Pierpaolo Piccioli took the fashion crowd to Chateau de Chantilly, the magnificent castle north of Paris, this week, where Kaia Gerber opened his Valentino autumn/winter 2023 Haute Couture show wearing jeans and a white shirt, with shoulder-grazing crystal earrings and silver mules adorned with giant bows. This is couture, so of course the jeans were actually encrusted with tiny micro-crystals, and the shirt required weeks and weeks of careful construction.
The model, 21, was photographed leaving Chantilly after the show wearing the opening look from Valentino’s autumn/winter 2023 ready-to-wear collection. Gerber wore a black thigh-grazing minidress with a halter neckline which is a quirky spin on a shirt and tie (“black tie” was the theme of the collection).
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She styled the dress exactly as it was worn on the runway, with a pair of glossy, chunky boots with a square toe—a hint at the boot style everyone will be searching out this coming season. Kaia’s had a thick sole and were fitted at the ankle, making them an ideal choice to toughen up mini hemlines.
