The bizarre rise of ‘convent dressing’ as Lily Allen and Sydney Sweeney lead celebrity fashion trend of dressing up as nuns – but real-life sisters say it’s ‘demeaning’
Nun’s the word, it seems, in the world of celebrity fashion trends these days.
And Lily Allen, 40, was the latest to indulge in a spot of ‘convent dressing’, wearing a nun’s habit and smoking a cigarette in the music video for her song P***y Palace, the seventh track on her new album, West End Girl.
Dressed in the familiar black-and-white garb and adding sheer tights, Allen reeled off the alleged indiscretions of her ex-husband, Stranger Things star David Harbour.
Her ironic take on the Catholic get-up is indicative of celebrity’s latest obsession – a phenomenon that was dubbed ‘nun-mania’ by Spanish paper El Pais.
From Madonna’s Like a Prayer video featuring stigmata and a kiss with a saint to Lady Gaga as Mary Magdalene going clubbing with Jesus in her son Judas, Catholic iconography has long been deeply embedded in popular culture.
Last year, actress Sydney…
