Love Quote by Fantasia Barrino

There is something quietly defiant in the plainness of it: “I like to play dress up” doesn’t posture as haute couture literacy, it claims pleasure. Fantasia Barrino frames fashion as play, not status, which matters coming from a singer whose public story has often been narrated through struggle, perseverance, and “realness.” By using the language of childhood and imagination, she recodes style as a space where she gets to be in control - experimenting, inventing, choosing who she is before anyone else chooses for her.

The second half, “I’m in love with fashion,” raises the stakes from hobby to attachment. Love implies commitment, appetite, even dependence; it suggests fashion isn’t a side quest but part of her emotional life. For a musician, that’s also branding in the most honest sense: performance doesn’t start at the first note. Wardrobe is stagecraft, a way to make feeling visible at a distance, to telegraph confidence even when the interior story is messy.

The subtext is that glamour and seriousness aren’t opposites. Women artists, especially Black women in pop and R&B, get boxed into narrow aesthetics: either “authentic” and understated or “extra” and dismissed. Fantasia rejects the trap by owning adornment as joy, not apology. She’s not asking permission to care about clothes; she’s insisting that self-expression can be tactile, loud, and a little theatrical - and still be real.