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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Livvy Dunne puts stalker hell behind her for jaw-dropping catwalk move at Miami Sports Illustrated show
Livvy Dunne made her runway debut on Saturday night - and stunned attendees of a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Party with a big move to finish her walk. Dunne, who became a cover star for this year's edition of SI Swimsuit - was given the honor of opening the fashion show and graced the catwalk in two different looks And the former gymnast left the crowd in shock at one point when she effortlessly performed a split. The move earned massive cheers from those in attendance at the Miami party before Dunne raised her arms and twirled around. Dunne, the NIL star at LSU who announced her retirement from gymnastics earlier this year, re-posted several moments from the show to her Instagram story, and also revealed she had only found out about her opening spot just hours before the show. Dunne's sister, Julz, posted a photo of a stunned Livvy with her hand over her mouth after finding out the news. 'the face of a girl who just found out... she's opening the show!,' Julz captioned the Instagram story. Dunne, who recently attended an SI Swimsuit Party in New York as well, called being a cover girl a 'dream come true' when her cover was released last month. On Saturday, she walked for the show in two different looks, first pairing a zebra print pair of bottoms with a white cut-off t-shirt, before she performed her stunning split in a black polka dot bathing suit. However, her success with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit comes amid her disturbing claim that she is being stalked by a group of middle-aged men at airports across America. The 22-year-old made the shock allegations in a TikTok video posted on Friday night. Dunne said the group of men harass her for an autograph, and even claimed they 'run after me' through security and will 'yell at me' if she doesn't sign their items. Speaking directly to the camera, Dunne said: 'I think I'm being stalked and I don't know what to do. It's got to the point every single time I go to the airport, there's a group of at least 10 middle-aged men waiting for me, and they harass me. 'It's these men that want my autograph. They have a stack of 40 pictures of me or my magazines and they will run after me down the TSA PreCheck line and yell at me if I don't give them my autograph, it's insane. A tearful Dunne claimed she is being stalked by a group of middle-aged men at airports 'But they will yell at me and make a scene and the people around me are scared. It's crazy. Even this morning was a terrible experience.' Dunne then showed a video of her crying in what looked to be the back of a taxi leaving an airport. She continued: 'This is me literally crying, fresh off a red eye at 6am. They circled me at the baggage claim and were in my face. It's not only when I'm going to big events, it's if I'm going on family vacation, they're waiting there. 'It's something with the airline and it's weird and my parents are like "what the f***?" 'The worst part is, it's not only me. I remember Gabby Thomas made a video about this and it needs to stop because it's scary for girls. It's weird.
The Guardian
28-05-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Dior show packs drama and intrigue for Maria Grazia Chiuri's love letter to Rome
Dior's first catwalk show in Rome was a night of high drama on and off the catwalk that left the fashion industry with a cliffhanger ending. Borrowing the original working title of Federico Fellini's film 8 ½, Maria Grazia Chiuri, designer of Dior since 2016, called it 'The Beautiful Confusion.' She was talking about Rome, with its heady jumble of art, culture, faith and mopeds, and about a collection in which haute couture pieces were mixed with theatrical costumes. But there was also an inescapable allusion to the question of her own future of Dior. Even before the show opened, operatically coded with models in Venetian masks and knots of Eyes Wide Shut lace pageanting at nightfall through the central parterre of a villa packed with Roman antiquities, the evening was ablaze with intrigue. Chiuri was born and began her career in Rome, and the deeply personal nature of the show, which was a passionate love letter to her home city, fuelled longstanding rumours that this was orchestrated as a swansong. Chiuri has tripled sales at Dior during her nine-year tenure, but the Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson, recently appointed to lead menswear design at the house, is seen as waiting in the wings to assume complete creative control of the house. The plot thickened when it emerged that this cruise collection would also include looks from the autumn haute couture collection, which would normally be under wraps until July, putting a question mark over Dior's plans for the next Paris season. Like a Fellini film, there was no neat ending. The evening finished without official news, and with Dior's next chapter unwritten. But if it was a farewell, it was a fond and fabulous one for a designer whose progressive vision of fashion's power to platform feminism, female artists and the under-celebrated history of female creativity has been a gamechanger for her industry. Guests had been issued with a dress code – white for women, black for men – taken from a white ball thrown in 1930 by the Roman patron Mimì Pecci-Blunt – 'an extraordinary woman who loved the arts', Chiuri said before the show. The effect was to synthesise the front row with a collection that was 90% white, drawing the audience into the story. Each outfit brought the drama: a tailcoat suit with tiny ivory silk buttons; silvered latticework fit for a Renaissance princess, translucent classical gowns that looked like marble goddesses come to life; liturgical pomp in capes and collars tipping a hat to the Vatican in its jubilee year. The 450-strong guest list was heavily tilted toward Chiuri's friends and family, and luminaries of the Roman fashion and art world. Sign up to Fashion Statement Style, with substance: what's really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved after newsletter promotion 'My last show in Rome was for another brand, and it was over 10 years ago, so this is a big emotional moment for me,' Chiuri said before the show. The storytelling on the catwalk had close links to a personal project that Chiuri and her daughter Rachele Regini have masterminded and financed independent of Dior. The pair have renovated Teatro della Cometa, a 233-seat experimental theatre that was founded by Mimì Pecci-Blunt and became a cultural hotspot in the city when it opened in 1958, but closed just eleven years later after a fire. Drama aside, however, there are more prosaic possible explanations for Dior staging a show in Rome. Christian Dior himself loved the country, declaring in a letter home from holiday in Capri in 1957 that 'this is paradise!' More pragmatically, Italy has been the chosen destination for several luxury houses this year, with Gucci and Chanel staging shows in Lake Como and Florence respectively. In a challenging economic environment, the timeless elegance of Italy is seen as a reliably desirable backdrop for fashion.
CNA
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNA
Dior shows Maria Grazia Chiuri's cruise collection in Rome
French fashion house Dior showed creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri's cruise 2026 and fall-winter haute couture 2026 collections at a fashion show in the gardens of the Villa Albani Torlonia in Rome on Tuesday (May 27) at night. Guests sat under transparent umbrellas as models marched past on a gravel walkway lined with hedges. They paraded sheer gowns covered with lacework, textured dresses with rows of ruffles and long, tailored coats - mostly in white, ivory and nude colours. A sharp-shouldered trench coat, military jackets and tailcoats over skirts brought contrast to the airy looks, as did a few dresses in red or black velvet. After the show, Chiuri rounded the gardens for her bow as the audience stood, cheering and clapping, while mist rose from the gardens. The catwalk presentation, which drew on references to Italian cinema and theatre, follows last week's cruise fashion show from Louis Vuitton, another LVMH-owned label, in Avignon, France.
