“I always loved fashion – it’s not something new,” she said.

The Dionaissance, it’s been called, a phrase Dion herself approves of, even if she claims not to know precisely how it originated.

Yet something unexpected happened on this veteran entertainer’s path toward pastured irrelevance: Dion was reborn as a proudly avant-garde style icon known for flaunting audacious outfits on Instagram and at highly photographed events like May’s Met Gala in New York, where she was seen (and seen again) in an elaborate Oscar de la Renta get-up involving sequins, a feathered headpiece and what one fashion critic described as “sleeves draped in 3,000 strands of floor-length fringe made from micro-cut glass bugle beads.” Not unlike Vegas, which Dion helped rid of its musty Wayne Newton vibe, pop music has changed immeasurably since then Dion’s brand of ultra-polished uplift – as heard in chart-topping anthems like “The Power of Love,” “Because You Loved Me” and the Oscar- and Grammy-winning “My Heart Will Go On,” from “Titanic” – feels even further from today’s gloomy, hip-hop-attuned Top 40 than it did from the chipper late-’90s era of Hanson and the Spice Girls. It also comes after the conclusion earlier this year of Dion’s looong-term engagement at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where she began performing in 2003 (well before Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez came to town). 15 – marks the French Canadian singer’s return to the road following the death of her husband and manager, Rene Angelil, who died of throat cancer in 2016.

The Courage tour – scheduled to run through late 2020 and named after a new album she plans to release Nov. You can understand why Dion, 51, has well-being in mind. “It’s good for living,” she replied with a grin. “It can also go at the bottom of your coccyx, if I may say.” When it’s inflated, “you lay on it and it helps you to open the chest,” she said. What do you do with that? I asked Dion, who was dressed not at all casually in a black mesh top over a zebra-print skirt. So instead we settled into two chairs next to a Pilates machine and a shriveled-up rubber ball. Am I being a diva? No, right? Do you agree with me?” She wasn’t being a diva the sofa felt like a bus-stop bench. “This is the hardest couch I’ve ever sat on in my life. “Oh, not there,” Dion said as I went to take a seat.

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