Adele Wore a 70-Pound Gown for Her ‘I Drink Wine’ Music Video

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, Adele has finally dropped her music video for “I Drink Wine,” and it’s her most fashion-forward visual yet. Depicting the platinum artist floating down a river in an inner tube—glass of rosé in hand—the “overnight water shoot” was directed by Joe Talbot and features the Grammy winner in a sequined Valentino gown weighing a cool 70 pounds.“[Joe] and I discussed the treatment he created,” stylist Jamie Mizrahi of the look on Instagram, “[and] we went back and forth on ideas for the ‘I Drink Wine’ dress.

It was important that the color contrasted perfectly with the water Adele would be floating in the entire video.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Enter Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli, who collaborated with Mizrahi to find the best shade and most flattering silhouette for the inner tube shots. “With a 10-day turnaround, the [Maison Valentino] team delivered us a sparkly, beautifully crafted creation in the exact right shade of green.

The ideal ‘I Drink Wine’ dress.” Adding yet more sparkle? Lorraine Schwartz earrings shaped like blossoms and encrusted with diamonds.Perfect as the dress may have been, it presented logistical difficulties during filming—with Mizrahi noting that it had to be blow-dried in between every single take. “The patience, laughter, hysterics and love that was present throughout this entire process is what I’ll remember forever.”For her part, Adele posted a string of behind-the-scenes images from the set including one of herself mid-cackle as she floats downstream and another as she refills her glass.