Beyoncé and Solange Knowles have enjoyed successful music careers, but their mom pursued this career path long before. Tina Knowles-Lawson was part of a group called Veltones. "We were really good, but we were kind of known more for our costumes than we were for our entertainment," she told the New York Post. "And me and my mom made all the costumes."

Fans may be aware she was heavily involved in the fashion choices for Destiny's Child, the girl group starring Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams. But where did her inspiration come from? "We were big Motown fans, my ex-husband and I both. And so the girls looked at tapes of Motown, and that's where we got our inspiration," she told The Washington Post. "The costumes that they wore in those days, when you were sitting on the 30th row, you could see because there was some sparkle, and there was some dazzle, they looked like stars..." 

It's no secret that Destiny's Child's outfits stood out, thanks to Knowles-Lawson, despite record execs trying to get her to tone things down. She explained, "They said [the girls] needed to wear jeans and T-shirts. I took offense to it because I felt like the girls, in their splendor, were different, they were unique, they were unapologetically Black."