Tape me up & throw me out there...
The semi-reclusive Lorde has come out of hiding – and said it’s high time she got out and about a bit more.
The Kiwi star, 25, reveals she stopped using social media for her mental health. She told Vogue Australia: “Your own sense of image and self is developing, and I felt very protective of that and I didn’t want other people’s weird sh** to get cooked into that.
“It is a priority for me to keep working. I think that’s something that will make me feel fulfilled.
“Because I’ve realised this about myself: I could just be here, in the garden forever and never come out. But I should. And I do.”
The Covid pandemic stopped us all in our tracks, and now musicians are looking back on this very strange period to interpret it through music. Step forward Florence Welch (of + the Machine fame) who has announced a new song, Heaven Is Here, which is intentionally created to help us all dance off the blues.
Debuting the all singing, all dancing track yesterday, she said: “I wanted to make something monstrous. And this clamour of joy, fury and grief was the first thing that came out.”
Like Taylor Swift once suggested, maybe we all need to just Shake It Off.
Who says high fashion is rubbish? Well at Paris Fashion Week one major brand debuted a designer bin bag – said to cost £2,300.
And the biggest fan Balenciaga’s dumpsterdiving line for autumn/ winter 2022?
Kim Kardashian, who turned up at Sunday’s show clad in a branded yellow police-style tape, alongside actress Salma Hayek, who was dressed in the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s flag.
Reality star Kim pushed the bad taste look further when she filmed herself online unwrapping a gift from Balenciaga.
The big reveal was that the gift was a haute couture handbag made to look like a black rubbish bin liner. She said: “How cool is this? I love this trash-bag bag.”
If this trend seems insensitive as refugees flee their homes carrying bags, Demna, creative director at Balenciaga, would like you to know the pieces are in homage to people suffering in the Ukraine war.
As reported by Vogue, Demna was a childhood refugee in the Georgian civil war, and said he was drawing on his past. He said the show was dedicated to “fearlessness, resistance and victory of love and peace”.
So is he making an important political statement to the fashion world elite or simply playing around with poverty cos-play?
It all still screams the Derelicte line from Zoolander to me…