It’s been a while since Gisele Bündchen has popped up on the red carpet (since the Met Gala, in fact, when she ascended the museum steps in the bridal gown that closed Karl Lagerfeld’s spring/summer 2007 Chanel couture show). Following her divorce, Bündchen has largely been more about pura vida than pap shots, decamping to Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula to finish up her cookbook, Nourish, due out this spring.
And yet she came out of hibernation on December 8 for a night in Miami with Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen, having signed on as the brand’s Environmental & Community Projects Advisor last year. Although the street-style during Art Basel can lean…whatever the opposite of quiet luxury is, Gisele Bündchen paired her signature sun-kissed curls (cared for by BCO London’s Bernardo Vasconcelos) with a khaki short suit straight out of Shiv Roy’s Tribeca walk-in. Accessorized with an IWC timepiece and court shoes, it made her look polished, timeless, and like someone with both a very large Hamptons estate and an in-depth knowledge of SEC regulations.
