THIS IS NOT THE WAY THIS SUMMER WAS MEANT TO GO. Supposedly not for any of us, neither the cover star on ELLE UK August 2020 issue, Kosovar-Albanian born, London based Dua Lipa: her much anticipated new album Future Nostalgia was planned for release in April, and it followed up the world tours and earth travelling, and now, nobody was going anywhere.
Meanwhile, in at our own reading room, out in the locked-down world, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia breaking the record on the day of its release. The album provides a brighter and merrier restriction free future—or maybe past. Dua Lipa was having interview for ELLE August issue with Melisa Giannini via ZOOM at her London apartment, stating that the people will be ‘more empathetic. We’ll make moments count. We won’t take anything for granted” (73). Dua Lipa and her family also run Sunny Hill, a foundation supports the vulnerable Kosovo locals.
Talking about the new music, Boys Will Be Boys, one of the most serious tracks from her second album Future Nostalgia, Lipa says the song is about growing pains and personal experiences as being a woman: we’ve all trying to avoid confrontation or please to fit in certain social behaviour, in order to feel secured. At her first smash hit IDGAF, the lyrics portrait the confident attitude toward the breakup, perhaps it’s also what Lipa told Giannini that during the lockdown, not just only the break we take, it’s also a unforgettable opportunities to regard what we’ve done to our relationships and Mother Earth. Her carry-on spirits show between the lines, altogether under the lenses of Photographer Zoey Grossman, Dua Lipa’s wearing black breastplate by Tom Ford, shines her lovely, authentic and intelligent human being. Since her breaking fun single IDGAF released, I’ve been humming the tunes now and then, always in love of its funky but pop melody. My first purchase of Dua Lipa covering ELLE UK August issue in 2020, is definitely one of the most enjoyable reading journey after quite a long absent term of magazine famine.
Besides Dua Lipa interview, ELLE UK August issue surprises me the most, is its montage layouts at ELLE; The New Season. The well-edited in both information and colour palette, from p. 75-119, The ELLE Guide AW 2020,virtually a mini version of Marie Claire Runway Collection: There is a glimpse of Chanel catwalk, the backstage snaps of beauty ideas, the close-up of accessories, the centerfold of treading hues and multi street styles shots to copy for. The information at every page turn is as equal as fulfilled with the fashion images; additionally, for the lack of designer brands’ marketing budgets due to the pandemic strike, ELLE UK August 2020 carries merely 146 pages in total, presents more of a mini version of AW collection special issue, with less weight but more wonders.
As for photography, following the cover tones of poppy red, off-white and Dua Lipa’s skin tone, I first adapt Chanel 2018 Christmas camellias to cover the price tag at bottom left, and the shining gold-tone of acetate materials can bring up the natural lightening at flat-lay angle. Since Dua Lipa also a huge fan of House of Chanel, therefore, placing Le Rouge N° 4 on the left side of the cover girl and CHANEL N°5 L’EAU Eau de toilette mini twist on the top, a detailed techniques combining both red and white hues. Furthermore, CHAO&EERO fresh water pearl rings, Chanel AW 2020 glass pearl earrings and dried rose buds are also the lovely gadgets to enhance the vibe of ELLE UK August issue; last but not the least, I complete the whole look by adding Chanel travel size skincare and the tube of N°5 L’EAU mini twist in order to make the cover shooting more of geometrical pleasure.
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