Kylie Jenner and her daughter Stormi Webster were the toast of Paris’ Haute couture week, causing a commotion when they swished in — like a Giovanni Boldini portrait – wearing ink black gowns and matching, feathery plumes to the Valentino collection on Wednesday (January 23) night.
Jenner also attended the Jean Paul Gaultier and Maison Margiela couture collections last week, but left her child, whose father is rapper Travis Scott, at home. It may well have been to 5-year-old Stormi's delight, then, that she made the call up today, January 29, for a celebrity-studded, off-schedule Jacquemus ready-to-wear show.
The collection, entitled Les Sculptures, was shown in the further-flung foothills of the sunny, southern French hills, taking over the Fondation Maeght, the great modern art museum 40 minutes north of Cannes. No stranger to a catwalk show, the venue (replete with Giacometti statues and Miró paintings as sophisticated backdrops) hosted a Louis Vuitton collection in 2018.
Today, fashion's mother-daughter du jour were visions in red, led by Jenner in bright cherry mini dress from the French brand. It came backless with swathes wrapped around padded shoulders, and dressed up with matching shade, patent sling backs with bow fronts, PVC cat-eye shades and a lunch-box-esque handbag. Other notable members of the front row included Julia Roberts, Jack Harlow, Kristin Davis and Jenna Lyons.
The faces were equally familiar on the catwalk which, in design terms, represented a smart step forward for Simon Porte Jacquemus, one of the designers rumoured to be in contention for the Givenchy creative director vacancy, following Matthew Williams’ departure this year. Gigi Hadid walked, her first show since the latest Miu Miu collection in October last year, as did Emily Ratajkowski and Amelia Gray, the model daughter of Real Housewives star Lisa Rinna.
Call Gray a nepo baby but Stormi was the only silver-spooned offspring turning heads. Next stop, New York Fashion Week?
The best of the front row at Jacquemus' Les Sculptures show:
