“I would like to have already died,” said Lana Del Rey in a mythical interview with The Guardian In 2014. A solemn, glacial declaration, which would go down in history by raising many media fuss in fully synthesize nihilism glam of his aesthetic, still misunderstood from the world. Fortunately, not only is it alive and vegeta and ready to turn off 40 candles. Idolar by all generations, award -winning, Musa by Alessandro Michele, musical icon, style icon, the lolita with hollywood saddest heart -shaped glasses today seems even happy.
Wool of Rey and Alessandro Michele at the Met Gala 2025.
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A new album is coming and (for now) the American singer -songwriter said enough to the idealized toxic relationships that always end badly. With his ninth record, Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023) He had left us suspended in his typical confessional mix made of disillusioned love, mourning, eroticism, decadence and divine. Added in search of a new spirituality, determined to treat the wounds of the past. And sublimated by the frayed and shaded sensation we share, the one that no one like you has been able to return to us better: the effort of “letting go”.

Wool of Rey, Leeds Festival 2024.
Katja Ogrin/Getty ImagesPerhaps for this reason, or perhaps to exorcise it, Two years ago at my birthday I dressed in the wool of the Rey. The theme of the party was “who you would like to be”. Were there any doubts? Absolutely not. I listened for hours A & W, Let the light in, Taco truck x vbsmoking over time to live them more intensely. Put the crisis of the quarter of a century and the anniversary in September, Et voilà a lethal mix of early nostalgia e Summertime Sadness. Like: summer is running out, another year has gone, “What you are doin ‘with your life? Do you think about it? », Give a wake up. In short, what better way to celebrate that sweet tragedy of “becoming big”?

Wool of Rey, 2012.
Marc GrimwadeCamouflage is. Ok, but which one to choose? There is the outfit Defaccately American – denim shorts, buttwiser t -shirts and Texan boots – consecrated in the video clip of Laughs While swinging at the turn of a tire. And Miley Cyrus takes note. Or there is the wedding dress, a stylistic figure in the flow of consciousness of his discography. From the bucolic veil of Ultraviolencepassing through the cover of Interview Magazine in Dior, up to the model coquette sported with his actual secret marriage in a swamp of the Louisiana. Or even, there are flakes, vintage sundecks, golden age sequins, such as silver ones of the bought dress last minute At the shopping center for the Grammy 2020. Without forgetting the sacred symbolism catalyzed in the memorable Gucci 2018 Met Gala outfit with a winged aureola and a maxi-gilded-rowing of 3D swords on the chest.

Wool of Rey, Met Gala 2018.
Rabbani and Solimene Photography/Getty ImagesIn the end I opted for a mélange of tropes easily available in the closet. Flagy blue corset, Blue miniskirts, glittered heels and flower crown statement Lying on a light brown wig taken at the KK Store in viale Sabotino. That wool would certainly approve. Still, the result was a flashback immediate. Immediately, there in front of the mirror, I was mowed by a wave of tenderness “Sweet 16 edition».
Video clip of Born to die.
It was the magical 2012 when it came out Born to Die. I was about to begin the first year of high school and that album-manifesto would become the perfect spokesman for a generation of girls exasperated by the nostalgia of something not yet happened. That electrical moment in which you can’t wait to make mistakes, attracted by fascination and a certain impatience for the world. Because after all, and above all, “it is quite young and in love”, despite being always the wrong person. And your outfit à la Del Rey subscribes it: Rétro skirts, eyeliner on the eyelids, long scarlet nails and fake flowers in the hair. Placidly deluded to speed through the California desert instead of among the fields of the Bassa Bergamasca.

Wool of Rey, 2012.
Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesFrom his debut, The stylistic references of Lana del Rey have not changed much. They have been stratified over time, of course. But the cinnamon girl New York did not go through “eras” like his colleagues, he did not undergo drastic experiments. His “disguise” Hollywood Sadcore From the 1960s reverberations, it is immune to the passage of time, waterproof to trends while being immediately recognizable.
From an aesthetic point of view it is a bit the heir of Amy Winehouse, perhaps due to that vintage allure wisely mixed with contemporary trends. A sartorial image that of Lana del Rey who now makes the boom in online research: the Pinterest data reveal, in fact, that its characteristic look is now in great dusty. But why?

Just a year ago the “wool of the Rey Core”, in fact, she went crazy on Pinterest And, more generally, in recent times Tiktok has declined it in content of all kinds. As proof that his being so coherently elusive falls perfectly into the Zeitgeist. I think of the girls who are about to begin the first year of high school. While reading and rereading his texts, they look at video clips out of focus on YouTube and shake outfits Inspothey burn themselves to a bow in the hair as still aesthetic and emotional. As for us young/great, well, we are still obsessed with his damn romantic poetry. Consci that there will always be an opportunity to re -down from time to time a crown of flowers. A little for fun. A little to finally try to “let go”.

Wool of Rey, 2013.
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Wool of Rey, 2023.
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