Rina Lipa has just found out that Pierpaolo Piccioli—the man who designed the look she graduated from Goldsmiths University wearing—has separated from Valentino after more than 25 years at its helm. “No, no!” she says, gasping. “Wait, that’s insane. I can’t believe it! Has StyleNotCom posted about it?” The aspirant actor is phoning Vogue mere weeks after she made her debut in the April edition of British Vogue alongside FKA twigs, Lila Moss, and Ayo Edebiri, the aftermath of which she describes as being “so surreal!”
But to certain corners of the internet—i.e. pop culture Twitter, now X—it’s her holidays with sister Dua for which she is best known, their various uploads from the Greek islands loveable meme fodder. “It’s actually too funny!” she said during the interview for her April profile. “Dua’s my biggest teacher and I’m so in awe of her work ethic, which is why we laugh at all those memes that say all she does is go on holiday and eat olive oil ice cream. The thing is, we’re in on the joke. If we’re in India, reading our books or whatever, I’m just like, ‘It’s fine Dua, you can enjoy it. Take the time off.’”
It’s India where the Lipa family’s latest batch of travel photos are arriving from. “I think that was the first time we’ve ever just had two weeks to adventure and explore somewhere together,” Lipa says of the trip, which stretched from 1920s palaces in Jodhpur to elephant sanctuaries in Jaipur to floating hotels in Udaipur. “It just worked because we were all so excited, but we also understood each other’s boundaries. If we were in the car for three hours, the headphones were very much in! As kids, the Lipas would visit places like Montenegro and Albania, and Lipa still feels as though “something’s not quite right” if there isn’t a group trip to southern Albania during the summer months. “Most of our holidays are spent reading on the beach, and so I didn’t have all that many expectations going into this one. But I was struck by the harmony in which everyone in Rajasthan lives. It’s a secular state, so everyone follows different religions, but at the same time everyone is just so spiritual.”
Below, Rina Lipa shares a couple of snaps from the most recent Lipa vacation. “The family group chat,” she says, “is popping off.”