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Gilding Lily... how star struck gold in fashion evolution
The Journal
|May 01, 2025
LILY Allen burst on to the music scene in 2006, and hits like Smile, LDN and Knock 'Em Out, saw her topping the charts.
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But it wasn't just her music that drew attention. Lily had a look we had never seen on a pop star before - pairing ballgowns with trainers and flat caps with eyeliner - her style soon became as iconic as her songs. Ahead of her 40th birthday on Friday, let's take a look back at her fashion evolution...
2006
After a year of uploading demos to the social media network MySpace, Lily debuted her album Alright, Still in July 2006. It was an immediate hit, with the singer performing at V Festival that August wearing an extravagant strapless pastel ballgown, with a silver chains white trucker cap.
2008
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