We were in the Valley shooting a scene, and everyone was in gas masks, and the sky was orange, which somehow seemed perfect.įrom that point on, I added fire to the hillsides in my music videos. When we worked on my dress for the Grammys, it was a bold entrance into a bigger world, and I thought, Can I do it? Am I allowed to present myself in a beautiful way? And what I learned through you is that sometimes, stepping into beauty doesn’t provoke criticism it invites more of an understanding, where your inside does shine out through your outside.ĭo you remember the shoot we did for the Gucci Guilty campaign, when Los Angeles was on fire?Īshes were coming into my car vent on the 405 highway because Bel Air was burning. With you, that’s literally what it was like. Because when I was younger, I always thought stepping into fashion would be like slipping on a gauze gown. Working with you, I could finally take a breath and let fashion be fun again, and try on different silk robes and remind myself why I loved it in the beginning. When someone is quick-minded and smart, it’s rare that they’re also really kind. I think delicacy comes out of being in a world where people can be very rough. I’m still listening to your music, and I’m dreaming with your words. When you’re a creative person, it’s beautiful to be in touch with people like you, who are so delicate and sensitive. I think that you are going to remain forever in everybody’s mind with that Met Gala outfit-you looked like a goddess, like a saint. I couldn’t believe it when you told me you had been listening to my record while working on a new collection. I remember talking on the phone years ago. Lana Del Rey: That’s why we’re creatives.

Even the titles of her records- Chemtrails Over the Country Club Norman Fucking Rockwell!-hint at elements of the mundane or even sinister beneath a glamorous ideal.Īlessandro Michele: We met when we first did the Met Gala together in 2018, I think? I’m not good with dates. On her album covers, she’s a flower child in front of a beat-up pickup truck or a passenger on a sailing yacht, reaching out for help with acid yellow nails as the shoreline burns behind her.

Throughout her career, the 36-year-old musician, born Elizabeth Grant, has turned a hazy but unflinching lens on the concept of Americana, peeling back the sunny veneer of the American dream to reveal what’s really there. Where champagne-fueled lawn parties might once have taken place, there’s now a dog run with a chain-link fence.Ī castle in the suburbs feels like a very Lana Del Rey sort of place. These days, from the beach, instead of a mysterious green light, one sees the high-rise buildings of downtown New Rochelle. But a few Gilded Age mansions still remain along the shore, among them Castle Gould, an imposing stone pile modeled after an Irish manor. Once a rural retreat for robber barons, it’s now a nature preserve that abuts a New York City suburb. It’s almost like I’m typing in my mind.Sands Point, the tip of a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, was the inspiration for East Egg, the fictional Gold Coast setting of F. For the first song, I pressed record and sang, ‘When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags, I think I wish I could extrapolate some small intention or maybe get your attention for a minute or two.’ It’s a very wordy album. She told Michele that the upcoming LP will be different than her previously released music. You had to really spell things out, and that was very hard for me.”ĭel Rey also shared that she’s working on some new music for an untitled album still in the works, set to follow up her 2021 album Chemtrails Over the Country Club. When things got bigger for me and my career, I always assumed that just by me speaking and being myself, people would know who I was inherently. “Not much needed to be said a lot was inferred between the lines. “When I was younger, my grandparents would let me watch their old movies, and I related to the subtle nuances of the female characters,” Del Rey explained. Speaking of Old Hollywood, she said her grandparents are the reason for her love of the classic era. At the end of every album, I say goodbye and thank you-very Old Hollywood style-and yet I cannot help but just continue to write.” The burn that can come from that really can incinerate your whole thinking life and your daily processes.

If I had my way, I would continue to persist in all areas of my life, but it can be quite challenging because I can be too trusting too soon. “It’s about trying to find beauty in giving up. “It’s the antithesis of hopefulness,” Del Rey told Michele.

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