Lily Allen’s latest revenge dress comes with paper marks.
The 40-year-old singer kicked off her West End Girl tour at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Monday, performing David Harbour’s breakup album in a series of outfits that are as shocking as the lyrics.
During “4Chan Stan,” Allen wrapped himself in a long piece of cloth printed with handwritten lyrics, a tequila bar and a receipt from Bergdorf Goodman. The latter is a direct nod to the song, in which a husband discovers he bought another woman an expensive handbag at an upscale department store.
Allen wore the hideous “dress” over a custom Self Portrait ruffled sheer lace bodysuit, burgundy patent hot pants, Agent Provocateur bra, Calzedonian fishnet stockings, and Christian Louboutin pumps that debuted in an earlier number.
The look for the show was styled by Mel Ottenberg, editor-in-chief of Interview magazine, who credited Allen with “saving me from retirement from tour styling 20 years after I first styled him” on Instagram. Makeup artist Amy Twist and hairstylist Ross Kwan completed the glam team, and Kwan styled Allen’s hair into a bouffant style with bangs for the show.
She performed all 14 songs on the album (widely understood to chronicle the breakup of her marriage to the Stranger Things actor, 50), and cycled through six looks in her 45-minute set, each tailored to a different chapter in the record’s story.
For “Madeline,” a song about a mysterious woman discovered in her husband’s text messages, Allen performed on a pink-lit stage in a sheer Valentino nightgown, Araks bra and underwear, and a marabout-trimmed manitosile robe.
She appeared in a pink tweed Valentino skirt suit with an oversized black bow at the top of the set, then changed into a black leather ballet bra bustier dress by 16 Arlington (whose runway show Allen walked in November) for “Beg for Me.”
For “Pussy Palace,” Allen sang from a bed on stage with a Duane Reade bag by her side, echoing the song’s lyrics about discovering a shoebox full of love letters from other women.
The pop star previously performed two songs from the album on Saturday Night Live in December, and dressed up as the children’s book character Madeline for Halloween, giving a sharp look at the album’s “other woman.”
Allen has since dated Jonah Freud. Jonah Freud is a 28-year-old London-based writer and artist who is the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, whom he confirmed in a recent interview with Grazia UK.
The tour will continue across the UK until March, before heading to North America in April.
