Released 25 years ago today as the lead single of her deeply personal sixth studio album Butterfly, “Honey” was a redefining song in MariahCarey's career.
. So memorable is her look that the shoes, originally from the fall 1997 collection, are now known as the “Mariah stilettos”–if you need confirmation, just take a look at any resale site.
A Dolce & Gabbana spring 1992 ready-to-wear little black dress on Cindy Crawford. Carey wears a similar one on the “Honey" music video.“‘Honey’ was the first time I felt I had full creative license in making a video,” Carey wrote in her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey. “My look was inspired by Ursula Andress in the 1970s 007 movies. I wanted to look glamorous, dangerous, and badass, like a Bond girl.
With a $2 million budget, the video is, to this day, one of the most expensive ever made. But, as with most things that are now part of fashion and pop culture canon, Carey and Zee didn’t go into it with the intention of making history. “We just wanted to do something really cool,” Zee says. If the Y2K trends she’s wearing are relevant now, he adds, “it’s also because those trends are on Mariah.
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