{{Short description|American actress and fashion designer}} {{pp-pc}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Kidada Jones | birth_name = Kidada Ann Jones | image = | birth_date = | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | education = Fashion Institute for Design and Merchandising (attended) | occupation = {{hlist|Actress|model|fashion designer}} | years_active = 1994–present | spouse = {{marriage|Jeffrey Nash<br/>|2003|2006|reason=div}} | partner = LL Cool J (1992–1994) <!-- (unmarried long-term partner) --> | parents = {{plain list| * Quincy Jones * Peggy Lipton }} | relatives = {{plain list| * Harold Lipton (grandfather) * Rashida Jones (sister) * Quincy Jones III (half-brother) * Kenya Kinski-Jones (half-sister) }} }}
'''Kidada Ann Jones''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ɪ|'|d|ɑː|d|ə|}} {{respell|kih|DAH|də}}<ref>{{Citation|title=Rashida and Kidada Jones on Throwing the Ultimate Sisters Soiree|date=12 December 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rCkbs2qvNM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/4rCkbs2qvNM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|publisher=Banana Republic|access-date=27 August 2019|via=Youtube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>) is an American actress, model, wardrobe stylist, and fashion designer. She works as a designer for The Walt Disney Company, and has a line there known as Kidada for Disney Couture. Jones is a daughter of record producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton.
==Early life and education== The elder daughter of the marriage between composer/arranger Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton,<ref>{{cite book|last=Lipton|first=Peggy|title=Breathing Out|publisher=St. Martin's Press|year=2005|pages=[https://archive.org/details/breathingout00lipt/page/15 15, 18]|url=https://archive.org/details/breathingout00lipt/page/15|isbn=978-0312324131|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite episode|title=Rashida Jones|series=Who Do You Think You Are?|network=NBC|date=4 May 2012|season=3|number=10}}</ref> Jones was born in Los Angeles, California. She is Jewish on her mother's side, and African-American on her father's side.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/19/archives/-bored-creatively-im-bored-but-.html|title='Bored? Creatively I'm Bored, But... '|last=Demist|first=Robert|date=March 19, 1972|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 24, 2018|archive-date=May 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513114320/http://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/19/archives/-bored-creatively-im-bored-but-.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=canyoudigit>{{Cite magazine|url=http://people.com/archive/can-you-dig-it-the-mod-squads-peggy-lipton-one-marriage-and-15-years-later-returns-to-acting-vol-29-no-13/|title=Can You Dig It? the Mod Squad's Peggy Lipton, One Marriage and 15 Years Later, Returns to Acting|last=Hutchings|first=David|date=April 4, 1988|magazine=PEOPLE|access-date=May 24, 2018|archive-date=September 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925065100/https://people.com/archive/can-you-dig-it-the-mod-squads-peggy-lipton-one-marriage-and-15-years-later-returns-to-acting-vol-29-no-13/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/jews-making-news-rashida-jones-isla-fisher/|title=Jews Making News: Rashida Jones, Isla Fisher|date=July 1, 2013|work=Atlanta Jewish Times|access-date=May 24, 2018|archive-date=May 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524223838/http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/jews-making-news-rashida-jones-isla-fisher/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://people.com/archive/quincy-jones-and-peggy-lipton-death-nearly-did-them-part-vol-3-no-10/|title=Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton: Death Nearly Did Them Part|last=Wilkins|first=Barbara|date=March 17, 1975|work=PEOPLE|access-date=May 24, 2018|archive-date=June 16, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250616081612/https://people.com/archive/quincy-jones-and-peggy-lipton-death-nearly-did-them-part-vol-3-no-10/|url-status=live}}</ref> Lipton's parents were Harold Lipton, a corporate lawyer, and Rita Benson, an artist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rashida Jones, Who do you think you are?|url=http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/rashida-jones-who-do-you-think-you-are/|author=Solitary Muser|year=2012|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-date=June 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629041720/http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/rashida-jones-who-do-you-think-you-are/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=canyoudigit/>
Jones was raised in Bel-Air with her younger sister Rashida, who is an actress and screenwriter. After her parents divorced when she was eleven, Jones lived with her father and her sister lived with their mother.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Quincy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zs1ixtkcJU8C&q=kidada |title=Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones |date=2002 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=978-0-7679-0510-7 |language=en}}</ref> Jones attended the Los Angeles Fashion Institute for Design and Merchandising and left at age 19 to work with the designer Tommy Hilfiger.<ref name="Heynman" />
==Career== Jones began working as a celebrity stylist for her father's publication ''Vibe'' magazine. She gained attention when she styled pop star Michael Jackson for the cover of ''Vibe'' in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/kidada-jones-is-one-of-the-most-underrated-people-behind-black-cool/|title=Kidada Jones Is One of the Most Underrated People Behind 'Black Cool'|last=Ngangura|first=Tari|date=6 March 2018|website=Vice|language=en-CA|access-date=11 July 2019|archive-date=July 22, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250722001816/https://www.vice.com/en/article/kidada-jones-is-one-of-the-most-underrated-people-behind-black-cool/|url-status=live}}</ref> She was recruited by designer Tommy Hilfiger, who launched a successful ad campaign centered on Jones and a group of her friends (including Aaliyah, Tamia, Kate Hudson, Nicole Richie, and Oliver Hudson). She worked as his muse for eight years.<ref name="Heynman"/> Jones' fashion work included designing a clothing line for Snoop Dogg for three years.<ref name="Heynman"/> Jones also appeared during this period as a model in such fashion magazines as ''Elle'', ''Vogue,'' and ''Harper's Bazaar''.
Since 2005, Jones has been working with The Walt Disney Company, designing for Kidada for Disney Couture. ''W'' magazine described this as "a line of clothing and jewelry for adults sold at boutiques" and said that Jones acts "as a conduit to hip tastemakers the brand might otherwise miss".<ref name="Heynman"/> According to Jim Calhoun, Disney's executive vice president of consumer products, North America, "Kidada is not just one of those people that points out what's cool. She has a real hand in making things cool."<ref name="Heynman"/> She also consults on Disney projects.
In 2017, Jones published ''School of Awake'', a book meant to empower young girls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newworldlibrary.com/Books/ProductDetails/tabid/64/SKU/84588/Default.aspx|title=SCHOOL OF AWAKE|website=New World Library|access-date=5 July 2018|archive-date=July 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704212848/http://www.newworldlibrary.com/Books/ProductDetails/tabid/64/SKU/84588/Default.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jones also appeared on Oprah Winfrey's ''Super Soul Sunday''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/kidada-jones-school-of-awake-video|title=Kidada Jones' School of Awake|website=Super Soul Sunday|publisher=Harpo Productions|access-date=5 July 2018|archive-date=July 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704182750/http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/kidada-jones-school-of-awake-video|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal life== Jones dated rapper and actor LL Cool J from 1992 to 1994.<ref>{{cite news|last=Goldman|first=Andrew|title=The Pop Diplomacy of Quincy Jones|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/the-pop-diplomacy-of-quincy-jones.html|access-date=26 April 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 September 2012|archive-date=December 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121205204044/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/the-pop-diplomacy-of-quincy-jones.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In his autobiography, ''I Make My Own Rules'', LL Cool J stated that he ended their relationship because they "didn't believe the same things".<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=LL Cool J |url=http://archive.org/details/imakemyownrules0000llco |title=I Make My Own Rules |publisher=New York, NY : St. Martin's Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-312-17110-0 |pages=153–154}}</ref> "She praised a guru and statues, and I praise God," he said.<ref name=":2" />
Jones dated rapper and actor Tupac Shakur in 1996.<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/1997/03/tupac-shakur-rap-death|title=To Die Like A Gangsta|last=Anson|first=Robert Sam|date=March 1997|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=12 July 2018|language=en|archive-date=May 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519203108/https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/1997/03/tupac-shakur-rap-death|url-status=live}}</ref> They lived together for four months until his death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Quincy |url=http://archive.org/details/qautobiographyof00jone |title=Q : the autobiography of Quincy Jones |date=2001 |publisher=New York : Doubleday |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-385-48896-9 |pages=249}}</ref> She was in their Las Vegas hotel room when he was shot on September 7, 1996,<ref name=":0" /> and she was at the hospital with Shakur when he died from his injuries six days later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2qADD7VpXk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/U2qADD7VpXk |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Kurupt, Kevin Powell Relive Hearing Tupac Might Die|website=Death Row Chronicles|date=February 22, 2018 |publisher=BET Network|access-date=12 July 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
In 1999, Jones dated actor Leonardo DiCaprio.<ref>{{cite web|last=LaCroix|first=Emy|title=Quincy Jones' 7 Children: Everything to Know|url=https://people.com/parents/all-about-quincy-jones-kids/|access-date=June 16, 2023|website=People|date=May 19, 2023|archive-date=June 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616135808/https://people.com/parents/all-about-quincy-jones-kids/|url-status=live}}</ref> She was married to actor Jeffrey Nash from 2003 until 2006.<ref name="Heynman">{{cite news|url=http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2008/08/kidada_jones |author=Heyman, Marshall Heyman| title=Not Kidding Around; Designer Kidada Jones has found fulfillment in an unlikely role: making Disney cool for grown-ups|magazine=W Magazine|date= August 2008|access-date= 3 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722001146/https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2008/08/kidada_jones|archive-date=July 22, 2008}}</ref>
Jones had a close friendship with singer and actress Aaliyah whom she met while modeling for Tommy Hilfiger.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Iandoli |first=Kathy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1M5EAAAQBAJ&dq=aaliyah+kidada+tommy+hilfiger&pg=PA98 |title=Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-9821-5684-8 |pages=98 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Aaliyah met her best friend Kidada Jones while they were modelling for Tommy Hilfiger. |url=https://www.capitalxtra.com/features/lists/aaliyah-facts/best-friend-kidada-jones/ |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=Capital XTRA |language=en |archive-date=June 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615073612/https://www.capitalxtra.com/features/lists/aaliyah-facts/best-friend-kidada-jones/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> They remained friends until Aaliyah's death in August 2001.
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