Dua Lipa took her love for Y2K vogue and kicked it up a notch throughout her “Future Nostalgia” tour. Giving us main déjà vu, Lipa posed backstage in a Blumarine denim maxi costume, evoking Britney Spears’s iconic Kurt and Bart patchwork costume from the 2001 American Music Awards purple carpet. Whereas Spears’s outfit was styled to match Justin Timberlake’s all-denim go well with and cowboy hat, Lipa owned the look all by herself, putting a sequence of poses for photographer Elizabeth Miranda.
Not like Spears’s costume, Lipa’s featured a skinny pair of spaghetti straps and a low-cut bustier embellished with metallic studs below the cups. The studs trailed down Lipa’s costume in parallel strains alongside the seams, splitting into inverted V shapes earlier than plunging into the folds of her sweeping practice.
Lipa’s stylist, Lorenzo Posocco, paired the ensemble with a bejeweled cross necklace and a Blumarine denim belt embellished with the model’s signature B rather than a buckle. Lipa additionally rocked rhinestone eyeshadow that superbly complemented the studs alongside the costume. Earlier this month, the “Potion” singer had one other notable denim second in a micro miniskirt from Diesel’s fall 2022 assortment. She paired the distinctive design with knee-high, cherry-red boots; a customized white thong that learn “dua”; and a ribbed, off-the-shoulder prime in blue.
Greater than 20 years later, Spears and Timberlake’s matching second stays one of the crucial memorable in vogue historical past, and Lipa’s tribute — intentional or not — is all of the motivation we have to proceed re-creating our favourite stars’ Y2K purple carpet appears to be like. Cue Anne Hathaway replicating her personal “The Satan Wears Prada” outfit, Ariana Grande in Jenna Rink’s traditional “13 Happening 30” look, and extra.
See Lipa’s beautiful denim second right here and Spears’s 2001 look forward.
