Olivia Rodrigo’s dress melted off her body onstage in a surprise costume change during the first night of her ‘Unraveled Tour’ on Friday night.
The “Drivers License” singer was performing her song “the cure” at People’s Bank Arena in Hartford, Conn., when artificial rain fell and caused her white sleeveless dress to gradually break apart as she continued singing.
Rodrigo, 23, stood onstage as her white dress separated from her outfit, eventually exposing a red corset bodysuit and micro miniskirt underneath, according to fan-shot footage.
“First night of the Unraveled Tour was magic!!!! Been planning this show out in my head for the last year and seeing it all come together was a dream come true,” Rodrigo posted on Instagram Saturday alongside images from the concert, including one of her melting dress.
“Thank you to everyone who came and showed so much love … Can’t wait to see more of yall on the road!!!!” she added.
As rain poured around her, the dress appeared to melt directly onto the stage as Rodrigo stretched out her arms and let the costume reveal unfold.
The onstage transformation played off “the cure” lyric “I’m unraveled,” tying the costume change to the name of her tour.
The dress was custom-designed for Rodrigo by Cyprus-born British designer Hussein Chalayan, who first created the water-reactive design for his Spring 2016 collection inspired by Cuba, according to Vogue.
Chalayan spent six months developing the dress, which reflected the country’s changing political and cultural landscape by using dissolving, uniform-like outer shells to reveal new possibilities underneath.
Rodrigo’s Hartford set featured six distinct looks and five costume changes, according to the Blast.
The concert was divided into seasonal chapters, opening in a colorful, garden-inspired Spring setting before moving through Summer, Autumn and Winter.
The production later shifted to a purple twilight for an acoustic section, where Rodrigo wore a purple leather dress.
The rain-soaked performance of “The Cure” served as the centerpiece of the Winter section.
Elsewhere during the concert, Rodrigo wore a white babydoll dress and a cropped graphic T-shirt paired with hot-pink micro minishorts, according to InStyle.
The North American tour will take Rodrigo to Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, North Carolina, Chicago, Boston and other cities.
She is scheduled to wrap the run in February with 10 shows at Barclays Center in Brooklyn from Feb. 11 through Feb. 28.
The “good 4 u” singer previously addressed the backlash over her babydoll dresses, saying she found it “really disturbing” that people were sexualizing her fully covered look.
“I didn’t think that I looked sexy in that at all. I was like, this is so cool. I feel like I look like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love, all these people who are my heroes,” Rodrigo told the New York Times’ “Popcast” in May.
The post Olivia Rodrigo’s dress melts off her body onstage during ‘Unraveled Tour’ concert in Connecticut appeared first on Page Six.
