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Lifestyle | Fashin Friday, January 24, 2020 Supermodel Kaia Gerber to sit on top fashion jury

eenage supermodel Kaia Gerber is to haute couture”, she wrote on Instagram. sit on the jury of one of fashion’s most “@clarewaightkeller you have left me com- US model Kaia Gerber Tprestigious prizes, its organizers said pletely speechless. Words will never begin to presents a creation by Wednesday. The 18-year-old American, the express my gratitude and appreciation for this during the daughter of former catwalk queen Cindy moment. “Thank you to the incredible atelier Women’s Spring-Sum- Crawford, has been one of the stars of Paris and everyone who worked so hard to make mer 2020 Haute Cou- fashion fortnight, which ends late Thursday. this so special.” The show, in a former convent ture collection fashion Gerber will sit on the jury of the Hyeres fash- in the French capital, was accompanied by show in Paris.—AFP ion festival on the French Riviera at the end of musicians who were suspended from poles. April to decide one of the top prizes for rising The Hyeres jury will be presided over by young designers. the Northern Irish designer Jonathan Ander- The model sparked fevered comment on son. As well as his own JW Anderson brand, social media when she wore a spectacular he is also artistic director of the Spanish wedding dress that closed the Givenchy haute house . The prize they will decide is couture show late Tuesday. The gown with a the oldest in the world for young fashion de- showstopping structured veil-that was some- signers and was won in 2018 by the Dutch where between a halo and its own grotto- couple Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh, made headlines after the reported break-up who were later snapped up to lead the French of Gerber’s romance with US stand-up come- label Nina Ricci. dian . Their own brand, Botter, made its Paris Critics raved about Clare Waight Keller’s debut during men’s fashion week. Other past embroidered creation. The British designer winners include the Belgian Anthony Vac- also made the wedding dress the Duchess of carello, now at the head of Saint Laurent, and Sussex Megan Markle wore for her marriage the Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf. The festival runs to Prince Harry in 2018. Gerber said the dress from April 25 to 29.—AFP had left her “speechless”. “Closing Givenchy Elie Saab’s Women’s Spring-Summer 2020 Haute Couture

Models present creations by Elie Saab at the end of the Women’s Spring-Summer 2020 Haute Couture collection fashion show in Paris.—AFP