There's a certain intangible quality about Lana Del Rey that feels like it could not possibly be distilled into words (unless it's her own poetry book of course). The singer and musician has an energy, an aura, about her that sets her apart – a dreaminess that is perhaps best encapsulated by her songwriting
Del Rey has got a style all to her own, developed over the course of a career spanning nearly 10 years now, that playfully explores contradiction. Her songs demonstrate a careless persona, unselfconscious and disinterested and basking under a dappled West Coast sun. But they also show us a woman haunted by the future, yearning for freedom and carrying a feeling akin to hopelessness. She's the casual all-American girl-next-door, but she's also sultry, dark and brooding. There's a reason she used to called herself the “Gangsta Nancy Sinatra.”
Since the release of her early albums - like her breakout 2012 LP Born To Die - Lana Del Rey's sartorial choices have often mirrored her musical contradictions. The Summertime Sadness songstress oscillates between donning resplendent custom Gucci gowns, hand-in-hand with Alessandro Michele at the Met Gala, to showing up to the Grammys in a department store dress she purchased on a whim mere hours before the ceremony. While she appears to favour a simple white dress on stage, she mixes things up with a traditional Americana fashion diet of blue jeans and baseball caps in her day-today. As Del Rey often touches on the themes of beauty, youth, or the fleetingness of both in her music, so we're not surprised she doesn't take things too seriously when it comes to her wardrobe.
In honour of the release of her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, this month, we thought it was about time we rounded up some of Lana Del Rey's best style moments on and off the red carpet so far.
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