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Jorja On
My Mind
Dior’s new global
makeup ambassador
is a burgeoning
R&B superstar with
something to say.
Jorja Smith is feeling a bit under the weather. “I
thought I was going to be OK, so I apologize,”
she laments to the crowd at this year’s Governors Ball
Music Festival inside Randall’s Island Park. But a summer
cold is no match for the celestial falsetto of the Grammy-
nominated R&B star, who has taken to the stage in a
burnt-orange leather crop top and metallic trousers, with
coral-tinted eyelids to match. Smith unleashes her lush,
BEAUTY
TWIRL POWER
A DEMURE JORJA SMITH IN A DIOR DRESS AND NECKLACE. PHOTOGRAPHED
BY TINA TYRELL. FASHION EDITOR: ANNA SCHIFFEL.
velvety vocals, seamlessly crooning the songs on her debut
album, Lost & Found (2018)—including “Blue Lights,” the
politically charged single that launched her career.
Forty-eight hours later and Smith is still in the throes of
the bug, she says, intermittently humming along BEAUTY>50