Bella Hadid, fresh from a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet tour de force that included custom Schiaparelli and a sequence of archival treasures, has shifted into vacation mode in St. Tropez with a wardrobe that continues her winning streak in vintage fashion — this time reviving a Prada spring 2001 skirt that once graced both Gisele Bündchen on the runway and Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City.
Hadid and her stylist, Mimi Cuttrell, have turned the deep archive into a competitive advantage. Over the course of the Cannes festival, she wore vintage pieces from Elie Saab, Marc Jacobs-era Louis Vuitton, and Prada Sport, punctuated by a custom Old Hollywood-style white Prada gown with a matching shawl for the red carpet. Each choice represents a deliberate curatorial act — a negotiation between the garment’s original context and the contemporary eye that reencounters it.
The St. Tropez vacation look, with its casual recontextualization of a runway piece from a quarter-century ago, captures something essential about the current moment in fashion. The archive is no longer a reference library to be consulted; it is a living wardrobe to be worn. And Bella Hadid, with her unerring eye for the piece that exists at the intersection of history and desire, has become its most visible curator.
