The forecast for fall? A little more drama up top—so says Dua Lipa, anyway. With temperatures dropping, celebrities are taking their headwear increasingly seriously—or, more accurately, a little less seriously. Beanies and novelty caps, be gone: it’s time for the return of the fabulous, fantastical hat.
Dua Lipa is very much getting in on the action. Attending the 2026 WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Lipa made the case for statement millinery in a look from Matthieu Blazy’s fall 2026 Chanel couture collection. Styled by longtime collaborator Lorenzo Posocco, the singer wore a white and black, heavily textured tweed skirt suit with a straight-cut jacket, decorative jeweled buttons, and black feathery trim at the collar and cuffs. This was paired with the matching knee-length skirt, pointed black pumps, Bulgari diamond earrings, and a delicate layered pearl anklet. The crowning glory was her hat: an extravagant, inky-black asymmetric confection of wispy feathers and spiky embellishments, perched atop her head jauntily. Ladylike, yes. But prim and proper? Not quite.
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