Usher and visual artist Lauren Halsey have built a close, ongoing collaboration that spans visual art commissions and a custom tour wardrobe for his stadium shows.

Usher explains his creative process starts with home as a sanctuary, a place where art and personal history merge and inform his work.

The collaboration centers on memory and history, with art and wardrobe acting as a narrative archive that transcends traditional fashion to tell cultural stories.

Halsey’s multidisciplinary practice blends sculpture, wearable art, and fashion, with the tour look emphasizing color, neon elements, and a conceptual palette inspired by everyday Black women as wearable art.

Usher commissioned a barbershop-poster-inspired engraved piece from Halsey for his Atlanta home, underscoring a storytelling thread that ties art to personal history and Black cultural spaces.

Halsey outlines a broader artistic approach, including a Hollywood Bowl project with collaborators like Erykah Badu, Flea, Anderson .Paak, and Charles Gaines, exploring stage design and experiential art beyond galleries.

Both artists express a desire to work together again, with Usher praising Halsey’s ability to immerse viewers in her experience and cradle history through her work.