Sashaying along one of London's most chic streets dressed head-to-toe in high-end couture, Lily Allen strikes an elegant image on her debut as a fashion muse – so very different from the way the singer looked not long ago when her hedonistic lifestyle threatened both her career and her health.
Just five years back, with her first marriage having collapsed, she was pictured eagerly swigging from a whiskey bottle and then from a can of cider at the Notting Hill Carnival.
But today, the 36-year-old mother-of-two, with her neat figure and carefully contoured cheekbones, cuts a much more wholesome figure, with top fashion brands now lining up to have her wear their clothes.
As well as being hired by Fendi's artistic director Kim Jones – Victoria Beckham's best friend – Allen was paid a five-figure fee by Dior to post pictures of its products on social media.
Lily Allen has been hired by Fendi's artistic director Kim Jones and was also paid a five-figure fee by Dior to post pictures of its products on social media
Lily's pride at how her life has turned around, and at how she recently achieved two years of sobriety from alcohol and drugs, is obvious from the pictures she shares with her 1.5 million Instagram followers.
Instead of non-stop partying, her life now consists of early morning online workouts, boxing sessions then breakfasts of goji berries.
'Having reformed her habits, Lily has suddenly found herself in demand from classy fashion brands,' says someone who knows her well.
She's also making her West End debut in the play 2:22 – A Ghost Story and has been busy promoting the production on TV.
In June, Lily returned to the UK following a stint in New York where she and her second husband, 46-year-old American actor David Harbour, spent time with the two young daughters from her previous marriage to decorator Sam Cooper.
She is also preparing to release her next album, in which every song, as this newspaper previously revealed, will be named after a man in the music industry who she says has taken advantage of her.
She made a very public stand after her record label failed to act when she told them that she had been sexually assaulted by an industry figure in 2016 at a hotel in the Caribbean.
Having lost all confidence in music industry bosses, Allen is funding the new album herself by selling her clothes on second-hand fashion website Depop.
Allen, 36, is also preparing to release her next album, in which every song will be named after a man in the music industry who she says has taken advantage of her
The mother-of-two has recently achieved two years of sobriety from alcohol and drugs and her life now consists of early morning online workouts, then breakfasts of goji berries
Friends say: 'She was hurt a lot. Such behaviour wounds young women very deeply but Lily is now turning the experience round and dealing with it in a cathartic way. Writing the album has massively helped her cope with it.'
Earlier this year, Allen recalled her bad days, saying: 'I was 14 stone and did not feel like a pop star at all. So I started taking this drug called Adderall, which is like speed, to lose the weight. I got addicted to it because it made
