There’s always been something thrilling about watching Rosalía reinvent herself. From Motomami’s raw defiance to Lux’s quiet luminosity, her eras unfold less like chapters and more like metamorphoses — each one a conversation between sound, spirit, and silhouette. And at the Los40 Music Awards in Valencia, Spain, the artist’s next visual statement came to life — courtesy of Balenciaga’s new creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Her look? A masterclass in contradictions. A cropped, fringed top — featherlight in texture yet sculptural in structure — paired with a sweeping, low-rise ball skirt that teased nostalgia for early-2000s rebellion. Fastened by a Balenciaga logo belt, the ensemble flirted with the era of “bumsters” and barely-there waistlines — an audacious wink to the McQueen generation that dared to redefine proportion.
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But the pièce de résistance wasn’t the skirt or the silhouette; it was the eyewear — or, more precisely, the otherworldly goggles. Crystallized to the point of surrealism, the bug-eye design wrapped her forehead like a futuristic tiara, a direct nod to Balenciaga’s storied experimentation and Demna’s unapologetic love of distortion. It was Rosalía’s Motomami attitude — refracted through Lux’s celestial light.
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Throughout her career, the Spanish icon has used fashion as a language of evolution. The leather, latex, and moto gear of Motomami told stories of rebellion and self-possession. With Lux, she turns the volume down but keeps the pulse steady — embracing ethereal shapes, muted palettes, and couture craft as symbols of introspection. Her wardrobe now reads like a bridge between worlds: where rebellion matures into reverence, and edge finds grace.
In Rosalía’s universe, style isn’t merely accompaniment; it’s authorship. Whether wrapped in Vivienne Westwood’s sculpted romanticism or draped in Thom Browne’s architectural whimsy, she continues to wield fashion as both mirror and muse. And with Balenciaga as her latest collaborator, it’s clear: the Lux era is not just about sound — it’s about the light she’s learning to move within.
