Dilara Findikoglu fall 2024.
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The video for goth-pop, avant-orchestral “Berghain” revels in archival, off-the-runway pulls, styled by Jose Carayol. There’s a clinging black dress and jacket from Alexander McQueen’s fall winter 2002 collection, sourced from London’s West Archive. “I wanted it to be romantic, beautiful,” McQueen told Vogue of the collection at the time. “Power to the women!” The designs melded milkmaid necklines with Helmut Newton-esque details like leather bodices and tight pencil skirt. It’s the same—sometimes pleasurable, sometimes painful—dichotomy that has fascinated the Catalan star.
Rosalía in Alexander McQueen rosary bead spring 2003 heels.
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Alexander McQueen spring 2003 rosary heels.
There’s also a pair of rosary-bead strapped and cross charmed sandals from McQueen’s spring 2003 collection and a Nicolas Ghesquière-era Balenciaga spring 2004 bloom pink pleated silk dress—another body-contouring couture-like collection that, as Ghesquière put it, “gives power to femininity” through the contrast of structure and fluid textiles. Both were sourced from Barcelona’s Algo Bazaar. Another scene sees Rosalía in a gray fringed scarf-top and a low-rise pleated skirt from the McQueen-era Givenchy spring 1997 collection, and a button adorned tank top from McQueen spring 2003. Both Ghesquière and McQueen’s female characters have enchanted the pop star, from Ghesquière’s mythological goddesses to McQueen’s witches; quite right for an artist whose album is influenced by medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen and former sex worker turned poet and saint Vimala.
When Madonna was on her own spiritual journey in the late ’90s, culminating in the Ray of Light album, she looked to designer Olivier Theyskens for clerical-like gowns and ensconcing corsets set in shiny leathers, playing with the juxtaposition of sensuality and self-covering. This week, Rosalía dove into Theyskens archive, and styled by Chloe and Chenelle, wore a vintage Olivier Theyskens leather ensemble: a high-necked top and ruffled knickers, reveling in those same contrasting ideas.
Outside of vintage, Rosalia has worn a Vivienne Westwood by Andreas Kronthaler spring 2026 dress, a bridal boudoir gown with a Sacred Heart-esque lock pendant. There’s a beatific and bulbous Thom Browne spring 2026 skirt, using her album cover to conceal her top half—because there’s still room for joy and playfulness in this astral plane. At a Barcelona listening party for Lux, the singer wore a celestially sheer cream Colleen Allen fall 2025 gown: the New York designer’s collection, though on face-value seem austere, show a reverence for the female form.
