Gwen Stefani’s Candy-Coated Couture in “Luxurious” – 2004

The video opens with Stefani styled as a high school chola, complete with slicked-back hair, oversized hoops, and gold jewelry etched with her name. But it’s the later scenes—particularly the one where she lies sprawled across a bed of multicolored candy pieces, wearing a green top and dark shorts, arms adorned with chunky accessories—that cement the video’s surrealist legacy.

It’s a tableau that feels lifted from a Frida Kahlo dream sequence, filtered through early-2000s pop maximalism. The candy isn’t just backdrop—it’s metaphor, mood, and mayhem. Stefani’s pose is languid, almost devotional, as if she’s offering herself to the altar of excess.

The song itself, produced by Nellee Hooper and Tony Kanal, samples The Isley Brothers’ “Between the Sheets” and spins it into an R&B ballad about being “rich in love.” But the visuals go further—celebrating a kind of luxe that’s tactile, kitschy, and defiantly feminine. Think hydroponic love, cha-ching glamour, and block party couture.