Music star Olivia Rodrigo's minidresses are just as familiar to her as her already symbolic pose in front of photographers (with her head tilted and the fingers of both hands folded). Garments inspired by the '90s, but reduced to the minimum possible length to still qualify as dresses.
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The artist, nominated for six Grammys in the next edition of the prestigious music awards, has already begun her promotional tour to build her career ahead of the event in February. She's not doing too badly so far: Just this week, she was named one of the most stylish people of the year by the New York Times, and her latest album, Guts, was named one of the best of 2023 by the Associated Press. On the cover of this LP? Olivia Rodrigo poses lying down wearing her favorite piece of clothing, another micro slip dress. In this case, it's one of the styles from Kim Kardashian's shapewear brand Skims, and she's wearing it over a mauve satin bra from Araks.
Olivia Rodrigo steps out in Los Angeles on December 1st wearing a metallic Rabanne dress.Getty Images
The tour for this work, the Guts World Tour, in the spring of next year is currently the busiest thing for Rodrigo, but he is making time for numerous appearances. This week we saw her as a guest on the popular American television program The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday and on the iHeart radio station Jingle Ball on Friday.
While on Jimmy Fallon's show last Thursday, she wore a '90s-inspired ShuShu/Tong dress and Louboutin shoes.Getty Images
For these last few dates she has once again chosen her fetish garment, the mini slip dress. Specifically with Jimmy Fallon, a black 90s-inspired design with printed blue flowers and transparencies on the neckline from Shanghai-based brand ShuShu/Tong, which specializes in naive designs. A proposal from her spring-summer 2024 collection, which she combined with a blue headband as well as platform shoes and a bracelet from Christian Louboutin (the Movida model). The next day, for her performance at the Jingle Ball in New York, the singer preferred to forego inspiration and directly saved a piece of clothing from the nineties. A red Versace dress from the brand's Fall-Winter 1996 collection, which she accessorized with high Dr. Martens boots and knee-high stockings combined.
Olivia Rodrigo last Friday night at Madison Square Garden in New York upon her arrival at the iHeartRadio station's Jingle Ball 2023. She's wearing a Versace mini dress and Dr. boots. Martens.Getty Images
Similar to the negligee, the lingerie-inspired dress has its origins more than a century ago, when Madeleine Vionnet proposed the bias cut that contoured the bodies of women dancing to the rhythm of the Roaring Twenties. A style that revived in the nineties both in its grungiest version (with Courtney Love as a great ambassador) and in its minimalist meaning (Calvin Klein). Then the design, whether biased or not, was cut and covered with lace to make it look like it came straight from the underwear drawer, as seen on the big screen back in the day by characters like Elvira Hancock from Scarface (Michelle Pfeiffer). were popularized above all, the red carpet, pop emblem of those years such as Winona Ryder, Drew Barrymore or Sarah Jessica Parker.
Winona Ryder at the 1989 Oscars, Christy Turlington posing in a 1992 Calvin Klein Collection resort design, and Drew Barrymore at a Los Angeles premiere in 1995. All three could easily be on Olivia Rodrigo's mood board.Getty Images
Back to Rodrigo: the former Disney factory actress has worked for years with sister stylists Chloe and Chenelle Delgadillo, who also often collaborate with Rosalía. They were responsible for the Chanel suit that she wore to visit the White House during the pandemic to assist in a vaccination campaign in the United States. “We remember it as an iconic moment,” the stylists said sometime later. A viral moment for the creator of Drivers License, the quarantine anthem. However, in recent months, the creator of Good 4 U has put herself in the hands of Danielle Goldberg, responsible for the style of other current “best dressed” women such as Greta Lee or Kaia Gerber.
The lingerie inspiration also works in midi length: on the left from Saint Laurent and on the right from Givenchy, two alternatives to the classic bias-cut slip dress.Getty Images
Olivia Rodrigo has a style all her own that also influences thousands of people around the world. Especially in her centenarian generation, who closely follows her every appearance and election. Her style is a sum of nineties influences and vintage clothing from those years, all passed through the at least apparent filter of simplicity and increasingly through the filter of sexy in the most traditional sense.
Microdresses that play with transparencies: from left, Olivia Rodrigo with a design by Calvin Luo, in metallic mesh and by Mirror Palais.Getty Images
“That's my diary,” she told Jimmy Fallon on Thursday about Guts, “but I had a very different experience with it as a songwriter,” she added of Can't Catch Me Now, the main theme of the film The Hunger Games: Ballad of songbirds and snakes. Another of his recent milestones. Named Time Magazine's 2021 Person of the Year and 2022 Billboard Artist. Olivia Rodrigo is closing out this 2023 in style and promises lots of headlines for next year 2024. She is probably waiting for them to be dressed in her favorite pattern.