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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 within the air. The truth she was carrying excessive-waisted crimson leather-based pants barely appeared to register as she rolled herself supine and started to writhe across the stage. Nothing, particularly not a constrictive outfit, will preserve the off-beat performer from shifting how she desires to.
The hanging routine on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert supplied a sneak peak of Robyn’s new report, 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-size 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 keeping with the Versace press launch. There was little doubt concerning the latter half. But the class on this quirky look did really feel difficult, difficult even, to soak up at first look. It was a bit of bit punk rock by approach of Chrissie Hynde, very Eighties Giovanni Versace, with a touch of Michael Jackson seen within the solo glittering glove.
Vitale’s debut assortment was one of essentially the most anticipated of final season, and was lauded by critics as daring, authentic and delightfully wacky. He rejected a imaginative and prescient of Versace that was secure in phrases of business viability, and as an alternative supplied up one thing extra sudden. It appears becoming then that his garments had been chosen by Robyn — a determine who has lengthy cultivated a madcap sense of style herself. While newcomers to Robyn is perhaps bewildered at her sartorial course, longtime followers will bear in mind loads of zany crimson carpet appearances through the years – akin to in 2011, when she arrived in a peach-toned kimono, two white leather-based belts, painted striped capri-size leggings and inexperienced Prada canvas open-toed brogues with a wedge platform heel. For the MoMA backyard celebration in 2016, Robyn opted for a sequined ‘70s style jumpsuit by designer Michael Halpern wherein one leg was a distinct sample to the remaining of the piece. Hers has at all times 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 tune which bounces between her struggles with IVF, being attractive for Adam Driver and her spending habits on Etsy.
Of course, the focus was the firetruck-crimson pants: a sexual heart 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 an alternative of pores and skin tight, for that every one-vital room to bop.