Honey Dijon
Born and raised in Chicago, Honey Dijon grew up surrounded by House music, and the creative souls who started a global movement. Moving to New York, she learned her art of DJing the right way: by playing records night after night after night. She worked the dancefloors of the city to master her connection with the crowd, that special magic she now brings to every set she plays. It led to some legendary residencies, such as Sunday nights at Hiro, and Ladyfag’s Battle Hymn party, where every Pride she would play twelve hours sets.
As a kid, Honey had educated herself about fashion, devouring magazines while knowing, at that time, fashion would have no place for a queer person of colour. When she started DJing, the New York fashion crowd soon took notice. Finally, Honey could share her knowledge and understanding of fashion, mixing its creativity and self-expression into her art.
Honey has put in the work in music and fashion, the results of which are clear for all to see: the legendary Sugar Mountain DJ set for Boiler Room with now over 6,000,000 views on YouTube; her fashion line Honey Fucking Dijon now stocked in stores worldwide; her 194K followers on Instagram; her work mixing catwalk music for creative director Kim Jones, now of Dior Men, including the soundtrack for his show in his previous role as creative director of men’s at Louis Vuitton which revealed the game-changing Supreme collaboration.
Which is all just a beginning.
Music. Fashion. Art. It’s in everything that Honey touches. “I come from a background where art is interdisciplinary,” she says. “If I think about the artists I love, from Keith Haring to Jean Michel Basquiat, from Kenny Scharfe to Klaus Nomi, they all mixed worlds together. Look at Klaus Nomi singing back-up vocals for David Bowie. These worlds should collide.”
And so Black Girl Magic is the next chapter in Honey Dijon’s personal journey. “I am always asking questions,” she says, “about myself, about the world. That is what I want Black Girl Magic to be. For me, this questioning is a lifelong pursuit. I’ve been questioning things my whole life. It’s what energised my then and it is what fires me today. I’ll never settle.”
