The photographs Dua Lipa posted for her Vogue Italia September 2026 cover shoot are doing the rounds on Instagram, and they are working harder than the usual celebrity editorial. The look at the centre of the conversation features a bold dress with a large cutout across the front, worn over a sheer lace bralette, accessories reduced to a single delicate netted veil, and long black hair left loose with a centre parting.
But the images are worth pausing over for reasons beyond the styling choices themselves. According to Fashion Times, this is Lipa’s first appearance on the cover of the Italian edition, making the September issue a proper debut rather than a return. The cover look draws on two of the most legible names in the fashion and jewellery canon: Chanel and Bulgari.
Dua Lipa’s Vogue Italia shoot: the names behind the images
Fashion Times reports that the shoot was photographed by Carlijn Jacobs and styled by Imruh Asha, with New York as the location. Those credits matter. Jacobs has built a reputation for editorial work that is deliberate in its use of the body as compositional element, which helps explain why the sheer bralette and cutout dress read as considered rather than merely provocative. The minimal accessories, the veil, the unadorned hair, all of it serves the same logic: the image is structured so that there is nowhere else to look.
The instinct to reduce styling to its essentials while pairing it with immediately recognisable luxury names is a well-established tension in the September issue tradition. September, for any glossy, is the edition that functions as an argument for the season. Placing a new name on the cover for the first time in that slot is a choice, and pairing the look with Chanel and Bulgari is the magazine’s way of framing exactly what kind of argument it wants to make.
Fan response and the wider Vogue Italia moment
On Instagram, the post attracted thousands of likes and comments quickly. Fan responses ranged from the blunt (‘I’M SPEECHLESS’) to the more expansive: one commenter wrote, ‘I just love her. Confident, fit, gorgeous, and talent!!!!!!!!! Everything I’m not.’ Another simply described her as ‘Always a Goddess.’ These are not the responses of an audience processing an image dispassionately; they are recognising something they have decided to call confidence and attributing it, correctly or otherwise, to the person wearing the clothes.
Separate images from the same Vogue Italia shoot have also been circulating. Yahoo Entertainment reported on an outtake in which Lipa wore a monochrome bodysuit paired with mustard-yellow tights and Ferragamo’s Fall/Winter 2026 two-tone pointed pumps, featuring white leather contrasted by glossy black toe caps. Taken together, the images from the shoot cover a range of registers, from the pared-back sheer lace look to the more vividly coloured bodysuit outtake, which suggests a shoot with considerable range rather than a single fixed idea about what its subject should look like.
There is a broader context to the timing of all this, too. Fashion Times notes that Lipa married actor Callum Turner in Sicily earlier in 2026. A first Vogue Italia cover arriving in the same year carries a particular cultural weight: the September issue as a kind of portrait of a figure at a specific moment in their public life, rather than just a vehicle for clothes.
The September 2026 issue of Vogue Italia, featuring Lipa’s debut cover photographed by Carlijn Jacobs and styled by Imruh Asha, is the fullest statement of that framing. Whether the sheer lace bralette or the Chanel tweed is doing more of the work in that argument is, perhaps, exactly the question the shoot wants readers to keep arguing about.
