Dua Lipa: Power Dressing With a Wild Streak

Dua Lipa has always been comfortable with an outfit carrying several ideas at once. Walking through New York in April 2026, she turned that instinct into a particularly useful styling lesson: corporate pinstripes, an open white shirt, leopard print, knee-high boots and a saturated yellow handbag can occupy the same outfit when every piece has a clearly defined role.

The original look started with an oversized charcoal pinstripe blazer layered over a crisp white button-down and fitted black base. The blazer and shirt have yet to receive reliable public product identifications, so those pieces are best treated as styling codes instead of assigning speculative labels. Below them, Dua Lipa wore an asymmetric leopard skirt from The Attico Spring 2026, its irregular hem breaking apart the strict vertical lines above.

McQueen Birdee knee-high boots gave the lower half a long black anchor, while Tom Ford Penn sunglasses repeated that severity around the face. The bright interruption came from a yellow Louis Vuitton Speedy P9 Bandoulière 25, finished with natural leather trim and white Monogram graphics. Bvlgari Serpenti rings completed the original accessories.

The easiest place to begin recreating it is the blazer because its scale determines everything underneath. Gestuz JoelleGZ Pinstripe Blazer keeps the black pinstripe, double-breasted front, structured shoulders and intentionally oversized fit. It creates the same broad upper silhouette without pushing the outfit into conventional suiting. The extra room also matters because the cuffs and collar of the shirt need to remain visible around it.

For the white layer, a Brooks Brothers Classic White Cotton Shirt preserves the clean, almost menswear quality of Dua’s original. Its straight body and crisp cotton give the outfit one visual pause between the tailoring and the animal print. Wear several buttons open and pull the cuffs beyond the blazer sleeves. The shirt works best here when it looks borrowed from an office wardrobe and then deliberately styled out of context.

The skirt carries the outfit into much less obedient territory. Jacquemus Paloma Skirt makes a strong substitute for The Attico original through leopard jacquard, a fitted waist and sculptural godet construction. The silhouette differs from Dua’s sharply asymmetric hem, yet both pieces use leopard as something architectural instead of a straightforward printed midi. Jacquemus adds pockets concealed beneath pleats and a peplum-like shape around the hip, giving the pattern enough structure to hold its own beneath such a dominant jacket.

At the feet, Marella High-shine Leather Boots recreate the clean aggression of the McQueen Birdee pair. They rise to the knee, narrow into a tapered toe and finish with a curved high heel. That sharpness is essential. A softer riding boot would pull the leopard skirt toward bohemian dressing, while a pointed stiletto boot keeps the entire lower line controlled and urban.

Karl Lagerfeld Sunglasses replace Dua’s Tom Ford Penn frames with similarly dark geometry around the eyes. Their straight upper edge reinforces the tailoring and gives the face enough structure to compete with the prints below.

For the bag, Longchamp Le Roseau in Yellow changes the shape while preserving the most important idea from Dua’s Louis Vuitton Speedy: one unapologetically bright handbag against an otherwise dark, patterned outfit. The compact top handles, smooth leather and signature bamboo-inspired toggle give Le Roseau a cleaner surface, allowing the color itself to become the statement. Longchamp has continued the line in vivid yellow and pistachio shades through its 2026 collections, making the choice especially convincing for this recreation.

That is the part worth recreating. Dua Lipa makes maximal styling readable by giving chaos a hierarchy. Keep the tailoring long and strict, let the animal print disrupt the center, sharpen the silhouette with black accessories, then allow one saturated bag to behave almost like an exclamation mark.