Overview
- In Vogue's Life in Looks, Grande reflects on gravitating to oversized sweatshirts and thigh-high boots during what she calls a very strange time.
- She says the cozy layers helped her hide as she processed difficult emotions, while the boots still gave her a measure of confidence.
- The period followed the 2017 Manchester concert bombing, which killed 22 people and injured more than 500, after which she discussed anxiety and PTSD.
- Less than two weeks after suspending her tour, she returned to Manchester to headline a benefit concert featuring major performers.
- Grande also references 2018 as the year her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller died of an accidental overdose, later describing her grief in a 2019 Vogue interview as all-consuming.