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Dua Lipa’s “We’re Good” Music Video is a Lesson in Runway History
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It’s no secret popstar Dua Lipa has served up a bevy of on-point looks over the course of the past few months. We can thank her stylist Lorenzo Posocco for all the style inspo, however Lipa dazzles in her latest music video “We’re Good,” released last night from her second album “Future Nostalgia.”
The singer describes the song on Apple Music to Zane Lowe,
“I don’t even know how you explain it or how you would start to describe what a song like that is” said Lipa on the track. “I think the content of the song is really interesting. It’s having that amicable breakup that I think everybody kind of wants. It’s like that clean break isn’t lacking, move on. We’re good. You can’t be upset if I move on. I can’t be upset if you move on.”
The clever video produced by Sly is filled with references from the Roaring ’20s taking the 2020s back to the preceding century where the singer stars as a ship singer on the infamous Titanic directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, where guests are entertained as they are served lobster dinners.
The video opens with a pastel rococo work of art, the painting is The Abduction of Europa by Noel-Nicolas Coypel (1726-1727). It’s the violent Greek mythological story of Zeus transforming himself into a white bull to seduce Europa. Unknowingly, Europa hops on the bull and swam to the island of Crete where she was raped and made queen of the island. The constellation Taurus, the astrological bull is in her honor after this tale. The music video takes place on a journey on the rattling sea decoding a harsh encounter, that isn’t meant to be like the song. For the astrological reference of the Taurus, the outfits to come are immensely glamourous like the sign’s taste for the finer things in life.
Other than the popstar herself, lobsters sporting cute bows make their fashionable moment. The lobster has its famous moment in fashion when Elsa Schiaparelli designed a white organza dress with a painted lobster by artist Salvator Dali in 1937. Dali’s lobster was a symbol for the Freudian castration theory. The lobster is credited to Sigmund Freud’s psychological ideas linking a lobster to the hidden desires and feelings in the unconscious mind. A perfect link to a woman’s perspective in the song’s touching meaning on feeling trapped in a relationship.
Perhaps the greatest spectacle of the entire video, Posocco pulled archival Prada outfits Miuccia Prada and Catherine Martin designed for Baz Luhrmann’s (2013) film The Great Gatsby in an effort to evoke a ’20s high-fashion feel. In “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the outfits described in his novel as “shimmering silk gowns embroidered with crystals and sequins; velvets, furs and dancing fringing; flickering shades of emerald, jade, topaz and gold,” inspiring Prada’s looks. The modern 1920s glamour is repurposed for the video in fantastical sequins, crystals, velvet in shades of cream, green and black. It’s about appreciating the 1920s without completely mimicking the period in historical costume. Lipa graces the “chandelier dress” from Prada spring 2010 which is the same as Daisy’s party dress. The illumination show Daisy as the most beautiful and richest woman transforms onto Lipa. Except the popstar makes her own interpretation of the garment by wearing the dress backwards, this can be a sign of jealously, Lipa the wearer knows people are jealous of her- who wouldn’t be? While backwards dressing of an iconic dress is her own reworking her album theme of nostalgia back to herself.
The most luxurious ship in history the Titanic is the inspiration behind Lipa’s video. The ship sank on April 15, 1912 but the pop star and lobsters make their exit into their long-desired freedom. No longer are the lobsters cut and eaten, they’re free into the sea. The video isn’t entirely fabricated fantasy, you’ll catch the Titanic survivor Margaret Brown (played by Kathy Bates in the Titanic film in James Cameron’s film) who coordinated with first-class passengers to help the lower-class passengers survive make a cameo shot.
Watch the video for “We’re Good,” and see the powerful references for yourself.
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