What's in Doechii's Bag? Emergency Heels, Instant Ramen, and Audre Lorde's Wisdom

Vogue

4 days ago

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.'