She's also revealed an enthusiastic love for fashion that's won the industry over. Sitting front row at the Giambattista Valli show in 2016, she whooped her way through as if it were a football game.

In July 2017, she modeled the latest couture off the Paris runways in a video for Vogue, dancing, singing and just being unabashedly cool, quirky and carefree. Last January, she wept watching the Valentino haute couture show.

No one quite saw Dion's style transformation coming: the singer has always been more revered for her ballads than her wardrobe. But the admiration for her transformation runs deep.

This is due in part to the fact that Dion's reinvention -- which she's achieved with the help of former "image architect" Law Roach and current stylists Pepe Muñoz and Sydney Lopez -- came after the loss of her husband, Rene Angélil, and brother Daniel, who died of cancer within two days of each other in 2016. In light of those circumstances, her fashion rebirth takes on more mature, personal tones.

But there's more to it than that. With her bold choices, Dion has established herself as a true risk-taker who clearly enjoys and has fun with fashion -- something that's increasingly hard to come by as trends skew toward the minimal and cynical. Dion looks like she's having the time of her life.

Watching her Paris adventures, one has to wonder whether Dion has always been a fashion icon in the making. Whatever the case, we're certainly glad she's taken her place in the spotlight.