Geri Halliwell-Horner Explains Why She’s Ditched the Glitz in Favor of More Neutral Clothes

Geri Halliwell-Horner is getting candid about saying “goodbye” to the brilliant colours of her Spice Ladies period.

The singer, 51, opened up about why her style has remodeled through the years from “loud, expressive” ensembles to a “calmer palette” throughout an look on At this time with Hoda & Jenna.

“You solely put on whites and lotions, is that true?” Jenna Bush Hager requested her.

“I don’t learn about you, however as you become older, you need to maintain it easy,” Halliwell-Horner responding, noting: “And one factor I’ll say is every thing matches. It’s simply, like, quick, quick.”

She likened it to how males typically gown in additional easy ensembles, which makes it simpler for them to choose an outfit since there are such a lot of completely different mixtures with the fundamentals.

“You take a look at the lads who’re all the time carrying these similar issues — a uniform,” she continued. “Can’t I do the identical? Why not?”

Halliwell-Horner’s new type is a far cry from what she wore on the peak of her Spice Ladies fame within the ‘90s — which was introduced up when At this time confirmed a picture of her carrying her iconic Union Jack gown.

“I made that gown out of a tea towel,” she mentioned, including that when she appears again on these outfits, “I’m going, ‘Aww.'”

In a 2020 interview with Vogue, Halliwell-Horner mentioned her type at a time that had “an actual robust taste.”

When it got here to the Union Jack gown, which she paired with purple latex platform boots, she defined that “the size of the gown is the sexuality and the massive boots are saying, ‘ what, you’re not going to mess with me both.’ ”

The outfit then turned a worldwide image of woman energy, and everybody from Kate Moss to Prince William began carrying British flag-embroidered items. It was finally auctioned off for practically $50,000 in 1998.

Halliwell-Horner additionally mentioned the difficulties of discovering her type over time, particularly as she grew older. The singer instructed Vogue that she was at a crossroads in her life at the moment — 10 years older than she was at the beginning of her profession, however eager to show that she was nonetheless simply as attractive.

And in the course of the Spice Ladies reunion in 2017, she wore a Roberto Cavalli model of the Union Jack gown coated in crystals. “I believe it’s fairly a tough age to be. [Like,] ‘The place do you belong?’ ” Horner mentioned. “That gown, the Cavalli gown, completely epitomizes every thing I used to be feeling.”

Halliwell-Horner additionally wore a full-length Union Jack ballgown that featured a corset and a drop-waist for the Spice Ladies 2019 reunion tour. “I felt a way of energy in growing the gown into one thing completely different, one thing much more timeless,” she mentioned of the outfit. “For me, it reveals the revolution of being a lady.”

The singer, who married Christian Horner in 2015 and is the mom of two kids, added that each one of her experiences helped her slowly transition her wardrobe through the years to one thing extra easy and basic.

She instructed Vogue, “The best way I gown has all the time mirrored how I really feel about myself at the moment.”