Cardi B puffed on a cigarette as she arrived at the Vivienne Westwood show at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday.
Attending the event, the rapper, 31, spotted Irina Shayk strutting down the runway while modeling the luxury brand’s Spring Summer 2025 collection.
Cardi wore a busty minidress, in the designer’s signature corset style, with a fishnet bodysuit underneath.
She boosted her height with a pair of sky-high platform boots and accessorized them with a small tartan bag.
Meanwhile, Irina, 38, looked stylish in a white double-breasted jacket and matching wide-leg pants.
Cardi B puffed on a cigarette as she arrived at the Vivienne Westwood show at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday.
Attending the event, the rapper, 31, watched Irina Shayk strut down the runway while modeling the luxury brand’s Spring Summer 2025 collection.
The model’s look competed with a pair of silver flats and a very subtle makeup look.
As fashion queen Vivienne Westwood lay dying, she called fellow designer Jeff Banks to her bedside and made a monumental request: secure her legacy by becoming a director of the company she had spent decades building.
But less than two years after Dame Vivienne’s death in July, Banks was forced out of the business amid reports of bitter infighting and a boardroom coup that has left the empire in chaos. revealed The Mail on Sunday.
The former presenter of the BBC’s Clothes Show was sacked after disagreements over the direction of the fashion house and concerns that its founder’s legacy was under threat, insiders say.
“He’s made House of Gucci look like Play School,” said one well-placed source, referring to the 2021 film about the fierce fight for control of the Italian fashion brand.
On one side of the divide dividing Vivienne Westwood Ltd is Banks, a friend of the late designer’s son, Joe Corre. On the other, Carlo D’Amario, CEO of the company, and Andreas Kronthaler, Dame Vivienne’s third husband and creative director of the label.
“There is a mismatch between Vivienne Westwood’s heritage, where she is now and where she is going,” a source said.
Dame Vivienne rose to fame creating the Sex Pistols’ punk image in the 1970s and went on to build a £70million business empire.
Cardi wore a busty minidress, in the designer’s signature corset style, with a layered fishnet bodysuit underneath.
The singer opted for a spectacular makeup look with a deep purple lipstick.
She boosted her height with a pair of sky-high platform boots and accessorized with a small tartan bag.
Meanwhile, Irina, 38, looked stylish in a white double-breasted jacket and matching wide-leg pants.
But towards the end, the designer, who was made a dame in 2006, became frustrated with the way the brand was run, sources claim, and was said to be working on a book to vent her irritation.
She was said to be particularly concerned about “toxicity” within the business and that some of her designs were not creative enough.
“It got to a point where Vivienne wanted to close it,” a source said.
‘She always believed in quality over quantity. It featured a lot of designs and the complicated and creative things were overlooked.
“She and her designers would be distraught over all that time spent creating beautiful creations that would never be made.”
Days before his death in December 2022, aged 81, he called his old friend Mr Banks to his hospital bed.
“I felt as if Cardinal Wolsey was going to see the monarch,” he later said.
Irina walked off the runway hugging widower and Vivienne creative director Andreas Kronthaler.
Cardi then joined the designer backstage.
Also present was Mary Charteris, who was wearing a cropped top and trousers.
She styled her pink dyed hair in soft waves.
Paramore’s Hayley Williams turned heads in a spectacular dress with puffed sleeves and 18th century-style makeup.
Pam Hogg opted for a leather-look swimsuit
Lucky Love wore a peculiar outfit with very daring pants
Thalia Besson dazzled in a shirt dress and a corset
Andreas looked stylish in a blue shirt and striped skirt.
Dazed magazine founder Jefferson Hack was accompanied by his wife Anna Cleveland.
The models walked the catwalk in low-cut dresses
As they talked, she asked him to protect the brand he had helped her establish in the late 1980s.
But the Treasury has learned that Banks, 81, was recently ousted from the holding company’s board and is now negotiating the terms of his departure.
The source said Dame Vivienne ‘would turn in her grave at the thought of Jeff being kicked out.’ Sources claim Kronthaler supported the dismissal of Banks, who declined to comment this weekend.
Vivienne Westwood Ltd did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
In July, design legend Jeff Banks was forced to leave the brand amid reports of bitter infighting and a boardroom coup (Vivienne Westwood and Jeff pictured in 2021).
