Cardi B‘s relationship with high fashion brands has reached a new level, with the rapper walking the runway for Balenciaga over the weekend.
The 31-year-old made her runway debut on Saturday (December 2) in unique setting: according to The Hollywood Reporter, the coveted luxury brand took over a stretch of Windsor Boulevard, turning the tree-lined residential street in L.A.’s Windsor Park right into a celebrity-filled venue.
The occasion was attended by a protracted listing of A-Listers from the worlds of movie, music and style — together with Lil Wayne, Tinashe, Tracee Ellis Ross, Storm Reid, Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner. Cardi’s stroll was even captured by Sexyy Red, who shared footage of the present by way of her Instagram Stories
Appearing noticeably shorter than the skilled fashions round her, Cardi rocked a blue fur coat, leaving solely a pair of black boots seen to the general public. Her toned-down look additionally discovered the fashionable rapper donning a braided pony tail that swung right down to the again of her thighs.
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Cardi B has beforehand spoken about having to fund her love of style throughout the earlier years of her profession, after being snubbed by high-end labels. However, she and Offset have turn out to be darlings of the style world in recent times.
Their formal relationship with Balenciaga particularly dates again to September 2020, when the Bronx diva landed her first high-fashion marketing campaign, courtesy of the posh model. The debut advert spot was self-produced throughout the quarantine and premiered on September 1 plastered on the facet of historic Paris artwork museum The Louvre.
The following yr, the “it” couple hit the crimson carpet at Balenciaga’s Spring/Summer 2022 present throughout Paris Fashion Week, dressed head-to-toe within the luxurious model.
The couple turned heads as Cardi stepped out in a trench coat plastered in a collage of journal covers, paired with a dramatic rounded black hat. Offset, in the meantime, rocked an outsized leather-based jacket over an equally saggy hoodie, with a plaid shirt tied round his waist.
As Cardi B and Offset’s crimson carpet photographs made the rounds on social media, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the jokes started to fly, with many followers evaluating their ensembles to the arcade preventing sport franchise Mortal Kombat.
That hasn’t impacted their love for the model, nevertheless. The two have been again in Paris over the summer season, attending plenty of excessive profile Fashion Week occasions within the midst of some infidelity rumors.
TMZ caught the pair outdoors of Balenciaga‘s fashion show in the City of Love on July 5, packing on the public displays of affection and smiling ear to ear as they greeted eager fans who were waiting outside.
Both rappers were the subject of infidelity claims the week prior. Cardi’s enemy, blogger Tasha Ok, claimed that she had receipts the Migos artist was as soon as once more dishonest, whereas Set later straight accused Cardi of sleeping with one other man in a since-deleted Instagram Story.
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While Cardi took time to showcase her modeling expertise over the weekend, followers of the “Bongos” rapper gained’t be seeing her collaborate on too many tasks on the music facet of issues any time quickly.
In an interview to accompany her Vogue Mexico cowl in August, she promised {that a} venture is lastly on the way in which.
“I’m not going to release any more collaborations, I’m going to put out my next solo single,” Cardi mentioned. “Right now I’m working on the cover art and ideas for the next record because it’s definitely coming up.”
She continued: “Everyone always tells me I should put the record out now, they did when I released ‘WAP‘ and when I released ‘Up,’ but I always let them know I’m not going to wait long after all these singles. So stay tuned because it’s coming out very soon.”
After making comparable feedback throughout a chat with Ebro within the Morning in September, Cardi B promised her followers that she’ll be dropping some new music earlier than the yr is up and that she’d be “talking her shit” on the brand new observe.
In a Twitter Space on November 13, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper teased the brand new observe to her excited followers.
“But I was thinking about, you know, being really quiet, being really private,” she mentioned. “But I don’t know. Maybe I should just put a lil’ something something out before the year ends.”
She continued: “It depends, though, because…hmm. Would y’all mind if I just do, like, a video? […] I don’t really have nothing planned for, like, right now. I don’t know. I’ll think about it by the end of the day. I don’t know. I just feel like I gotta talk my shit a little bit. You know what I’m saying?”
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