Dua Lipa’s New Red Hair Took More Than 10 Hours to Achieve — Interview

Effectively earlier than YSL Beauté can formally announce Dua Lipa as the brand new face of its international cosmetics assortment within the spring, all people has a couple of issues to do, specifically a secret photograph shoot and a collection of interviews in New York Metropolis through the last days of fall.

After I arrive simply on time for my very own slice of face time with Lipa, issues are working fashionably late. It’s not a logistical nightmare as a result of nightmares aren’t actual. Pulling off a clandestine shoot with one of many world’s most well-known girls in one among its most densely populated cities for an announcement that can happen months later is extra of a logistical bomb cyclone, which is probably why the shoot is sheltered within the geometric middle of a studio constructing downtown, away from prying gazes and past the sunshine of day. My entry to a room labeled “YVES SAINT LAURENT” with paper signage is initially denied, however moments later, the doorways open to launch an entourage of a minimum of 10 individuals, all trying creatively exhausted — at their middle is Dua Lipa, wearing a large number of distinct shades of black. She doesn’t appear drained.

After being escorted to a different, much more personal room, Lipa settles onto a sofa reverse a shaded window for a collection of quick interviews with magnificence press equivalent to myself; her legs are crossed and her exquisitely tailor-made wool pants finish in pointy patent-leather pumps. “I really feel just like the Saint Laurent lady walks a effective line between masculine and female,” Lipa tells me. “I really like a boyish model as properly.” She says a number of instances that she loves duality. She is stumped solely briefly once I ask her who probably the most stunning particular person she’s ever met is. “I meet stunning individuals the entire time,” she says to close by publicists, sounding gently frazzled for lack of a direct reply.

Within the higher context of her profession — London teen to cocktail waitress to up-and-coming recording artist to well-known musician with a world cosmetics contract — the present second is a transitional one for Lipa. If earworm hits equivalent to 2017’s “New Guidelines” gained her worldwide recognition, her 2020 album Future Nostalgia solidified her as a determine price stanning. Her involvement with the Barbie movie (she performed a mermaid and contributed a now-hit music) saved her on press excursions all through 2023, which have seamlessly coincided with pre-press for her different new movie (a visitor function in Argylle) and yet-to-be-announced third album (teased by the disco single “Houdini”).