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White Mustangs and red Cadillacs that cruise down the highway and land on the surface of the moon. Bambi eyes, baby doll hair and the delicacy of a blue velvet gown. Tinges of raspberry, sweet dripping peaches and a burst of cherry in the evening glow. Silver starlets and golden gods in the Chateau Marmont turning diamonds into snow. Marilyn Monroe and Elvis are beacons of the good life. Norman Rockwell is the lifeblood of the American dream. The American flag ripples as it flies, set upon the fading sunset that paints the heavens red and orange, the stars escape the flag and fill the night sky. The tendrils of warm cigarette smoke that dance in the air of a derelict motel. Sticky ice cream, cold cola, the wild screams at Coney Island and a gunshot in the fading radiance of summer. Velvety Arizona rain, Jasmine perfume mixed with the scent of cognac fumes. Red carpets, a camera flash and the unbridled opulence of Hollywood Addiction, betrayal, violence and Americas most destructive minds Lizzy sat on the sand, watching the hypnotic and restless waves and heard the name Lana Del Rey echo on the breeze. In 2019 no musical artist welcomes this intoxicating but flawed fantasy more acutely than Lana Del Rey.
The Life Story
Lizzy Grant She was born in Lake Placid, in upstate New York, 1985. Grant says growing up in a resort town inspired the sisters’ mutual appreciation for visual representations of the American Dream. While the decadent camps on Lake Placid didn’t belong to them, they took comfort in their cinematic grandeur.
At 14, Grant was sent to Kent boarding school in Connecticut to deal with her drinking problem. In her feature as GQ magazine’s 2012 Woman of the Year, she said, “I was a big drinker at the time. I would drink every day. I would drink alone. I thought the whole concept was so fucking cool.”
Lizzy started studying philosophy when, aged 18, her uncle taught her "six basic chords" on the guitar."I realised I could probably write a million songs with those six chords so I moved to New York and I took a couple of years to just write whatever I wanted."
She enrolled at Fordham University in the Bronx to study philosophy and began volunteering at homeless and drug-and alcohol-rehabilitation programs. Around this time, she also began singing at Williamsburg and Lower East Side venues like Laila Lounge, Galapagos, The Living Room, and The Bitter End.
In 2008, while still in college, she signed a $10,000 record Her first record ‘Lana Del Rey A.K.A lizzy Grant was redeal with an indie label called 5 Points, teaming up with corded in 2008 and released in 2010. record producer David kahne.
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Lana Del Rey At eighteen, she moved to New York to attend Fordham Blue jeans, red dresses & white lies University, where she studied metaphysics, looking for proof of God, and began writing songs. In 2007, Grant made the final round of a local talent competition in In June 2011, Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough hit ‘Video Brooklyn. One of the judges was Van Wilson, an A&R Games’ became an overnight sensation. Full of Amer- for New York indie label, 5 Points Records. Wilson and ican iconography and old Hollywood allure, Lana Del label owner David Richter saw potential in Grant and Rey presented herself like an awkward self-composed signed her to a multi-record deal withan all-in budget of $50K, she moved to a trailer park in North Bergen, collage. In a twist of irony, the DIY video, thick with nostalgia, was refreshing compared to the playful pop New Jersey. She began working with producer David Kahne on an EP, called ‘Kill Kill’ which she released of 2012. Lana Del Rey sat in her cinematic sadness, looking longingly at the camera for someone to give her later that year as Lizzy Grant. The record flopped and was pulled from Itunes three months later. Soon a taste of wistful romantic love as she sings “It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you, everything I do”. She seemed so enough trailer park Lizzy found her dream discarded Immersed and aware of the image she was creating, it and her American flag static. She signed a joint deal ultimately had to be fake. Questions around Lana Del with Interscope Records and Polydor, hired a new manager, Ben Mawson, and set off to reinvent herself, Rey’s authenticity, have swarmed her career, but the self-styled “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” continues to live in all traces of bubbly blonde vanished from the internet. Out of ambience of clammy motels, the wispy tendrils her fantasy. of warm cigarette smoke, and the bitter taste of cold Pepsi cola, Lana Del Rey emerged with swopping VeVisions of her cruising down a dessert Californian ronica lake curls and a breathy voice, ready to take her highway, under an archway of palm trees and the wind twirling in her hair was bewitching until she hit a climb up the ‘H’ of the Hollywood sign. slight bump in the road. Her construct seemed fragile, Before Lana Del Rey’s career even began, accusations when she first broke out, painfully, on the Saturday Night Live stage in 2012. Lana uncomfortably swayed started flying that Lana Del Rey was a sketched out figure, many convinced she was nothing more than in her melancholia, flashing her cartoonish lashes as a marketing ploy hiding under the veil of American she avoided the gaze of the camera and the millions of eyes already questioning the singer. The voice that glamour. Almost overnight the bees swarming in her new flourishing beehive seemed to escape and sting her whimpered and howled about tales of biker gangs, lips in the process, as keen eyed viewers were eagerdeath wishes and devastatingly thrilling love stories, now seemed disposable. Her debut album Born to Die ly picking up any petals Lana del Rey dropped that eluded to her past. “There are a lot of things that dropped two weeks later: The New York Times‘ Jon Caramanica began his review, “It’s already difficult to don’t seem organic about it,” said Steven Horowitz, remember Lana Del Rey, but let’s try”. The flowers in who wrote a cover story about Del Rey for Billboard her hair started wilting, and Californian beaches turned magazine. “She’s putting on a show. She’s here to enblack as the truth emerged that Lana Del Rey wasn’t a tertain us”. The wide-eyed blonde is a far cry from the homeless teenager struggling to survive in the big apple, hopeless starlet with a taste for older men, according to she was a millionaire’s daughter named Lizzy Grant, her ex-guitar player, Arthur Lynn, “Lizzy had a much though she would have preferred to be called Lana Rey higher voice, she had no interest in vintage America, Del Mar, Sparkle Jump Rope Queen, May Jailer or the she was frustrated with singing jazz at crumbling venmany other names she adopted throughout her Brook- ues on the lower east side” the answer isn’t clear as to who initiated the process of Lizzy morphing into Lana. lyn pub singing days. In a 2010 interview with Steve Bateman she stated “I Lizzy was born in Lake Placid, in upstate New York, at wanted to be a band but the label I was with and the fourteen she was sent to Kent School, the 19th most ex- team I had around me absolutely wanted me to be a pensive private high school in America for alcoholism. solo artist,” she says “Lana Del Rey came from a series
of managers and lawyers who wanted a name that they thought better fitted the sound of the music” However when asked about her construct in a 2012 interview with Pitchfork, she diverted the subject by talking about her appreciation for Elvis “Elvis had good management and that’s why he looks well-crafted but actually-- other than his custom-made jump suits-- he was always a gentleman, always a star, had a face like a god, and a voice like a dark angel”. An artist reinventing themselves is nothing new, from the long haired Davie Bowie in Hunky Dory, into the melting pot of space, makeup and narcissism that would become Ziggy Stardust and Madonna’s switching personas, they have cultivated an image that is of their own imagination. Throughout her career Lana del Rey has managed to remain somewhat of an enigma, there’s no denying her cinematic grandeur appeal, but in true Lynch fashion, her tales of Ill-fated relationships that plague her exhausted heart, have sustained and become a key part of her image, regardless if she’s acting or not. Fast forward to 2019, Lana Del Rey is an award-winning multiplatinum singer, model and poet, who has successfully released five albums under her new persona. From 2011 to 2019 the aesthetic references surrounding her haven’t changed- Hollywood Vintage, tragic figures, the flickering buzz of the Chateau Marmont sign at night, and the last echoes of laughter at Coney Island during the day. These references are so pungent and graphic that matched with her imagined stories, she barely has to move as the image is working so hard. To orchestrate such a performance of this magnitude, Del Rey has paired her gloomy pop with layers of real and imagined characters – a silk jacket dress paired with an A-line skirt when playing Jaqueline Kennedy, a full length evening sheath dress encrusted with rhinestones when impersonating Marilyn Monroe, a good witch of the west coast and a blossoming hippy dressed in white lace and daisies, are all a part of her hazy fantasy. Lana Del Rey has become so fictionalised, her real persona is opaque and she has now become more associated with the mosaic of characters that complete her image. She has used the idea malleability, shapeshifting into new personas that are all derived from the same wholly dark, elegant lyric Factory, but still manage to remain utterly compelling. These constant references could soon become cliché, but for now, Del Rey continues to allure, and the debate to whether Lana Del Rey is authentic, may soon die, just like Lizzy.
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Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Nina SiJackie Kennedy, Bruce Springsteen, Monroe, and Elvis Presely
L a n a D e l Re y ’ s Tw i s t e d Fa n t a s y Everynow and then Lana Del Rey Likes to spike her nostalgic with her own vision of a dark paradise. In Lana Del Rey’s universe, Elvis Presley’s Lana del Rey has stylised herself of tragic figures smirks and shakes in his white sequin jumpsuit, from the past, she has utilised fashion to her Marilyn Monroe’s giggles fill the air, as Kurt Co- benefit, making it hard to believe she’s not a lost bain’s vacant stare and gruff voice projects in starlet who wondered out of the 50s. Until her Lana Del Rey’s stuffy cave of icons. It’s with marriage to Onassis in 1968, Jackie was probathese people that Lana Del Rey considers her bly the most influential fashion figure for Amerimost meaningful relationships. Actually, according can Masses. Most of her attire was designed by to Del Rey, she is a full-fledged family member, American fashion designer, Oleg Cassini. She singing ‘Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn’s my mother, reminded him of an “Egyptian princess, with the and Jesus is my bestest friend’. Lana Del Rey sphinx-like quality of her eyes, her long neck, a has skipped their individuality only Referencing slim torso, broad shoulders and narrow hips” and their tragedy, and even dressing like them. Com- he created a concept just for her, that would enbined with her show of semi-erotic show of pouti- hance these qualities. Her look was both elegant ness, it’s a real treat for sad girls and angsty boys and simplistic, especially her inaugural evening everywhere. gown of white Swiss double statin. Her military
inspired day wear included jackets with asymHer 2012 single National Anthem was accompa- metrical side-button closures, two-piece wool nied by a music video featuring A$AP Rocky and suits, sleeveless sheath dresses with bateau Del Rey portraying a couple akin to President necklines and a matching coat in the same fabric. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy. Del Rey also plays Hollywood costume designer Edith Head called Marilyn Monroe, the mistress basking on a lion Jackie “the greatest single influence in history”, skin rug, her gloom enhanced with interspersed her pill-box hat, designed by Cassini, became clips of the modern-day couple enjoying a lavish a trend one week later. Cassini dressed Jackie lifestyle full of glory and sexual excess. In the both cleanly and architecturally, her appearance daring video, President A$AP and Lana Del Rey becoming synonymous with the 60s. Jackie’s life frolic in the evening glow of the seaside, blow was consumed with the cruellest twists of fate kisses to each other, and let loose at an opulent and surrounded by death, how could Lana resist yacht party, before a fateful Dallas trip (JFK’s to take on her persona? 1963 assassination) brings their all- American love story to a tragic end. The video was intended to pay homage to Jackie, as Lana Del Rey told Lifestyle magazine in 2017, “To me, Jackie Kennedy is a feminist icon because she became the first woman in history to touch the president’s brain” Instead, the video functioned more as a tool to draw people into her ambience, and view her on the same rusty but gilded stage as Marilyn Monroe and Jackie O, a symbol to be yearned and cherished.
A sleepy shoot of Marilyn Monroe posed languor- recent reference to the suicide of actress Peg ously under silk sheets, taken by Douglas KirkEntwistle, who jumped of the ‘H’ of the Hollywood land in 1961, has also been replicated by Del Rey. sign, manipulates the public to view Del Rey as Monroe’s last professional photo-shoot in 1962 a walking myth. At the 2018 Grammy Awards, by George Barris captures her grinning as she Lana Del Rey channelled Hollywood actress and crouches on the coast, her curiosity caught in the inventor Hedy Lamarr by wearing a relaxed Gucci evening light as she resides into the comfort of gown with capes sleeves and a wrap skirt. The the towel around her naked body, showing a vul- stars circling above her head, was a more toned nerability that escaped Lana Del Rey’s shoot for down version of Lamarr’s halo in the 1941 film Complex in 2014 of the same nature. This kind of Ziegfeld girl, with the celestial costumes designed pop-star method acting, however, is how Del Rey by Adrian. Lana Del Rey is indeed a character, a inspires such mania in her fans, who were quick calculated construction concerned with the pubto notice Del Rey’s dress for the golden globes lic’s interest in fame and young death, and doesn’t reflected Marilyn Monroe’s dress for Gentleman appear like she’s going to forget her dearly dePrefer Blondes. Made out of gold lame in sunburst parted anytime soon pleats, the dress had two thin, flexible iron bars in a V-shape starting at the waist and travelling up the bust, moulding the dress to the body. The dress was designed by William Travilla and was also worn by Monroe to the Photoplay awards. Contrary to her admirers, Lana Del Rey grabs attention from those who believe her idealisation of tragic figures renders hollow. Lana Del Rey has a penchant for likening herself to musical and Hollywood greats, especially those that tragically left this Earth too soon. In an 2014 interview with The Guardian, Del Rey told journalist Tim Jonze “I wish I was dead already” and adds to her melancholia by believing dying young is glamorous. James Parish, author of The Hollywood Book of Death, believes “occasionally a current pop star looks to prior show business personalities and their tragedies as a reference point that may or may not be within the public’s frame of reference. In my opinion, this is often done to be a bit of a show off by referring to show business “names” from bygone times--feeling they are being more knowledgeable than most people today”. Del Rey’s lyrics of Drug use, despair and death has sculpted her persona, her
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Lady Daphne Cameron sits on a tiger pelt in the trophy room of Laddie Sanford’s Palm Beach, Florida, house, 1959.
Unkown model sits by the poolside, 1960.
Lana Del rey Poses on top of a lion skin rug for her 2012 ‘National Anthem’ music video.
Lana Del rey reads a simular magazine, a promotional photograph for her Honeymoon album 2015, shot by Neil Krug
Marilyn Monroe posed languorously under silk sheets, taken by Douglas Kirkland in 1961, Lana Del Rey for Maxim magazine, 2014, Photographed by Neil Krug.
Monroe’s last professional photo-shoot in 1962 by George Barris.
Lana Del Rey for Complex magazine, 2014, Photographed by Neil Krug
Lana Del Rey poses on the West Coast for FASHION magazine, shot by Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa.
Actress Gene Tierney poses in a red swimsuit, possibly desigmed by Oleg Cassini.
Lana Del Rey poses on the West Coast for FASHION magazine, shot by Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa.
Elizabeth Taylor at the beach in a publicity still for the film, ‘Suddenly, Last Summer’, 1959.”
Lana Del Rey for complex maagzine 2017, shot by Timothy Saccenti.
Monica Bellucci in Malena, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
At the 2018 Grammy Awards, Lana Del Rey channelled Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr by wearing a relaxed Gucci gown with capes sleeves and a wrap skirt.
Actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, Ziegfeld girl (1941) directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
Lana Del Rey for the February 2012 issue of Interview Russia & Germany.Photo-
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A still from Lana Del Rey’s ‘Blue Velvet’ music video, directed by Johan Renck.
Priscilla Presley walks up with her dog Honey to greet fans at the gates of Elvis’s California home. November, 1968.
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Lolita is more than just red nail polish and heartshaped sunglasses The name ‘Lolita’ is capable of triggering intense reac-
is a tough man, but he got a soul as sweet as blood red jam’. However, in the novel, Humbert Humbert ruthlessly rapes Lolita as he listens to ‘her sobs in the night – every night, every night – the moment I feigned sleep’. Del Rey is appropriating stylistic elements, lifting them out of their context and recycling them into their own aesthetic with a new meaning. For her music Video for ‘Ride’, Del Rey becomes her own mythologised Lolita, using the novels descriptions of “her auburn ringlets fell all over her skinned knee” “her lips as red as licked red candy” “generously full skirts and swimming suits” “She was barefooted; her toenails showed remnants of cherry-red polish” as a way to style herself as Lolita. Lolita embodies a fleeting moment of beauty, her freshness is alluring, and can be manipulated by Del Rey as a challenge to appear forever young to her fans.
tions. A vivid image of a young seductress enticing older men, lounging on grass, her long limbs glistening from the drizzle of water, sucking on lollipops and twirling her pigtails, a miniature Venus peering over her red heart-shaped sunglasses. No artist has taken on the persona of the young nymphet like Lana Del Rey. Singing “Light of my life, fire in my loins, be a good baby, do what I want” Del Rey’s remodelled her Lolita into a playful, damaged, sexually precocious girl, who flirts with the boy’s downtown, but has a vigorous and honest sexual charge for older men. She is a temptress, soaked in the innocence of childhood as she teases the lustful boys about how they “could be kissing my fruit punch lips in the bright sunshine”. But if Lana Del Rey picked up Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, flicked Lolita has become a figure in fashion, revealing herself to the pages over with her red acrylic nails, she may find a very different version of her Lolita, one that no red lipstick the world in new ways, when used in fashion, she’s used to portray society’s indulgent attitude about matters of the or heart-shaped sunglasses can cover that up. body. In 1988, The Face featured twelve-year-old Milla Jovovich on its March cover, announcing, “America’s most Nabokov wrote his controversial novel in 1955. Immediwanted models create Lolita fever”. Vogue France went ately banned in France, Australia and Britain, the novel tells the story of the self-indulgent Humbert Humbert, who on to commission the young Jovovich to be photographed becomes sexually infatuated by twelve-year-old nymphet by Peter Lindberg to do a reportage entitled Lolita 1990, Dolores Haze (Lolita), the pubescent child is prayed upon in which she took the role of Nabokov’s character. The following year marked the modelling debut of Kate Moss, by Humbert’s perverse mind and actions, who manipulates the child into embarking on a sexual relationship with chosen by John Galliano specifically for her still immature, tiny body to walk in his 1992 Spring/Summer fashion him. he snatches her innocence and reduces her identity to just a fantasy ‘There my beauty lay down on her stom- show. Quoting the novel, the designer affectionally called her “his Lolita forever”. Madonna also interpreted the ach, showing me, showing the thousand eyes wide open trend, in 1992 she was photographed by Steven Meisel in my eyed blood, her slightly raised shoulder blades, for Vanity Fair, acting like a pubescent girl complete with and the bloom along the incarnation of her spine, and pigtails and ribbons, surrounded by teddy bears. Howevthe seaside of her schoolgirl thighs’. It’s easy to become er, Del Rey has exploited this image to glorify her vision enticed by Nabokov’s elegant and lyrical writing style, of older men as protectors, in the era of #Metoo, Lana masking the severity of the books disturbing nature and corruption, which may be the case with Lana Del Rey. Del Del Rey portraying a seductive broken girl is disturbing. It appears most of her fans have no idea the severity of Del Rey has also used the rhetoric of true love to describe Rey’s image, at concerts they try to catch the ribbons in something that is immoral. She worships her ‘Daddy’ her hair as she floats by, thrust their paper at her, in the figures, preaches about how they have rescued her from being a lost girl while appropriating their brazen language hope she will kiss it with her cherry-stained lips and leave and tendencies as a means of affection. Del Rey portrays a gentle mark. Each one eagerly eats the whole façade these men as gentle and harmless, a toy she can manip- up. ulate through her kisses and whimsical voice ‘My old man
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Alessandro Michele borrows from distant ness and sugary nostalgia. Michele, captivated by times and places, finding a way to incorporate the mystique of old Hollywood, pulled this ambience into Gucci’s spring 2019 collection. Taking inspiration elements into his melting pot of designs.
from films such as films like Singing in the rain (1952) and Cover Girl (1953), the campaign replicates the Since Alessandro Michele took the reins of Gucci at extravagance, erraticness and magic of Hollywood the beginning of 2015, he’s been film production, While simultaneously humorising our stirring his own distinctive vision of the brand into a obsession of celebrity culture. A host with an old-style small, redefining its look, image and angle. By Sepheadset asks a very clichéd question to a couple tember 2017, Gucci had seen a 44.5 percent increase shielded in gemstones, “Who you wearing?”, to which in revenues overall, with 50 percent of Gucci’s sales one responds “This is Gucci, everything’s Gucci, were reported to be coming from Millennials. Michele’s always Gucci”. Starlets wore floor-length embellished ditsy florals, jewel-encrusted accessories and haphaz- gowns, oversized diamante necklaces and tailored ard print combinations, are all mixed with his kaleido- suits in velvet. Energetic tap dancers wore Gucci loafscope of the past. One collection could contain velvet ers and actresses paraded in furs and Gucci trainers. gowns, 70s flares, 40s tailoring, checked tweeds, It was a modern eclectic display of the golden era of metallic skirts, Baroque prints, printed leggings and film, all directed by Glen Luchford. oversized glasses. In some ways, it’s a very successful opulent nightmare. Alessandro Michele has cast his spell of romanticism and antiquity over the Gucci, imbuing his dresses, jackets and skirts in an undenia- A penchant for the past Is working for Gucci. For their ble tackiness that feels fresh. Michele has explored a Fall/winter 2018 collection, several models carried visual vocabulary one that sells to society’s new ideas a replica of their own head, with one wearing a red on gender, using every mode of communication pos- jumper with voluminous fuzzy sleeves, emblazoned sible. He has drawn on the contemporary, remoulding with the ‘Paramount Pictures’ logo. The Cruise 2019 and projecting his vision into all the logomania Millen- collection saw crewneck sweatshirts, t-shirts and nials waiting, utilising social media and celebrities to bags adorned in the Chateau Marmont sign, a sacred strengthen the brand’s modernity. place of pop culture and referenced in many of Lana Del Rey songs. Michele has shattered the diamond representing old Hollywood, each tiny fragment finds Michele has also Invigorated Gucci with his time-col- a way into each new collections, there is a consistlapsing world, oozing the brand with nostalgia. The ent reference to nostalgia. Michele has latched onto Gucci Guilty perfume campaign, shot by Glen Luch- the idea of wanting something you can’t have, in this ford, catches a day for L.A.’s quirky, alternative cou- case, living the charm and twisted tales of Hollywood, ple. Lana Del Rey drips in Baby doll glamour, as she Michele is catering to this aesthetic through his destruts through a supermarket and lounges on a bed signs. Lana Del Rey, with her pungent and evocative while watching a retro style television. Her bouffant references already ingrained into her identity, only hair, styled by Paul Hanlon, is complemented by her works to strengthen the narrative. For the 2018 Gramgreen jumpsuit, underneath she wears a sparkling, my Awards, Alessandro Michele dressed Lana Del mesh bodysuit and a long necklace matched with Rey in a relaxed Gucci gown with capes sleeves and pearl earrings. “He wanted to have a campaign that a wrap skirt. This was a reflection of was centred around this concept of ‘Hollyweird’ so I Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, the guess he thought I was just weird enough for it,” Lana stars circling above her head, was a more toned down Del Rey told I-D in 2019. Del Rey and Jared Leto version of Lamarr’s halo in the 1941 film Ziegfeld girl, slow dance in a Laundromat, and gossip in a diner with the celestial costumes designed by Adrian. For (in which Courtney love plays a waitress). They both the future, Michele will more than likely be hypnotising meander through the Gucci universe, surrounded by will old Hollywood references, projecting the aesthetic the ethereal backdrop of classic Americana, such as into his androgynous designs, creating a display that a motel, an automobile and the Hollywood Forever renders mystifying. cemetery. Battling Lana Del Rey’s switching personas,