Lily Allen wears receipt dress with David Harbor diss track lyrics on ‘West End Girl’ tour
Lily Allen’s newest revenge dress comes with a paper path.
The singer, 40, kicked off her “West End Girl” tour at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Monday, performing her David Harbor breakup album in a sequence of costumes that hit simply as arduous because the lyrics.
During “4Chan Stan,” Allen wrapped herself in an extended swath of material printed with handwritten lyrics and receipts from tequila bars and Bergdorf Goodman — the latter a direct nod to the track, by which she discovers her husband purchased one other girl a dear purse on the luxurious division retailer.
Allen wore the damning “dress” over the customized Self-Portrait ruffled sheer lace bodysuit, burgundy patent sizzling pants, Agent Provocateur bra, Calzedonia fishnet tights and Christian Louboutin pumps she’d debuted through the earlier points.
The present’s seems to be have been styled by Mel Ottenberg, the Interview journal editor-in-chief, who said on Instagram that Allen “got me out of tour styling retirement 20 years after I first styled her.” Makeup artist Aimée Twist and hairstylist Ross Kwan rounded out the glam group, with Kwan sculpting Allen’s hair right into a bouffant with bangs for the present.
She carried out all 14 tracks from the album — broadly understood to chronicle the breakdown of her marriage to the “Stranger Things” actor, 50 — biking via six seems to be over the 45-minute set, every tailor-made to a distinct chapter of the report’s narrative.
For “Madeline” — the track concerning the mystery woman she found in her husband’s textual content messages — Allen carried out in a sheer Valentino negligee paired with Araks bra and underwear and marabou-trimmed Manito silk gown on a pink-lit stage.
She emerged in a pink tweed Valentino skirt swimsuit with an outsized black bow on the prime of the set and turned into a black leather-based bullet-bra bustier dress by 16Arlington — whose runway show Allen walked in November — for “Beg For Me.”
During “Pussy Palace,” Allen sang from a mattress onstage, a Duane Reade bag beside her — mirroring the track’s lyrics about discovering a shoebox full of affection letters from different girls.
The pop star beforehand carried out two tracks from the album on “Saturday Night Live” in December and dressed as the youngsters’s e book character Madeline for Halloween — a pointed wink on the album’s “other woman.”
Allen has since moved on with Jonah Freuda 28-year-old London-based author and artist and the great-great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, whom she confirmed as her boyfriend in a recent Grazia UK interview.
The tour continues throughout the UK via March earlier than heading to North America in April.
