Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber, mother and daughter on the catwalk homage to Virgil Abloh

It is perhaps the first time that mother and daughter have paraded together. But what Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber they found themselves sharing it is not just any catwalk, but a tribute to memory and above all to the creativity mixed with the genius of one of the most acute designers of our time, Virgil Abloh.

Three months after his passing, Paris Fashion Week raises the curtain with Spaceship Earth, an ‘Imaginary Experience’, the parade of Off-Whitethe successful brand founded by Virgil in 2013, gathering for the occasion fashion goddesses of yesterday and today. As if it were a reflection of that continuum between past and future, between the powerful creative legacy left by Abloh and the fashion to come.

A bridge image, embodied by the calm, relaxed entrance, that of a true veteran of Cindy Crawford, among the queens of the nineties catwalks, who, wrapped in a fluffy tulle skirt, gives way to her daughter Kaia, just behind her, who treads the same footsteps in a sort of dance pop as her t-shirt says, but ready to take her future in her hands, holding it tight as she does with her smartphone.

Yesterday and today they travel on the same catwalk, without distinctions or fractures, the fuse of that one “Democratic and inclusive fashion revolution” lit by Virgil with this collection he conceived and designed.

And this is how the catwalk becomes a universal theater, which welcomes history and the future by mixing them in a cocktail of emotions, suggestions, evocations. The sisters Nice And Gigi Hadid share the scene with Naomi Campbell, Kendall Jenner with Helena Christensen, it’s still Joan Smalls And Karlie Kloss with Amber Valletta, and then Mariacarla Boscono, Bianca Balti, Candice Swanepoel, Lais Ribeiro, Carol Trentini. But also Serena Williams makes her entrance, a voice out of the chorus of the models, but a dear friend of the unforgettable designer, just as she writes on Instagram.

It was from 2017, the year of the Gianni Versace tribute fashion show, that the Olympians of the fashion scene were not seen, those who made the history of fashion shows, gathered on the same catwalk.

But fashion also does this. Virgil was able to do this too.

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