{"id":599542,"date":"2026-08-20T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599542\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:20:21","slug":"olivia-dean-is-a-diva-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599542\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Dean is a diva in the making"},"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 In a world of manufactured pop princesses, how does a young artist achieve timeless, on-stage style? Olivia Dean\u2019s answer is to look to the greats.\n <\/p>\n

\n Since the official kickoff of the Grammy winner\u2019s \u201cThe Art of Loving Live\u201d world tour earlier this year, the singer and songwriter has dazzled her fans with a number of looks that call back to the golden days of diva dressing. Thanks to her stylist Simone Beyene, Dean has worn creations by Chanel, Bottega Veneta, Alexander McQueen, and more to perform hits like \u201cMan I Need\u201d and \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love).\u201d Each of Dean\u2019s looks for her string of shows, regardless of designer, have incorporated old Hollywood-esque details like fringe hems, floor-grazing silhouettes, feather boa skirts, and technicolor hues.\n <\/p>\n

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Olivia Dean channels divas of the past and present\n <\/p>\n

How do you pair timeless sound with style? If you’re Olivia Dean, you channel the greats. For her most recent tour, Dean’s stylist Simone Beyene pulled a number of dresses that embody classic Hollywood glamour – with a twist.<\/p>\n

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Olivia Dean channels divas of the past and present<\/p>\n

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\n To mark the start of her sold-out, four-night run at New York City\u2019s Madison Square Garden this past weekend, Dean debuted a fresh take on classic glamour with a glimmering chainmail halter gown by Ralph Lauren. Styled with little beyond a cascade of bouncy, blown out curls, she appeared to channel the style of Motown legend Diana Ross who is well-known for her love of sequins and larger-than-life hair. It was a fitting tribute for the 27-year-old to deliver as she builds a reputation for music that blends cultures and generations. Most certified divas \u2014 Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Adele and the late Whitney Houston for example \u2014 have incorporated lush gowns as part of their everyday performance attire. One could even consider it the official diva uniform. (Who can forget how Adele wore a different black dress every night during her in-demand Las Vegas residency?)\n <\/p>\n

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\n While a knockout voice is one way to capture an audience\u2019s attention, a splash of sequins and a killer stiletto helped stick the landing. Dean\u2019s approach is unique because she never veers into the unobtainable \u2014 her pared back stage makeup ensures she always looks fresh and more importantly, her age. There\u2019s clear intentionality behind the music she writes and the dresses she wears. Fleeting trends \u2014 musical or otherwise \u2014 don\u2019t fuel her art. That\u2019s the real secret behind her cross-generational appeal.\n <\/p>\n

\n Dean previously spoke about her approach to on stage style in an interview with Harper\u2019s Bazaar last year.<\/a> And it\u2019s clear she\u2019s continuing to stand firm in her personal creative direction. \u201cListen, bring back the gown! Bring back the heel!,\u201d she shared at the time. \u201cIf you guys paid your good money that you\u2019ve worked hard for, then let me give you a show.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Having previously mentioned<\/a> Ross along with Brazilian singer Gal Costa and even the fictional Carrie Bradshaw as some of her evergreen style inspirations, Dean knows that an on-stage wardrobe needs to incorporate equal parts drama and playful kitsch \u2014 as well as a non-negotiable outfit change.\n <\/p>\n

\n Later in the evening Dean paid homage to two more musical legends. A custom variation of Clio Peppiatt\u2019s \u201cEartha\u201d dress (fittingly named after screen legend and Catwoman herself, Eartha Kitt) was designed with intense detail including, more sequins but this time carefully crafted into the leopard print bodice of her tassel-fringed cocktail dress. Its asymmetrical, leg-baring hem also seemed to reference Tina Turner. The late Queen of Rock \u2018N Roll was no stranger to crystal-embellished costuming and often wore many variations of her signature mini-dress throughout her decades long career.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Traditional onstage glamour has been in desperate need of a cultural resurrection anyways. In a sea of mesh leotards, why not give us a little couture? Thank goodness Olivia Dean is here not just to sing for us or write songs that stare into your soul, but also to preserve the long-forgotten tradition of embracing one\u2019s inner showgirl.\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":599543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-599542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}