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Cut it like Kylie
Ahead of the launch of her new album, Golden, the Aussie pop icon reflects on an incredible 30 years in showbiz
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With a new album out this month, a tour starting in the autumn and a milestone birthday coming up in May, 2018 is shaping up to be a big year for Kylie Minogue.
The Australian, who’s called London home since 2011, says the new album, Golden, is as much about looking to the future as reflecting on the past, when we meet at the launch of her second eyewear collection with Specsavers.
And after 30 years in entertainment, Kylie knows a thing or two about fashion and fame. Here’s what the pop princess had to say about looking back and moving forward.
Asked if she considers trends when designing for Specsavers, she said: “I don’t know if I go so much with fashion, or just more of a feeling.
Certainly with the pink and bluetinted lenses - I think Specsavers did it just to quieten me down because I was driving them mad. I said: ‘Please, please, please can we have them?’
“I want people of all ages to be able to find something in the collection that works for them.”
When it comes to clothing, Kylie revealed there are certain looks she has no intention of ever returning to.
“There’s some stuff I probably would like to do again, but it doesn’t work for me now,” she said. “But I don’t think you’ll catch me in a crop top again!”
Will we be seeing more of the cowgirl style from the Golden video on her tour?
“Yeah, we’re going to have fun with that,” she said. “It’s going to be great, I cant wait! There’s going to be rhinestone and fringing at the the same time!”
It’s not only the cowboy clothing that Kylie likes as she revealed she loved the recording process, too.
“I literally loved every minute of it,” she said. “There aren’t that many experiences you can say that about. I arrived at the airport and there was a guy playing guitar and singing before you’d even left the terminal.
“It was just that feeling of excitement and knowing we were there for music.”
After a tough year last year, when she broke off her engagement to British actor Joshua Sasse, she revealed that she finds songwriting cathartic.
“It’s free therapy!” she enthused. “When I started working on the album, I was just getting it all off my chest, and I’m kind of thankful now that the songs weren’t very good.
It was good to just purge and then move onto writing songs that were not about some ONE, but about me.
“This is about where I am in my life looking back, but also looking forward.”
So, the big 5-0. How does she feel about that?
“I feel mostly good,” she revealed. “If anything’s slowing the ship down and is just old news, get rid of it, so you can get through smoother and more efficiently to where you want to go.
“Other things about getting older are not so much fun, like you’ve got to take care of your body a bit more, so ask me at the end of tour how I went. We’ll see!”