By Leah Dolan, NCS
(NCS) — Swedish musician Robyn’s dwell efficiency Thursday of “Sexistential” — the title observe of her new album to be launched in March — started in a shoulder stand with legs in the air. The reality she was sporting high-waisted crimson leather-based pants barely appeared to register as she rolled herself supine and started to writhe round the stage. Nothing, particularly not a constrictive outfit, will preserve the off-beat performer from transferring how she needs to.
The placing routine on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert provided a sneak peak of Robyn’s new file, her first since 2018. The singer’s outfit — rib-grazing leather-based trousers, a white cotton t-shirt topped with black leather-based waistcoat embroidered with gold swirling patterns, and a single embellished elbow-length glove — was from Italian designer Dario Vitale’s one and solely assortment for Versace earlier than his shock exit in December. It was “uncomplicated elegance, unbound by inhibition,” in response to the Versace press launch. There was little doubt about the latter half. But the class on this quirky look did really feel difficult, difficult even, to absorb at first look. It was a bit of bit punk rock by approach of Chrissie Hynde, very Eighties Giovanni Versace, with a splash of Michael Jackson seen in the solo glittering glove.
Vitale’s debut assortment was one of the most anticipated of final season, and was lauded by critics as daring, unique and delightfully wacky. He rejected a imaginative and prescient of Versace that was secure in phrases of industrial viability, and as a substitute provided up one thing extra sudden. It appears becoming then that his garments have been chosen by Robyn — a determine who has lengthy cultivated a madcap sense of style herself. While newcomers to Robyn could be bewildered at her sartorial path, longtime followers will bear in mind a lot of zany crimson carpet appearances over the years – corresponding to in 2011, when she arrived in a peach-toned kimono, two white leather-based belts, painted striped capri-length leggings and inexperienced Prada canvas open-toed brogues with a wedge platform heel. For the MoMA backyard occasion in 2016, Robyn opted for a sequined ‘70s style jumpsuit by designer Michael Halpern during which one leg was a special sample to the relaxation of the piece. Hers has all the time been a vogue palette constructed on clashing.
But Robyn’s puzzling Versace outfit Thursday started to make higher sense as she sang the equally disorienting lyrics to “Sexistential,” a music which bounces between her struggles with IVF, being sexy for Adam Driver and her spending habits on Etsy.
Of course, the point of interest was the firetruck-red pants: a sexual middle of gravity that Robyn ran her hand over, thrusted and splayed her legs in. It’s the playbook of Hynde, Joan Jett and Marianne Faithful — however with a straight leg as a substitute of pores and skin tight, for that all-important room to bop.
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