Love That for Her: Cher, Just Being Cher

There’s never a bad time to appreciate the celebrities who (against all odds) seem to be having a little fun in their lives. So in our new column, Love That for Her, we’ll be celebrating the women absolutely nailing life right now—may their joie de vivre inspire us all.

Cher, Cher, Cher. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. In your first flush of fame, as the singer and style icon who swanned through the 1960s and ’70s with your swishy waist-length tresses and glitzy Bob Mackie gowns? Cher-mazing. As the star of stage and screen who has won best actress awards at the Oscars and Cannes? Some serious Cher-chievements. As a committed political voice who has thrown her weight behind causes from fighting the AIDS crisis to LGBTQ+ rights? Cher-ing is caring. And as a latter-day Twitter oracle, pontificating on the status of her career or urging her followers to “sit on their own damn face?” The Cher-nanigans! 

Okay, enough with the horrible puns. For while everyone knows that Cher is the master of reinvention—there’s that famous quote that after a nuclear holocaust, all that will survive is Cher and cockroaches—in recent months, she’s been something having a fashion renaissance. (When she outed herself as a fan of the up-and-coming London shoe designer Ancuta Sarca in 2020, perhaps we should have taken closer notice.)

First, she partnered with Donatella Versace on a pride campaign for the Italian label—in what may be the campest collaboration in fashion history—debuting a line of tees and baseball caps studded with rainbow-colored crystals in the form of the brand’s famous Medusa logo, emblazoned with (what else?) “Chersace.” Then, she took Paris Fashion Week by storm, closing the show at Balmain arm-in-arm with Olivier Rousteing, before starring in the campaign for the house’s Blaze bag earlier this week. So too did she make an appearance at the Rick Owens show rocking one of the season’s biggest trends by wearing a plaid skirt over matching trousers; and, somewhat inexplicably, a Royal Ascot-ready embellished fedora.