Lily Allen is serving some serious attitude with her recent outfits following the bombshell drop of her first album in seven years, West End Girl.
The Smile hitmaker, 40, released 14 songs detailing, semi-fictionally, the breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things star David Harbour, 50.
So far, the record is a roaring success. No other digital-only release by a British artist in 2025 has been streamed more times in its opening week, and it’s the UK’s most-downloaded album of the week.
West End Girl raised more than a few eyebrows, with songs including Madeline and Tennis accusing the actor of cheating and gaslighting, despite her opening up their relationship on his request.
Lily sings they had an arrangement, ‘be discreet and don’t be blatant / it had to be with strangers / there had to be payment,’ but that Harbour broke the trust with a co-worker called ‘Madeline’ – who is actually costume designer Natalie Tippet.
Salaciously, Lily also sings about Harbour’s New York apartment, which she nicknames ‘Pussy Palace’, where she ‘found a shoebox full of handwritten letters /From brokenhearted women wishing you could have been better’.
The Not Fair hitmaker also says she found a bag full of ’sex toys, butt plugs, and lube inside’, while criticising Harbour’s ‘double life’.
While Lily previously said she’d like to have children with David, in the album – which was met with rave reviews – the star sings about her husband considering getting a vasectomy, as she wonders whether he’d got a woman pregnant that’s not her.
It’s safe to say, Lily packed an awful lot of to-the-bone content into the album and fans are still eating it up a week on, so she must be feeling on top of the world.
Lily’s recent outfits certainly indicate that she’s feeling confident and powerful, as she stepped out at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards held at The American Museum of Natural History in New York wearing a thin bra and exposed midriff.
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The star coupled the risqué top with a low-waisted light skirt and dramatic cream shrug at the event, opting for her hair up in a spikey bun and natural makeup with a smoky eye.
Lily’s appearance comes after she fashioned an extremely pointed Halloween costume while attending a party at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, dressing up as the children’s book character Madeleine.
Written in 1939 by Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline follows a young girl living at a boarding school in Paris. It was later turned into a film starring Hatty Jones in 1998.
Channelling the character, Lily wore a blue, collard pea coat, which she paired with a red neckerchief, straw hat, Mary Jane shoes and bright orange wig.
Posting a video on social media, Lily strutted into a hallway to show off her costume, captioning it: ‘FOUND HER’.
This comes after American costume designer Natalie Tippett stepped forward as the woman behind the Madeline moniker.
After being approached by the Daily Mail and asked if she’d heard Lily’s new music, she ‘rolled her eyes’ and responded: ‘Of course I’ve heard the song.’
She went on: ‘I have a family and things to protect. I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and I understand this is going on. It’s a little bit scary for me.’
It’s been reported that Natalie and David met in the US during shooting for Netflix movie We Have a Ghost in 2021 and struck up an affair soon after.
In the song, Lily sings of Madeline: ‘She sings: ‘How long has it been going on? Is it just sex or is there emotion?/ He told me it would stay in hotel rooms, never be out in the open/ Why would I trust anything that comes out of his mouth?’ I’m not convinced that he didn’t f**k you in our house.’
Lily and David – who married in 2020 – split after she uncovered his affair and profile on celebrity dating app, Raya.
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