{"id":398613,"date":"2026-01-09T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398613\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:06:09","slug":"robyn-is-back-and-so-is-her-madcap-sense-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398613\/","title":{"rendered":"Robyn is back – and so is her madcap sense of style"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:\u00a0 Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, \u2018Look of the Week<\/a>\u2019 is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.\n<\/p>\n

\n Swedish musician Robyn\u2019s live performance Thursday of \u201cSexistential\u201d \u2014 the title track of her new album to be released in March \u2014 began in a shoulder stand with legs in the air. The fact she was wearing high-waisted red leather pants barely seemed to register as she rolled herself supine and began to writhe around the stage. Nothing, especially not a constrictive outfit, will keep the off-beat performer from moving how she wants to.\n <\/p>\n

\n The striking routine on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert offered a sneak peak of Robyn\u2019s new record, her first since 2018. The singer\u2019s outfit \u2014 rib-grazing leather trousers, a white cotton t-shirt topped with black leather waistcoat embroidered with gold swirling patterns, and a single embellished elbow-length glove \u2014 was from Italian designer Dario Vitale\u2019s one and only collection for Versace before his shock exit in December. It was \u201cuncomplicated elegance, unbound by inhibition,\u201d according to the Versace press release. There was no doubt about the latter part. But the elegance in this quirky look did feel complicated, challenging even, to take in at first glance. It was a little bit punk rock by way of Chrissie Hynde, very 1980s Giovanni Versace, with a dash of Michael Jackson visible in the solo glittering glove.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Vitale\u2019s debut collection was one of the most anticipated of last season, and was lauded by critics<\/a> as daring, original and delightfully wacky. He rejected a vision of Versace that was safe in terms of commercial viability, and instead offered up something more unexpected. It seems fitting then that his clothes were chosen by Robyn \u2014 a figure who has long cultivated a madcap sense of style herself. While newcomers to Robyn might be bewildered at her sartorial direction, longtime fans will remember plenty of zany red carpet appearances over the years \u2013 such as in 2011, when she arrived in a peach-toned kimono, two white leather belts, painted striped capri-length leggings and green Prada canvas open-toed brogues with a wedge platform heel. For the MoMA garden party in 2016, Robyn opted for a sequined \u201870s style jumpsuit by designer Michael Halpern in which one leg was a different pattern to the rest of the piece. Hers has always been a fashion palette built on clashing.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Robyn\u2019s puzzling Versace outfit Thursday began to make better sense as she sang the equally disorienting lyrics to \u201cSexistential,\u201d a song which bounces between her struggles with IVF, being horny for Adam Driver and her spending habits on Etsy.\n <\/p>\n

\n Of course, the focal point was the firetruck-red pants: a sexual center of gravity that Robyn ran her hand over, thrusted and splayed her legs in. It\u2019s the playbook of Hynde, Joan Jett and Marianne Faithful \u2014 but with a straight leg instead of skin tight, for that all-important room to dance.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:\u00a0 Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, \u2018Look of the Week\u2019 is a regular series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,144549,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-398613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-look-of-the-week","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}