Dua Lipa Wears Everything First: A Look at Her Coolest Outfits
When ranking pop music's most fashionable acts, Dua Lipa is, without a doubt, within the top 5. The singer has "arrived" in a big way this year after serving alongside Penélope Cruz, Michaela Coel, Roger Federer, and Anna Wintour as co-chair of this week's Met Gala. After all, not everyone gets the chance to help plan one of fashion's biggest nights. But the invitation is a no-brainer if you've kept tabs on Lipa's style.
Simply put, the English singer is a fashion person in every sense of the word. Take her Instagram, for example. Lipa is a prolific outfit documented. Her feed is full of photos documenting the outfits she's worn for her international tour, during fashion week, and on random vacations. It's clear Lipa enjoys experimenting with clothes. Few other artists can rival the number of outfit photos Lipa posts. It's also clear that she, or someone on her team, has a knack for discovering up-and-coming brands. In digging through Lipa's archive of fashion photos, I found she seems to wear indie brands just as often as big-name designers. She was one of the first people to wear Fancì Club's viral Garden of Eden dress and among the first to wear other emerging labels like No Dress, KNWLS, and Louisa Ballou. It could be (and very likely is) that designers send Lipa these amazing clothes themselves. Still, it says a lot that she can spot the pieces and brands that later become cult favorites.
But along with supporting small brands, the singer is also a mainstay on the fashion week circuit, sitting front row at Saint Laurent and Versace. She's also close friends with Simon Porte Jacquemus (she attended his wedding), so it's safe to say she'll never be short on good clothes. Lately, Lipa's outfit snaps have been on another level, so I've documented the best for posterity's sake. Let the outfit replication begin!
Outfit 1: A Night Out With Fancì Club
Lipa is known to hop on viral fashion pieces before they've hit the mainstream, and it was no different when she wore Fancì Club's ruffled Garden of Eden dress last year. Paired with cerulean D'Accori satin platform heels, it's a match made in vacation-outfit heaven.
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Outfit 2: Yachting in Proenza Schouler
Truthfully? I've had this photo saved for months in hopes of buying this set for myself someday. Then I saw the $5,000+ price tag. For a trip down under, the pop star wore a glittering gold crochet set straight off Proenza Schouler's S/S 23 runway. She wore it months before it was released in stores (ah, the perks of being a fashion darling). Maybe it's the Lipa effect, but the cardigan and pants are sold out, so I've also included a similarly striking option below.
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But if you prefer the original...
Outfit 3: Cool in Courrèges
Call it a bias, but if I spot someone wearing Courrèges, I instantly think they're cool. When I saw Lipa in this lemon-yellow skirt set from the French house, it felt like the apex of cool. Courrèges' coated jackets and skirts aren't cheap, but they are a good investment. They've been a staple for the brand since being introduced in the '60s, and they haven't really changed. They can also fetch top dollar on the resale market.
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Outfit 4: A Touch of Parisian Glamour
Lipa wore a halter-neck jumpsuit and a cascading Saint Laurent leather trench coat for the designer's F/W 23 show in March. Evidently, she's a pro at seamlessly oscillating between high fashion and street style.
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Outfit 5: A Miu Miu Muse
Everyone wants to be in Miu Miu right now. The brand is the moment. Lipa took one of its signature leather sets for a spin in Mexico City, pairing it with a cropped button-down shirt. Distressed leather with this type of shirt isn't a combo you see every day, but it's a worthwhile one to note if you're in the mood to take a sartorial risk.
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Outfit 6: Color-Blocking in CDMX
This is another outfit Lipa documented during her Mexico City trip. She wore Nodress's tangerine ruffled top with oxblood-colored pants and tangerine pumps. The singer is a great reference point for unexpected color pairings.
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Outfit 7: Loud Prints + Lace-up Tops
As a resident cool girl, it shouldn't surprise you that Lipa has worn underground favorite KNWLS. The brand is known for grungy prints and risque silhouettes with a hint of Y2K edge. Its subversive approach has won it a cult following among It-girls like Lipa.
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Outfit 8: '90s Minimalism
Minimalism doesn't have to be boring. Take Lipa's seductive, see-through outfit with revenge heels to match, for example. The exposed bra peeking out from under her sheer top adds visual interest.
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Outfit 9: An Ode to Summer Blazers
If you ever doubted a blazer could work in warm weather, here's your proof. The trick is to go for pieces in light fabrics like linen and raffia for an easy summertime feel. As the king of elevated resort wear, Jacquemus's one-button blazer nails it perfectly.
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Indya Brown is a fashion editor, stylist, and writer living in Los Angeles. While going to school at Columbia University in New York City, she got her feet wet in the fashion industry interning at Elle magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and New York magazine's The Cut. After graduating in 2016, she joined The Cut as a fashion assistant, eventually working her way up to fashion editor. There, she worked on a multitude of projects, including styling inbook feature stories for New York magazine's print issue, writing and pitching market stories for The Cut, and serving as fashion lead for The Cut's branded content. While New York has been her home for over 10 years, she moved to Los Angeles in the midst of the pandemic in 2020 for a new chapter. Now she is a fashion market editor for Who What Wear, focusing on emerging designers, rising trends on and off the internet, interior design, and BIPOC creatives and brands. Aside from her duties as a fashion market editor, Brown is also a freelance stylist and writer, working on national print and video commercial campaigns for Sephora, The Independent, and Cadillac. Her bylines also include Harper's Bazaar, Vox, and The New York Times. But once the computer goes down and the emails turn off, she's likely eating her way through Koreatown, hunting down vintage furniture, scoping out new outrageous nail designs to try, or taking a hot cycling class.
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