Chappell Roan, who managed to make kitsch a hymn to freedom

There are icons that are born for their pleasure ability to the masses, and others who bloom in excess and aesthetic paradox. Chappell Roan It belongs definitely to the second category: the artist, fresh from victory for best emerging artist at the Grammy Awards 2025, gave birth to a powerful visual language that accompanies and does not dominate his music, capable of transforming the kitsch in a form of liberation on several levels.

The record scene is often dominated by strategies studied at the millimeter, but Roan has always moved in the opposite direction, building an image deliberately over the lines it represents is a tribute to the community queer that an answer to discrimination.

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Originally from Missouri, Kayleigh Rose Amstutz “This is his name to the registry – he declared in fact on several occasions that he grew up in a place where there were not many gay people declared, and the way some bullies of the school remained impressed on them remained impressed on them, calling them clowns. It is from this memory that the singer embraced The label of clown Like a way to react with pride, pitting his face brightly and choosing silhouettes who seem to embody characters from other worlds: a real aesthetic manifesto that challenges conventions e celebrates freedom of expressioncombining theatricality and irreverence.

Chappell Roan in Monique FEI to the Governors Ball 2024. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan stands out for a scenic presence that recalls the golden age of 80s pop ee ’90in which each look appears as An act of resistance to sobriety. However, it is not a maximalism in itself, because the aesthetic awareness that transpires makes each choice, in its own way, sophisticated: an example are so much its appearances on the stage – like that of the last Governors Ballwhere he trod the scene by playing the role of the statue of freedom – both those on the red carpet, among the most memorable in recent years. From Grammy 2025, for which he showed off a creation of Jean-Paul Gaultier of 2003, to the MTV Video Music Awards last year, where it appeared with a signed look Y/Project of the autumn/winter 2024 collection by impersonating a medieval warrior queen.

Chappell Roan in YPROJECT at MTV VMA 2024. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Y/Project to MTV VMA 2024. Getty Images

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The stylistic decisions are never random, and continuously fish by the rich pop imagination, with references to culture dragto style dances voguing, to the atmospheres of the underground clubs. During the last month of fashion, in addition, and in particular during Paris Fashion Week, the singer of Pink Pony Club It was one of the stars who participated most in the fashion shows as a guest, from Valentino to Alexander McQueen, presenting himself with memorable outfits who personally played the codes of the Maison.

Valentino, the autumn-winter 2025/26 parade: in a public bathroom the (paradoxical) idea of ​​the intimacy according to Alessandro Michele comes to life

Doors that open and close. Holy honestly Valentino, of course. But that always doors of a public bathroom are, in front of which the maison gathered everyone – including stars, from Jared Leto to Bianca Balti – to tell us that, after all, “no intimacy can definitively depend on us”

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The Valentino fashion show at Paris Fashion Week
Chappell Roan at the Valentino Autumninverno 20252026 parade. Getty Images

Chappell Roan at the Valentino Autumn-winter 2025/2026 fashion show. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan singer fits into a factual lineage of performers who have made the style of an extension of their artistic and social message, embodying a new generation that claims the right to be exaggerated, frivolous and authentic without compromise. Get beyond the common taste, in this case, coincides with the celebrating the liberating power of the disguise and point out how much a wardrobe made of feathers, sequins and saturated colors is not only a show for the eyes, but an invitation to Live identity as a game.

Here are some of the most iconic looks worn by the pop star:

Chappell Roan at the Matières Fcales fashion show autumninverno 20252026. Launchmetrics

Chappell Roan at the Matières Fécales fashion show autumn-winter 2025/2026. Launchmetrics

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Chappell Roan at the Rick Owens fashion show autumninverno 20252026. Getty Images

Chappell Roan at the Rick Owens Autumn-Winter 2025/2026 fashion show. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan in Jeanpaul Gaultier at the Grammy Awards 2025. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Jean-Paul Gaultier at the Grammy Awards 2025. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan in Zana Bayne on the stage of the Grammy Awards 2025. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Zana Bayne on the stage of the Grammy Awards 2025. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan in Sam Harper at the Guts World Tour premiere. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Sam Harper at the Première of Guts World Tour. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan in Zana Bayne on the stage of the MTV Vma 2024. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Zana Bayne on the stage of the MTV Vma 2024. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan in Rabanne to MTV VMA 2024. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Rabanne to MTV VMA 2024. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan in Zana Bayne on the stage of the Fetsival Lollapalooza 2024. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Zana Bayne on the stage of Fetsival Lollapalooza, 2024. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan in Efrain Nava at the Grammy Awards 2024. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Efrain Nava at the Grammy Awards 2024. Getty Images

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Chappell Roan in Gunnar Deatherage at The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon 2024. Getty Images

Chappell Roan in Gunnar Deatherage at The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, 2024. Getty Images

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