Avril Lavigne on the Backpack That Helped Shape Her Signature Style

Very like one in all her signature songs, Avril Lavigne at all times wished her fashion to be something however peculiar. 

After greater than 20 years within the music business, the 39-year-old Canadian singer has formed a profession and picture uniquely her personal. As Lavigne recalled in her rETrospective, it was that means from the beginning, all the way down to the bag of non-public equipment she introduced alongside to her first photograph shoots. 

“I simply wished to be comfy. I did not need to costume like peculiar or, you understand, too plain,” she tells ET of her trend-setting private fashion. “I used to be undoubtedly in contact with my sportier, extra tomboy facet, so I used to be sporting a variety of, like, sort of skateboarding garments and hoodies and dishevelled pants.”

Whereas she acknowledged all of it wasn’t fairly what her dad and mom most popular her to put on, the followers felt otherwise. “I bear in mind taking part in my first live performance at just a little membership and looking the window and seeing followers lined up down the road all dressed like me — tank high, necktie, straight hair, black eyes — and I used to be similar to, I needed to do a double take like, ‘Wait, what’s going on right here?'”

For her earliest photograph shoots, Lavigne made certain these trademark equipment have been inside attain. “I might present as much as a photograph shoot with a ebook bag with all my spiked bracelets and ties and a pair shirts and so they undoubtedly wished me to put on the garments that that they had there,” she recalled. “First album, I used to be like, ‘I am not sporting pink and a shirt… Please, I do not need to put on that,’ so it was a little bit of a combat, however some individuals have been cool about it, so I might simply take my ebook bag, dump it on the ground, and simply be like, ‘However see, I got here with these items,’ however that is not the way it works. You must put on these garments, however there was at all times a contented medium.”

Regardless of any outdoors efforts, Lavigne’s distinctive punk look was right here to remain and has come to epitomize her profession. Not matter its numerous varieties, Lavigne’s followers have remained loyal to the sk8er lady vibe. 

“Over time, it was actually cool to see as my fashion modified or no matter my vibe was — if I had pink in my hair like within the ‘Girlfriend’ video, I might present up with the totally different album cycles and do these excursions after which see a variety of the viewers dressed like that and that album cycle,” she acknowledges, “and so they nonetheless do.”

When the eight-time GRAMMY nominee kicks off her Best Hits tour on Might 22 in Vancouver, she’ll come nose to nose along with her followers as soon as once more, serenading them with beloved singles like “Sophisticated,” “Girlfriend” and “Sk8er Boi.”

“The entire set record is singles, which to be sincere, that is a spot that I strived to be at, particularly on my first album as a result of I solely had, like, three singles,” she recalled. “From day one, I wished to have the ability to have my complete present to be all singles and now I’ve that and I am very happy with that.”

Forward of opening evening, go down reminiscence lane with Lavigne and watch her rETrospective above!

Tickets for Lavigne’s The Best Hits tour are on sale now. 

RELATED CONTENT: