Dua Lipa Covers Vogue France September, Wearing Style Austerity AOC Fashion

Top talent Dua Lipa covers the September 2023 issue of Vogue France, wearing ALAÏA in a 180° turn away from her bushy, dark brows. Barely-there nude makeup and a blonde no-brows, visual closeup launches a fashion story portrait of Dua Lipa by Mert Alas solo [IG] to kick off the fall 2023 fashion season with austerity.

In contrast to her center stage May 2023, joyful butterflies, exquisitely beautiful Versace ‘La Vacanza’ Magic in Cannes, a joyless darkness has settled over Dua Lipa’s France. It is perhaps a sign of the times.

Writer Arthur Dreyfus assures us that his interview with Dua is “intimate and funny”. Like when he asks her:

We sometimes hear that the fear of emptiness is a fear of death. You agree ?

I don't know. I make sure to make the most of every moment. I don't think I'm afraid of death, it's a part of life. And I saw my parents adapt to so many things, face so many complex situations... It made me integrate a principle of reality.

Dua Lipa has a mini Oprah operation going on with her Service95 website, a place of intellectual ideas and commentary — and her podcast.

Even more consequential are her words about homophobia and transphobia and how close they are to misogyny. I would add again that our brains are also different. As a culture in America — we’re afraid to pick up that thread of investigation. I’ve quoted this 2020 Scientific American article before and note multiple new research references since then waiting for my attention.

Dua Lipa is highly articulate in how she sees this challenge :

Homophobia and transphobia are close to misogyny. A lot of people, deep down, are just afraid of themselves. The freedom of others confronts them with what they do not have the courage to express. The beauty of a free, true and proud being paralyzes them.