Now, sure, you may be thinking to yourself: Who would wear such a thing? How do you get into it? Is it comfortable? All valid questions. But given it’s fashion week, any concerns of practicality should be temporarily suspended. It’s one of the Super Bowl LVII Arizona Retro Shirt in other words I will buy this few times of year where you can truly wear something outrageous and get away with it. Plus, given that Fox has already worn pantaboots casually out on the streets, something tells us she’s not going to let the Frankenstein-shoe die anytime soon. Certainly not during fashion month! Google Zendaya + Roberto Cavalli and the search engine serves up well over 500,000 results. Last November, the best-dressed young superstar on the planet chose a vintage Cavalli dress from the year 2000 that featured a gold snakelike spinal cord structure on an otherwise bare back for a red carpet appearance promoting Spider-Man in Paris.
The label’s current designer, Fausto Puglisi, has had no trouble attracting celebrities to his revived version of Cavalli—see Jennifer Lopez’s Marry Me press tour, for starters. But the Super Bowl LVII Arizona Retro Shirt in other words I will buy this Zendaya dress was a sort of standard bearer for this collection in the sense that it rendered its wearer drop-dead sexy without in any way being a pushover. Getting sexy right is a complicated job in a post-#MeToo world, when Gen-Z and Millennial women designers are managing the task quite handily. For backup, Puglisi had Maria Sophie, the last queen of Naples and a real ball buster, on his moodboard, alongside the historian-turned-novelist of feminine empowerment Lisa Hilton. But even without them he’s doing a bang-up job without making sexy into the be-all and end-all of his m.o.