Dua Lipa Talks Radical Optimism Debut in ELLE US May 2024 Lensed by Dan Beleiu AOC Fashion

Top talent Dua Lipa [IG], also identified as a 2024 TIME 100 artist, covers the May 2024 issue of ELLE US — The Music Issue. Writing her TIME 100 bio, music legend Patti Smith described her as a ‘Ringmaster’ who is “driven, independent, and possesses a desire for knowledge”.

Patti Wilson styles “the queen of the dance floor’ in Alaïa, Dior, Haimana, Marc Jacobs and more for Dua Lipa: If It’s Not Fun, I Don’t Want It’, lensed by Dan Beleiu [IG]. Suzy Exposito conducts the interview.

Dua Lipa’s 3rd studio album ‘Radical Optimism’ is out May 3, 2024.

My own radical optimism has been renewed with deliberateness in 2024 — not only in response to Donald Trump and the Republican War on Women — but in response to absolute binary thinking among progressives.

The World Hurts . . .

The world is far more complex than our 22-year-old students at America’s top universities — or their 70-year-old grandparents in some cases — are willing to express. Reading ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ now [written by two Democrats], I understand just how out-of-control the situation is on all sides.

Neither America’s ardent right-wing or our very rigid left-wing wants to deal with the reality around us, which is nuanced.

Then again, when your God is better than my God, human-declared wars have defined global history with unbelievable suffering and inhumanity for thousands of years. Only one God wins in this zero-sum game.