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This summer, the pop star is involved in her most

ambitious tour ever, Radical Optimism Tour, which set

sail from Asia and Oceania to reach Europe and will

make the Americas dance all night in the fall.

21st-century music is not only music. Dua Lipa Service95, her podcast At Your Service, and a book club
isn’t either. While she continues to add milestones and in which she interviews the writers of her favorite
successes to her artistic path – see Wembley Stadium books. There was, in fact, a book behind the start of
and Madison Square Garden in the map of her Radical her relationship with British actor and model Callum
Optimism Tour or the eclectic list of collaborations – Turner. When they first started dating, they found out
her spectrum is much broader than the dark pop she that they were both reading Trust by Hernán Díaz (in
likes to define her songs as. an interview earlier this month in British Vogue, Dua
The artist has been a model in the fashion world Lipa confirmed their engagement).
for years: stylists and brands go to any length to dress In the early summer, while dancing from stage
her (in her latest concerts, she has taken the stage with to stage, she was also spotted at the Paris Haute Cou-
clothes by Jean Paul Gaultier, Valentino, Balenciaga, ture Week. She was wearing a stunning animal-in-
The Attico, and Chanel); her posts are style mantras spired dress at Schiaparelli’s show. No tigers, lions,
for her followers (88 million on Instagram alone); and bears, but Dua Lipa looked like a dove, covered
and her activity as an influencer also touches on cul- in white feathers. Radically optimistic and, naturally,
ture and social engagement, thanks to her newsletter a bit dark.

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