Couture Week is a spring of sartorial creativity that celebrities, designers, and front-row insiders all collect spherical to drink from. The costume code? Go large or go dwelling. Naturally, it is sensible that Jennifer Lopez suits in so effectively.
Lopez doesn’t do small. We’re speaking about the identical girl who [checks notes] created a complete J.Lo cinematic universe as a testomony to her love for Ben Affleck, sang “Let’s Get Loud” for President Joe Biden’s inauguration, and possibly owns as many Swarovski crystal bling cups as she does Hermès Birkin baggage.
She can be a typical front-row fixture at Trend Month, and eventually made her long-awaited return to the high fashion scene this Monday for Schiaparelli’s Spring/Summer time 2024 present. In Schiaparelli style, she arrived on the venue trying like a chunk of artwork that had jumped off the wall of the Louvre and determined to affix in on the festivities.
Her shaggy white coat was really made out of “7,000 actual rose petals stored contemporary and alive by sugar water,” she later revealed on Instagram. Schiaparelli’s signature motifs recurred all through the ensemble, too, from the keyhole-shaped pendants adorning the toes of her pumps to the surrealist gold-frame sun shades that shielded her eyes from hordes of paparazzi.
In the event you’re pondering that J.Lo is dressed like the primary character, that’s as a result of she is the primary character—of her personal film.
Lest we overlook, her fantastical curation of couture appears occurs to overlap with the latest information of her newest (and in addition fantastical) venture, an album/movie dubbed This Is Me … Now: A Love Story. “We captured me at this second in time once I was reunited with the love of my life, and we determined we had been going to be collectively perpetually,” she defined in 2022. “The entire message of the album, then, is: This love exists. It is a actual love.”
For the uninitiated, the This Is Me … Now film has been billed as a “genre-redefining immersive cinematic expertise,” its contents being mined straight “from the center, soul, and goals of Jennifer Lopez.” The trailer showcases a hodgepodge of concepts—half self-serious rom-com, half steampunk musical, half Lifetime thriller, it doesn’t respect self-imposed artistic limitations, very similar to J.Lo herself. (And if that’s not sufficient, count on cameos by celebrities from Fats Joe and Keke Palmer to Put up Malone, Sofía Vergara, and naturally—the Dunkin’ ambassador himself—Ben Affleck.)
In a approach, Couture Week doubles as Lopez’s This Is Me … Now promo tour, along with her wondrously extravagant type maintaining us eagerly anticipating what’s to return subsequent.
’At yesterdays Elie Saab present, we will simply think about Lopez’s ethereal mossy-green robe and cape of purple and olive feather boas because the outfit she wears throughout a wistful fairy-tale musical quantity. And her take a look at the Valentino present, which featured bows on bows on bows, is clearly the ensemble she’d put on throughout a reunion of star-crossed lovers on the movie’s climax.
Even Lopez’s off-duty appears demanded to be paid consideration to. On one event, she stepped out of her Paris lodge in vibrant white cargo pants, a creamy fur jacket with caramel highlights, and an array of ’00s-esque equipment (together with diamond-encrusted hoop earrings and oversize amber-tinted shades). It was as if she had been reminding us she’s nonetheless Jenny From the Block—however, most likely even higher.
As an affiliate editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com, Chelsey retains a finger on the heart beat on all issues celeb information. She additionally writes on social actions, connecting with activists main the battle on staff’ rights, local weather justice, and extra. Offline, she’s most likely spending an excessive amount of time on TikTok, rewatching Emma (the 2020 model, in fact), or shopping for one more corset.
