Singer Janelle Monáe may be five feet tall, but everything else—the look, the hair, the talent—is larger than life.
She shops only for what she doesn't have custom-made: crisp cotton shirts (Anne Fontaine, J.Crew, and her favorite, Ralph Lauren, whom she refers to by her nickname for him, "That Guy"); riding boots from That Guy; and George Esquivel shoes, buying five or six pairs at a time because "I panic I'll miss out. He makes only about 100 pairs of each style." Everything is black or white or both, and it has been that way for years, ever since she left her native Kansas City, Kansas, at seventeen to study musical theater in New York before moving to Atlanta five years ago. "It centers me," she says of the strict palette. "And it lets the colors in my personality come out." (She just saw Coco Before Chanel, and she loved Mlle's disciplined commitment to the very same color scheme: "That would have been me back then," she says, laughing.) Her most recent purchase is the five pairs of tux pants that Gillies and Saxxon made for her. "The high waistline is good; it elongates my legs," she says, holding them up against her. "But you know, I do like being short. A lot of my favorite artists are short. James Brown. Prince." "And like them," Saxxon says, barely raising an eyebrow, "you might be a little larger than life, too." 
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