In a salmon-pink villa high on a hill above Cannes, the pop star Dua Lipa is describing the first time she sketched a dress for Donatella Versace, and sent it via text. “I can’t draw at all, so I don’t think it was very good,” she says. “But I think Donatella got what I was trying to do.” Versace nods. “I don’t normally work like this,” she laughs. “But I was like, ‘OK, she has a vision, and a talent. This can work.’”
Despite no design training and just a brief history as a model/muse for the storied Italian fashion house, Dua Lipa is the latest pop star to try her hand at designing a collection in what has become the era of the musician turned designer.
