Bella Hadid opened the haute couture segment of Virgil Abloh’s final Off-White show dressed as the bride. Not just any fantasy bride. Virgil’s bride. We have seen the creative director’s wedding fashion play out on high-profile clients before, such as Hailey Bieber, but this was Abloh’s idiosyncratic way of doing big day dressing.
Bella opened the haute couture element of Off-White’s tribute to Virgil Abloh, which saw A$AP Rocky, Rihanna and Pharrell sit in the audience.
Peter WhiteFor starters, the bride wore trainers. Hadid’s pouffe of a white wedding dress, which riffed on a traditional couture silhouette but modernised it with a mini hemline at the front, revealed a pair of thick-soled lace-ups underneath – the kind that were made for stomping about in and not giving two hoots about the train getting grubby. In her hand? Her heels: a pair of sculptural heeled sandals that were almost as covetable as the crystal-encrusted card holder clutched in her other hand. If you didn’t get the vibe that this newlywed was out for a good time, then the veil draped over her baseball cap that read “BABE” certainly spelled it out.