To say that Dua Lipa‘s life has modified over the previous few years could be a critical understatement. After the 2020 launch of her second full-length album, Future Nostalgia, the London-born pop singer was catapulted into superstardom. Landing on the very begin of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the world was compelled to close down and keep put, the album made Lipa a family title—with tens of millions of followers and billions of streams on Spotify—and have become a supply of get-up-and groove positivity when issues felt something however constructive. “It was the disco album that individuals listened to of their kitchen,” says Lipa. “[When it came out], we have been in a pandemic, so I used to be at residence, and I believed, ‘Cool, everyone seems to be listening to my music.’ But I didn’t actually perceive simply how many individuals [were listening].”
We just lately met up with the Grammy-winning star in Paris at an intimate gathering to have a good time the launch of YSL Beauty’s Libre Le Parfum, a sister scent to Libre, the fragrance that kicked off Lipa’s position as a model ambassador. A heat floral that—like its predecessor—attracts on notes of lavender and orange blossom, this new iteration additionally has a wealthy saffron accord for a daring, surprising hit of spice. “I wore the unique Libre perfume for a very long time,” says Lipa. “I’ve at all times been a one-perfume-for-everything form of lady, however Libre Le Parfum has actually broadened my horizons because it presents a brand new [olfactory] temper and stays on for thus lengthy. By the time you’re performed dancing on the finish of the evening, you continue to scent actually good.”
While musing about how her mum’s comforting scent impressed her to have her personal go-to eau—“She smells like how I like my fragrance: contemporary, a bit woody and never too floral”—Lipa additionally shared the position that perfume performs in getting her into the proper headspace to carry out in packed arenas evening after evening. “I like to put fragrance on earlier than I’m going onstage,” she says.“It’s nearly like a soundtrack that dictates a spot, time and temper. Whenever you scent that scent once more, it [brings you right back].”
The partnership between Lipa and YSL Beauty is a no brainer—not solely due to the performer’s impeccable private fashion but in addition as a result of the style home is understood for its boundary-breaking juxtapositions of the masculine and the female and Lipa is not any stranger to exploring either side of her persona. “I’ve needed to do extra nurturing of my female facet as my masculine facet has been simpler for me to faucet into,” she says. Working in a male-dominated business has taught Lipa tips on how to maintain her personal in any state of affairs she’s thrown into. “I’ve at all times felt like I’ve needed to have this toughness and energy with a view to be heard particularly for songwriting, as a result of numerous producers are males—so my masculine facet carries me right into a room.”
As the 27-year-old’s star energy retains rising, so does the general public’s notion of her. But even now that she’s achieved a powerful degree of success, Lipa nonetheless has no regrets about being trustworthy and clear in her songwriting. “Very early on in my profession, I simply form of let go of the what-ifs, and I [continue] to place all of it on the market and dive into my private experiences once I write,” she says. “I needed to let go of the scary considered what folks may assume with a view to get into the actually trustworthy bits about myself. I feel give up has been a giant subject for me this 12 months.”
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