Meet Stephanie Cavalli, the 49-year-old model who opened Chanel’s Paris haute couture show
Viral stars Alex Consani, Awar Odhiang and Bhavitha Mandava turned heads at Matthieu Blazy’s show – but all eyes were on the silver-haired Cavalli
“They have life; they’ve seen the world,” Blazy said, per The New York Times, as he gushed over his mature models who “bring a completely different dimension to the clothes”.
So, who is Stephanie Cavalli, who’s going grey by choice?
Her background and family
Cavalli is half-Caribbean and half-Italian, according to art and culture magazine Brutjournal. Her father was an antique collector with whom she would trawl through Roman flea markets for vintage clothes, per fashion magazine As If. “I remember the feeling of walking into antique shops and feeling the wonder of all different things, and the more I looked, the more I found treasures,” she recalled.
She moved to the States in 2002 and now splits her time between Paris and New York, per Elle. She is married to “tattooer” Elvio Critelli, who was born in Italy, and they have three sons, one of whom is Cavalli’s stepson. Besides modelling, she runs her own vintage boutique in Callicoon, New York, called La Garçonne.