Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella headline set was a movie, and Dior made the costumes. On Friday (April 10), Sabrina Carpenter changed four times across her set, in custom looks designed by Jonathan Anderson. Vogue said the wardrobe came together with stylist Jared Ellner and creative director Brett Alan Nelson, all of them looking to Christian Dior himself.
The set was built like a studio lot, with a Hollywood Hills backdrop and a “Walk of Fame” runway, and the clothes followed. She opened “Manchild” in a red peacoat, then dropped it to reveal a sequin-covered red minidress with capped sleeves. Next came a gold sequined mini with billowy champagne chiffon sleeves, which Vogue called “very Cher, very Studio 54.”
“Bed Chem” brought the boudoir: a white beaded, fringed bra top and a swishy skirt, for chair choreography. The finale was the showpiece. For “Espresso,” she wore a corseted black lace bodysuit with a sculptural lace cape, the most dramatic of the four, Vogue said. Numero’s reading was more cinematic, pointing to Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!, Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood as references.
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It matters because it extends a relationship Numero traces to last June, when she attended Dior’s men’s show in preppy tailoring, and the French magazine concluded the partnership looks built to last. At a festival of dressed-down headliners, her stage clothes were the opposite of Justin Bieber’s hoodie and shorts, a contrast W Magazine drew when it rounded up both weekends’ looks.
Weekend two proved the point. On April 17 she wore Dior again, five outfits in new colorways, according to Firstclasse: a blue microdress with a shorter skirt, a hot-pink sequined dress with cape-like sleeves, a red Dior-logo sweatshirt for “Sugar Talking,” a black bralette with pearl strings over a fringe skirt and a white lace bodysuit with a voluminous cape. W added that her first red dress turned blue and the black lace turned white.
The biggest swap was the guest. Madonna joined her for “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer” in her own archival purple pieces, and then said those clothes had gone missing. For the full show behind the clothes, see our look at Sabrinawood, and for Dior’s other Carpenter moment, July’s couture front row.
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