Olivia Dean Is Behind the Ultimate Party Skirt Of the Summer

Reported by Vogue.

Olivia Dean changes her opening look every single night of her The Art of Loving tour. Non-negotiable. But there is one piece so good it gets to stay — a custom Chanel skirt that reappears each show when Dean moves to the B-stage, the plinth planted in the middle of the crowd where the feeling between performer and audience becomes something almost physical. Some clothes are simply too beautiful to wear once and retire.

According to Vogue, the skirt is based on looks 21 and 22 from Matthieu Blazy's first Métiers d'art collection — his now-signature "piña colada" silhouettes — reworked into a stadium-ready piece by Dean's longtime stylist Simone Beyene in collaboration with the Chanel atelier. Whitewashed silk, feather embellishments, petal embroidery, sequins catching the light like water. "I like the idea of Olivia being a flower," Beyene explains, describing the skirt as something ethereal, intentionally stripped back to match the white of the stage design. The top — a silk jersey tank that reads as a simple white vest from the upper tiers — is, per Blazy himself, an engineering achievement in softness. The contrast is the whole point: maximum drama held inside something that looks effortless.

Fashion, Not Costume

The commission came off the back of Dean's Grammys moment — Best New Artist, monochrome sequins, feathers, Chanel — after which Beyene visited the house's Le19M craft hub in Paris to understand the full scope of what goes into a single garment. For this skirt alone, she received updates from the tailors on the toile, the embroidery team, the feather artisans, and the finishing tailors. "I've always wanted Olivia's looks to read as fashion and not costumes," says Beyene, who approached the tour wardrobe the same way she would a red-carpet pull — just with a few more logistical variables.

The broader tour wardrobe channels old-school diva energy — Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston — filtered through what Beyene calls "modern vintage": playful, timeless, and rooted in Dean's own effortless glamour. The balance between heritage houses and younger labels is deliberate. The summer tour runs long, and more fashion moments are coming. But Chanel, it seems, is the constant.

The best stage dressing doesn't announce itself as costume — it just looks like a woman who got dressed and happened to be extraordinary.

Read the original at Vogue.