She included Josephine Baker, the music-hall star and World War II spy, too. Shepard-Hill included iconic - a favorite “Ziwe” adjective - models like Donyale Luna and Naomi Campbell, as well as rappers like Rico Nasty and Saweetie. When putting together a mood board for the show, Ms. In the 1920s-inspired number “Lisa Called the Cops on Black People,” she wears her own off-the-shoulder black velvet-and-mesh catsuit by LaQuan Smith. “It so encapsulates the idea of ‘Stop Being Poor’ that I got it for ‘Stop Being Poor’ before we even wrote the song ‘Stop Being Poor,’ when I just knew that it was something I wanted to do.” “How absurd is it to have a dress that luxurious in a time like this?” she said. (In a sketch about plastic surgery, she wears matching pink sweatpants and a sleeveless crop top, wordlessly making a reference to Amy Poehler’s desperate mom from “Mean Girls.”)
Fumudoh plays an audacious, quick-witted consumerist, whose attitude and armor is inspired by an unholy marriage of Dionne from “Clueless” and Paris Hilton in “The Simple Life,” along with a few other ultrafeminine pop culture figures of the 1990s and aughts. On “Ziwe,” whether during a confrontational interview or parody music video, Ms. Fumudoh would ask for six more, “and then let’s do a cuff that’s entirely made of diamonds,” she said.
When the costume designer Pamela Shepard-Hill would add a ring to an outfit, Ms.
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Fumudoh was explaining how the wardrobe for the series came together: a tornado of pink that has sucked up a few feather boas, a mountain of crystal embellishments and an assortment of fuzzy hats, plastic visors, tiny sunglasses and opera gloves. And you see that reflected in how I dress.” Fumudoh said a few days before the premiere of “Ziwe.” “It’s only hyperbole that somebody would ask that question. In the first episode of her new variety series on Showtime, the comedian Ziwe Fumudoh asks the writer Fran Lebowitz: “What bothers you more: slow walkers or racism?”
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