Leave it to Gigi Hadid to ensure her arrival to Milan Fashion Week stayed entirely on-trend. This morning saw the super turning heads at Malpensa Airport, finishing her signature, slicked midi-knot with a 90s-inspired circlet comb headband reminiscent of those worn on the Prabal Gurung runway during New York Fashion Week. But rather than limiting her middle-school-made-new detailing to the effortless accessory, Hadid cemented the moment with a rainbow of a manicure, each nail coated in a different vibrant hue, green, pink, and yellow among them. A closer look revealed a homage to the European branch of fashion month in the form of diminutive Euro values—amounts doubling as a shout to each of the Hadid clan s birthdays—stenciled at the edges of the personalized manicure, the creative undertaking executed by nail artist Mei Kawajiri.
From afar, the pointed paint job seemed born of a throwback slumber party, a whimsical addition which the model tempered with oversize, incognito aviators—though even those were afforded a bit of kitsch by way of a few bauble bedeckings—and a pared-down pink lip. Toothed headbands and the return of the claw clip aside, the lesson is clear: a kaleidoscopic manicure is the quickest route to a more playful period of time.
