Dua Lipa wore a metallic gold corset outfit with fishnets and matching boots on her Radical Optimism Tour at Chase Center in 2025.
On October 11, 2025, Dua Lipa opened the first San Francisco night of her Radical Optimism Tour at the Chase Center. She appeared on stage in a metallic gold corset‑style outfit paired with fishnet stockings and matching gold boots. The ensemble was amplified by a dramatic feathered backdrop worn by her dancers, creating a tableau that blurred the line between concert and couture spectacle. The gleaming corset, with its sculpted lines and reflective finish, turned her into a literal beacon under the stage lights — a reminder of how celebrity style can function as both armor and performance.
Gold on stage has always been shorthand for triumph and excess, from Elvis’s gilded suits to Beyoncé’s gilded bodysuits. In 2025, its resurgence signals a hunger for maximalist optimism — a refusal of understatement in favor of spectacle. Lipa’s choice of metallic corsetry also nods to the lineage of pop divas who weaponize glamour as a form of control: Madonna’s Jean Paul Gaultier cone bras, Lady Gaga’s Haus of Gaga armor, and now Lipa’s gilded optimism. The feathers behind her, almost Vegas‑like in scale, reframed the concert as a hybrid of nightclub, runway, and ritual.
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