In their longline puffers and fashion flats, Dua Lipa and Elle Fanning have stumbled upon a failsafe formula for winter dressing.
Thoughts and prayers go out to Dua Lipa, a woman who spent a great proportion of 2023 on yachts and pool-side loungers and beachside balconies, but is now forced into returning to work. She might have worn triangle bikinis and sheer cover-ups to sail around the Peloponnese in Greece and off the coast of Ksamil, Albania, but Dua has since been photographed in a sensible dog-walking coat and some stolid jeans.
The siren-like vacation photographs have been replaced with one singular image teasing her upcoming album visuals: body wrapped in a Union Jack-printed Helmut Lang vest from 1994. Her blanketed puffer is somehow just as British. It makes me think of primary school teachers corralling children into a playground. Elle Fanning wore a similar coat while strolling through New York yesterday afternoon.