The Most Inappropriate Outfits Dua Lipa Has Ever Worn

Dua Lipa's eye-catching fashion is just as well-known as her earworm disco-pop hits. There isn't a trend that Lipa hasn't worn, from Y2K-inspired throwbacks to sexy athleisure to gothic glam. With the help of her stylist Lorenzo Posocco, with whom the singer has grown up, Lipa has created a wardrobe that combines both up-and-coming designers and established luxury names. Her post-pandemic "Future Nostalgia" tour boasts custom-made costumes from Balenciaga, Versace and Mugler.

While Lipa's fashion has its admirers, it also raises eyebrows. When the singer guest hosted "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in 2020, she quizzed some seniors who had no idea who Dua Lipa was let alone that they were talking to her. When she held up a picture of herself in arguably one of her tamer performance outfits, one elderly lady remarked, "That's terrible. If I had a daughter, I wouldn't want her to go out in that."

While her outfit choices may be seen by some as inappropriate for the occasion or setting, Lipa's one fashion rule is that she doesn't follow rules. "Everyone is allowed to wear whatever the f*** they want, and it's so important that they do," she told Refinery29. "This is the way we move forward in the world. We have to break the norms." Here are some moments when the "New Rules" singer broke the rules of fashion or propriety.

At a 2018 fan signing event for V Magazine, Dua Lipa chose an outfit that can best be described as the dress version of a mullet. From the front, the Marianna Senchina dress seems unassuming — it's in a sweet polka dot print, the hemline goes past her knees, and there are velvet bows decorating the side of the bodice. The only skin exposure seems to be from the fact it's a one-shoulder dress.

When she poses to the side, it's like the mullet's party in the back — only it's along her side. There is a slit that goes all the way to the waist and the aforementioned bows seem to be keeping the dress from being completely open at the side. It's also apparent that she wasn't wearing anything underneath. Lipa took to Instagram to share a photo of her look, prompting a fan to comment: "A slight gust of wind and it would end in tears haha" (via Daily Star).

Dua Lipa donned a wildly provocative stage outfit for the 2019 MTV European Music Awards, where she opened the show with "Don't Start Now." As Vogue reported, the singer wore a Mugler bodysuit in which every part of it was sheer or exposed skin except for the long sleeves. The front was made up of a bandeau bra with large cutouts in the chest and abs area. When she turned around, the audience got an eyeful of her back in another cutout and tights that outlined her butt. 

Lipa was joined on stage by dozens of backup dancers who were dressed in yellow leotards. On Instagram, she thanked her stylist, writing, "Thank you [Lorenzo Posocco], my partner in crime ... for making us all look and feel like we just walked out of a Guy Bourdin photograph." Bourdin was a French photographer who was known for his provocative fashion photography and work for French Vogue from 1955 to the '80s.

While the outfit was sexy enough even if she had stood still, her choreography on a chair would leave anybody blushing.

Commenting on Dua Lipa's style, British Vogue wrote that her age group's go-to uniform involves micro skirts, cutouts, and sheer fabric. While non-celebrities probably can't wear these kinds of clothes in their daily lives, a pop superstar like Lipa does ... and then has impromptu photo shoots on the sidewalk, in the middle of the road, and on the side of a building, as she shared on Instagram. Regular folk also probably wouldn't wear so little in the freezing weather of late October London. But again, Lipa isn't regular folk.

As part of this particular fall photoshoot, Lipa took to the streets late at night in a sheer Jean Paul Gaultier Tennis Suit set that exposed her lacy lingerie after attending Caroline Polachek's concert at Islington Assembly Hall, according to W Magazine. In another example of celebrities living in another world, she wore the outfit on the same day that it was available to the public as ready-to-wear, meaning she probably had first dibs on it. 

Dua Lipa broke the number one wedding guest rule by wearing white. And she did this not once but twice. In July 2022, she wore a Bottega Veneta white lace and sequined slip dress to literary agent Olive Ensley's wedding (per PopSugar). The following month, she wore another white gown — this one showed off her white lingerie — to the wedding of fashion designer Simon Porter Jacquemus and his partner, Marco Maestri (per Glamour).

In both cases, Lipa drew controversy for seemingly putting the attention on herself instead of the couples getting married. It was of course the color choice that ruffled feathers more so than the see-through characteristics, which has, quite frankly, become a signature part of Lipa's style. However, context is always important before casting stones.

In the case of Ensley's wedding, Instyle pointed out that the bride didn't wear traditional white. Instead, she wore a fuchsia-colored gown for the ceremony and changed into a bubblegum pink pants suit and bra ensemble for the after-party. For Jacquemus' wedding, Lipa was wearing a dress from the designer's own Fall 2022 ready-to-wear collection (per Glamour). Others in attendance were also wearing white, so the color may have actually been part of the dress code.

To celebrate her 27th birthday, Dua Lipa partied in Ibiza and commemorated the week on her Instagram with a series of photo dumps in various outfits and poses. She kicked off the festivities with a Marc Jacobs silver crystal bra that was so tiny that it couldn't even cover the tan lines that she got from wearing her barely-there bikinis and bra tops (per British Vogue). She finished the rest of the look in white with a cropped jacket, a long skirt, and the designer's Mary-Jane mega platforms.

The singer closed off the week in an LBD that was very close to her actual birthday suit. Per InStyle, the label was one of her go-tos, Mugler, and had the sheer and cutout elements that are present in many of her outfits. The upper part was a sheer turtleneck that had star-shaped, opaque panels that strategically covered her chest while the lower part showed off her hips and legs with a cutout and an asymmetrical miniskirt.