Cher showed off her incredibly ageless visage as she stepped out of her hotel ahead of the Dolce & Gabbana Alta Sartoria show in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday.
The Believe hitmaker, 79, cut a stylish figure in a long silver embellished jacket layered over a satin white shirt and leather trousers.
She cinched in her waist with a rhinestone belt and accessorised with a stack of silver statement necklaces.
Toting her belongings in a jewelled handbag, Cher appeared in great spirits as she headed to her cab to the glitzy event.
It comes just days after the singer and her boyfriend looked very much in love as they were spotted leaving a popular watering hole in Rome on Sunday.
The star, who had performed the night before at the Dolce and Gabbana party, held her boyfriend’s hand as they exited the famous Jackie O nightclub.
Cher showed off her incredibly ageless visage as she stepped out of her hotel ahead of the Dolce & Gabbana Alta Sartoria show in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday
The Believe hitmaker, 78, cut a stylish figure in a long silver embellished jacket layered over a satin white shirt and leather trousers
Cher looked relaxed wearing a white jacket and a pair of straight leg jeans with black and white sneakers. Her long, dark hair was styled in loose waves.
Edwards, 39, looked dapper in a long white and black animal print shirt over a pair of straight leg jeans and dark shoes. His short blonde hair was closely cropped.
The two have been dating for almost three years.
The couple appear to be going strong during their loved up vacation in Italy.
The pair met for the first time at Paris Fashion Week in October 2022. They were first seen holding hands in public a month later.
Edwards, a music executive at Universal Group, shares custody of his son, Slash, five, with ex-partner Amber Rose.
According to Rose, the two women get along well.
‘I’m very happy that [Alexander is] with Cher because it creates stability for when [our] son goes over there,’ she said on The Jason Lee Podcast in March 2024. ‘It’s not all mayhem and stuff.’
She cinched in her waist with a rhinestone belt and accessorised with a stack of silver statement necklaces
Toting her belongings in a jewelled handbag, Cher appeared in great spirits as she headed to her cab to the starry event
As an older woman, Cher has received more than a little pushback on the difference in her and Edwards’ ages, but that doesn’t seem to bother the unflappable icon.
Cher has dated several younger men over the years, including the late Val Kilmer and later his Top Gun co-star Tom Cruise.
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Cher and boyfriend Alexander Edwards hold hands at nightclub in Rome
In 1986, at age 40, the future Oscar winner a young baker named Rob Camilletti, who was 22 at the time.
Camilletti was her plus-one at the Academy Awards in 1988 for Moonstruck. The pair broke up the next year due to the media attention surround their relationship.
The Silkwood actress also dated Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora for about a year. The pair went their separate ways in 1990.
Amazingly, Cher has been able to remain friends with a good number of her exes.
She explained on the Table Manners podcast in December 2023: ‘I’m close with all of my exes. I’m really close.
‘Yeah. I have a feeling that you have to like someone a lot before you go to bed with them.’
Cher and Alexander met for the first time at Paris Fashion Week in October 2022. They were first seen holding hands in public a month later; Pictured in New York City in February
Cher has dated a number of younger men, including the late Val Kilmer (left), seen in June 1982, and Richie Sambora, right, seen in 1991
As for her penchant for younger men, Cher explained on The Jennifer Hudson Show in May 2024 it comes partly from necessity.
She said: ‘The reason I got with young men is because men my age are older—well, now they’re all dead—but before, they were always terrified to approach me, and younger men—they were raised by women like me.’
Back in February, Cher’s status as one of the world’s most legendary performers of stage and screen shone through once again when one of her iconic costumes sold for more than two-times than originally estimated at auction.
With over 200 lots up for grabs during the Julien’s Auctions Bold Luxury: The Limelight Edit, based in Beverly Hills, bidding turned into a fierce battle at times.
One of the highlights of the glitzy event turned out to be the Cher, stage-worn If I Could Turn Back Time costume, designed by Bob Mackie, that sparked controversy back in the day.
The revealing ensemble, which was first featured in the music video for her hit 1989 song, features a black, figure-hugging bodysuit, also dubbed a catsuit, with mesh cutouts, that was often paired with a black leather jacket and knee-high boots.
Originally estimated to sell for between $60,000 and $80,000, a ‘heated bidding war’ erupted during the exhilarating live and online auction, ultimately resulting in the Cher ensemble selling for a whopping $162,500.
After debuting in the If I Could Turn Back Time music video, which was shot on board of the battleship USS Missouri, where it showed her straddling a cannon and her tattooed buttocks, the revealing number set off a wave of controversy.
Cher’s iconic, stage-worn If I Could Turn Back Time costume just sold for a whopping $162,500, which was more than two-times than estimated at Juliens Auctions
In fact, some military personnel condemned the video, directed by the late Marty Callner, while other family groups protested against its broadcast, because they deemed it offensive for the Navy.
In the wake of those protests many television networks refused to show it due to the singer’s revealing outfit, including MTV in July 1989.
Eventually the massive music television network amended the move by allowing the video to be shown only after 9 pm, but by then Cher was already reaping the rewards of the controversy as a must see.
The pop rock, or soft rock, song was written specifically for Cher by Diane Warren, who produced it in collaboration with Guy Roche.
Featuring instrumentation from guitars, piano and drums, it received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who applauded its overall production and Cher’s vocal performance.
Some critics and fans even considered it to be a highlight of her Heart Of Stone (1989) studio album, which was the nineteenth at that point in her career.
Commercially, Heart of Stone turned out to be a milestone for her when it reached number 10 in the United States, which was a first for her as a solo artist.