I have all faith within Hollywood traffic

and Oscars madness that it will be here.

We did our final fitting last night.

It is an insane piece of couture that Balmain did.

She looks like Betty Boop.

It s really crazy.

With Amala, who s like my sister,

but then being Doja Cat

and showing up in leopard print,

I don t know if anyone else

can really pull that off beyond her.

So I m performing Diamonds Are Forever by Sherry Bassey.

I wanted to respect the original sound

being it s from like the 70s

and so I wanted to channel her

but also give just like a essence of myself within it.

I love doing things that are not usual to me.

I m learning how to talk as a singer.

And so I m trying to split the difference between

being raspy and myself

and also being like this,

just giving them a little bit of warmth and tone.

It s protective towards the voice,

but without also, see, there s two different...

It s like I m trying to find the middle ground of that.

And I feel like that voice comes with a character.

My vocal coach did suggest that I speak in a dopey tone,

so I didn t wanna scare you when he walked in

and start talking like this.

So the dresses for today have arrived.

Balmain has done two amazing custom looks for us.

The leopard print is where we re going for carpet.

It s an insane moment.

This is all hand beaded from top to bottom.

I know there was like 50 different artisans on it

that were stitching by hand all of these insane beads

and our lovely tailor here in LA has been up all evening

beating the scarf for us to go around her neck.

They had this dress that was built I think in 1957

that this was inspired by, but Olivier did his spin on it

and it has like the sweetheart neckline.

It s definitely corseted to the gods.

But yeah, it s just super special.

Amala is moving into this new album cycle that there s a bit

of an 80s essence.

And so this is kind of bringing it to life,

especially with the glam.

So we were inspired by Mugatu, I m just kidding.

I love my natural hair and I love playing with it.

I love like the shapes that it can take on.

And so I really loved the idea of sweeping it upward.

It s kind of something that s been calling me

for the last couple of months.

I m just loving this kind of square top head shape.

And so I wanted to bring it to this

cause I think the dress is so incredibly strong

and to kind of keep the upper head area more top

and more separate from the dress as opposed

to long trusses hanging over the dress.

I think it lets the dress stand out.

I think right off the bat, you can kind of compare it a bit

to Grace Jones and the silhouette of it.

I love that head shape, I love angular hair too.

I think like it was something maybe more prominent

in the 80s and I want to kind of play with that.

I think that can be really fun

cause I can take my hair when it s not like this,

but like in the morning,

I can just go like that and it stays like that.

I go like this, it stays like that.

If I sweep it back, it s like very malleable

and why not take advantage?

So I have conversations with him for the most part

because hair is like hair.

It s a very defining characteristic of the body.

Makeup is depending on where you are creatively.

I think for this, me and Ivan

just wanted to be very like, elegant, sexy,

and not anything too experimental.

I think a lot of the energy is coming from the dress

and the silhouette.

With the gold dress,

Olivier did a blue version of it

that was a long sleeved a couple collections ago,

and I fell in love with it when I saw it then.

But when this opportunity came up for Oscars,

it s a really special moment for her.

This being her first time going to Oscars,

looking like a female version

of the Oscar made me quite excited.

So this is what she s wearing after the show.

It s, again, an insane amount of bead work

that there was multiple people in the 40s

is what I remember hand beading this.

And then at the bottom,

there s a fringe, there s a fabric fringe,

and then there s a beaded fringe.

So when she moves,

there s a lot of beautiful movement to it.

We have some very amazing pieces from Messika

and this necklace has not been worn yet

and it s super special.

It s like, I don t wanna say how many carats it is,

but it s a canary diamond and it s insane.

It s always experimenting in the end

because we don t get jewelry kind of till the last second,

just for insurance reasons.

But I want to try it with the dress.

But they did this really beautiful scarf

that just adds to that like classic elegance on the carpet

that feels like it s an accessory enough.

But yeah, we ll see.

When we get to the dressing, we ll find out.

All right, Vogue, I m done with makeup and hair

and we are gonna move on to getting dressed.

It s really, really, really special.

You look incredibly stunning, I want to cry.

I know that this is honoring Barbara Broccoli tonight.

So I mean, it s an honor for me really

that I get to do this.

It really is a classic

and a perfect series of films

that I really am very grateful.

She s gonna be a Bond girl.

I hope she enjoys it.

Okay, he wants me to be a Bond girl.

I m down, but I don t know what that entails.

But yes, I hope they enjoy it.

I hope everybody at the Bond Industries enjoys that.

[upbeat music]

That s a wrap and I am going

to go perform now for the Oscars.

Wish me luck and thanks again, Vogue, for everything.

[bright music]