Cardi B puffed on a cigarette as she arrived at Vivienne Westwood’s Paris Fashion Week present on Saturday.
Attending the occasion the rapper, 31, noticed Irina Shayk strut down the catwalk as she modelled the luxurious model’s Spring Summer season 2025 assortment.
Cardi wore a busty mini gown, within the designers signature corset fashion, with a fishnet bodysuit layered beneath.
She boosted her top with a pair of towering platform boots and accessorised with a small tartan purse.
In the meantime, Irina, 38, seemed elegant in a plunging white double breasted blazer and matching broad leg trousers.
Cardi B puffed on a cigarette as she arrived at Vivienne Westwood’s Paris Trend Week present on Saturday
Attending the occasion the rapper, 31, noticed Irina Shayk strut down the catwalk as she modelled the luxurious model’s Spring Summer season 2025 assortment
The mannequin’s look was competed with a pair of silver flats and really refined make-up look.
As Trend queen Vivienne Westwood lay dying, she summoned fellow designer Jeff Banks to her bedside and made a monumental request: to safe her legacy by changing into a director of the corporate she had spent many years increase.
However lower than two years after Dame Vivienne’s demise, in July, Mr Banks was pressured out of the enterprise amid reviews of bitter in-fighting and a boardroom coup that has left the empire in chaos, The Mail on Sunday revealed.
The previous host of the BBC‘s Garments Present was ousted after disagreements over the route of the style home and issues that its founder’s legacy was below risk, insiders says.
‘It has made Home of Gucci appear to be Play Faculty,’ one well-placed supply stated in reference to the 2021 movie in regards to the vicious combat to manage the Italian style model.
On one facet of the cut up dividing Vivienne Westwood Ltd lies Mr Banks, a good friend of the late designer’s son Joe Corre. On the opposite is Carlo D’Amario, the corporate’s chief government, and Andreas Kronthaler, Dame Vivienne’s third husband and the label’s inventive director.
‘There is a mismatch between the heritage of Vivienne Westwood, the place it’s now and the place it’s going,’ one insider stated.
Dame Vivienne shot to fame by creating the Intercourse Pistols’ punk picture within the Seventies and went on to construct up a £70 million enterprise empire.
Cardi wore a busty mini gown, within the designers signature corset fashion, with a fishnet bodysuit layered beneath
The singer opted for a dramatic make-up look with a deep purple lipstick
She boosted her top with a pair of towering platform boots and accessorised with a small tartan purse
In the meantime, Irina, 38, seemed elegant in a plunging white double breasted blazer and matching broad leg trousers
However in the direction of the top, the designer, who was made a dame in 2006, had grown annoyed with how the label was being run, sources declare, and was stated to be engaged on a ebook venting her irritation.
She was stated to be significantly involved at a ‘toxicity’ inside the enterprise and that a few of its designs weren’t inventive sufficient.
‘It reached some extent the place Vivienne wished to close it down,’ one insider stated.
‘She at all times believed in high quality over amount. She would submit a load of designs and the sophisticated, inventive stuff can be ignored.
‘She and her designers can be distraught over all that point spent making lovely creations that may by no means be made.’
Days earlier than her demise in December 2022, aged 81, she summoned her longtime good friend Mr Banks to her hospital bedside.
‘I felt like Cardinal Wolsey going to see the monarch,’ he later stated.
Irina walked off the catwalk together with her arm round Vivienne’s widower and artistic director Andreas Kronthaler
As they chatted, she requested him to guard the model he had helped her set up within the late Nineteen Eighties.
However the MoS has discovered that Mr Banks, 81, was lately voted off the board of the holding firm and is now negotiating the phrases of his departure.
The insider stated Dame Vivienne ‘would flip in her grave on the considered Jeff being pushed out.’ Sources declare Mr Kronthaler supported the ousting of Mr Banks, who declined to remark this weekend.
Vivienne Westwood Ltd didn’t reply to repeated requests to remark.