Ciao, Bella Hadid!
For the uninitiated—and those without this excellent Instagram on your Explore page—the Sciura is a Milanese woman who dresses elegantly and impeccably. Think: leopard prints and Sophia Loren sunglasses, a suite of gemstone jewelry, and jewel tone blazers and pencil skirts. Always a pump, sometimes an elegant leather glove. Amid Milan Fashion Week, Bella Hadid gave the city’s quintessential look a try.
The model and actor, out promoting the Italian launch of her fragrance brand Orebella, greeted enormous crowds outside Douglas, Milan, wearing a chic cream 1995 Gianni Versace-era skirt suit with a collar and buttons, the knee-length skirt with simple pleats. The set was sourced from Paris by Raffe Vintage, the archival vintage dealers loved by Hailey Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo, Hadid, and more. Styled by Mimi Cuttrell, she wore large, dark oval sunglasses, a white and black piped clutch bag, a resin Alice band, and Dalmatian print peep-toe Manolo Blahnik mules sourced by another Bieber, Jenner, and Hadid fave, The Vintage Marché. (As well as her latest Vogue Italia cover, tucked under her arm.)
Later, Bella attended an Orebella brunch event in a silky, pale-as-pale lilac and cream Thierry Mugler blazer and skirt. The outfit featured the signature Mugler details: with structured shoulders and lapels and a nipped-in resin buckle waist, the ankle-length column skirt featured a singular slit. Accessories, again, were pared back—silvery dotted Manolo Blahnik pumps (again sourced by Lili Aghaei of The Vintage Marché), and long drop diamond earrings by Chopard. Glam, by her go-to makeup artist Nadia Tayeh, was bronzed and glowy, with a wavy voluminous, supermodel blowout and bangs swept to the side by Syd Hayes.
It was a real about-turn from the Bella Hadid looks of recent. Just a day previous, Hadid took to the Milano streets to launch her first design collaboration with Italy’s ’90s-dominating denim brand Miss Sixty. She wore an elongated bootleg jean, with a structured nipped-in waist jacket, which she paired with a white rollneck sweather and Anonymous Copenhagen pumps. Equal parts yeehaw and Y2K it-girl.
In another image shared to Instagram, Hadid opted to up the glam factor in an icy blue and brocade vintage Dior gown with sheer cut-outs and fringe details. The dress, which matched the fragrance bottle she posed with, was previously worn by Nicole Kidman, and hails from the 1998 spring summer, Galliano-era Dior collection. Again, sourced by the archival magicians Raffe Vintage.
Returning to Milan has been triumphant—but Hadid continues to be conscious of her health. “The way that I worked for many years was not sustainable. I think that, you know, even during COVID I continued to work,” she told Vogue Italia this weekend.
“Being able to be in Texas with my horses and my dog, having a real life, and then going back to work makes it more fulfilling,” she continued. “Now I know that if I’m able to say ‘No,’ even going through my [Lyme disease] treatment last year and having to say no to every job for almost a year, which I cried about…I was emotional because you feel disposable.”
Brava, Bella!
