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After moonlighting as a mob wife in the music video for her new single “Please Please Please”—which also doubled as the hard-launch of her relationship with Barry Keoghan—Sabrina Carpenter has embraced the Y2K aesthetic fitting for her Polly Pocket persona during a date night out in London.
The songstress and Irish actor dined at the ritzy Marylebone restaurant Chiltern Firehouse, a locale that’s also hosted the likes of Margot Robbie, Paul Mescal, Sophie Wilde and Victoria Beckham, following her set at Wembley Stadium.
Though Carpenter leant into the ‘blokette’ aesthetic required for a performance in the United Kingdom—read: a Claudia Schiffer-approved chainmail Versace mini dress layered under England’s football jersey—the songstress’ evening wear ensemble was pulled straight from the closet of our favourite silicon dream house.
For the low-key outing, the 25-year-old donned a coquettish tank top from NYC downtown darling Sandy Liang’s collaboration with Heaven By Marc Jacobs. The mint-coloured singlet featured a keyhole cutout, with an oversized satin bow and diamante sequin embellishments adorning the centre. It may be a sweeter variant of the acidic ‘brat’ green we’ve seen dominating the zeitgeist after Charli XCX’s album release of the same name, but it’s this pastel noughties hue that makes the look nostalgic.
Carpenter might have modernised the silhouette with the addition of oversized glasses, a black leather shacket and denim jeans, but it’s not hard to imagine Paris Hilton or Nicole Ritchie wearing this exact look walking down Rodeo Drive in 2005—especially factoring her accessory choice, a Louis Vuitton Speedy Bandoulière 20 in pink opal.
The “Espresso” singer’s on-stage designer wardrobe might be filled with deep cuts and rare finds of Roberto Cavalli, but her street style is proving to have the lexicon of a nascent fashion savant, too. Last month, Carpenter was one of the few ‘It’ girls pioneering the return of the bubble skirt, stepping out in Miu Miu’s white variant of the undulating shape.
Keoghan, on the other hand, appeared to be dressed like he had just come from a Kneecap concert, which for the uninitiated is a Northern Ireland rap group. Yes, Hailey and Justin Bieber are proof that an antithetical couple style is possible in a happy relationship. But we’d argue Carpenter and Keoghan are the 2024 version of the couple early 2000s pop-punk singer Avril Lavigne was singing about in her single “Sk8er Boi”. He was a punk, she did ballet, indeed.
While we beg the powers at be to ‘please, please, please’ restock the sold-out collaboration, shop Carpenter’s plastic fantastic ensemble below:
