Paris Fashion Week 2026: Rihanna, J.Lo, and Hailey Bieber’s Vintage Homage Steal the Spotlight

Fashion Month always saves its loudest applause for Paris, and this year the front row has been as magnetic as the runways themselves. With Paris Fashion Week running from September 28 through October 6, A-listers who skipped New York, London, and Milan finally showed up, and they did not come quietly.

From Rihanna’s diamond-drenched black look at Dior to Jennifer Lopez’s earthy Stella McCartney tailoring and Hailey Bieber stepping into a piece of 1990s fashion history, the past 48 hours have delivered the kind of celebrity style that fashion editors live for.

The Grand Finale Energy of Paris

Paris is where Fashion Month becomes fashion culture. Houses like Dior, Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, and Balmain pulled in a constellation of celebrities that included Rihanna, Jennifer Lawrence, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoë Kravitz, Zoe Saldaña, Miranda Kerr, Cynthia Erivo, and Jennifer Lopez.

Jonathan Anderson’s first-anniversary Dior collection on September 29 became the unofficial opening night of celebrity season. Brand ambassadors Rihanna and Jennifer Lawrence sat in the front row in looks that could not have been more different, and that contrast is exactly why this week feels alive.

Rihanna and Jennifer Lawrence at Dior

Rihanna arrived in a sleek, all-black ensemble layered with a fur stole and finished with a dazzling diamond anklet that some estimates have placed close to a million dollars in value. After opening the week in a gold-tinsel skirt suit at Matières Fécales, the black Dior look felt like a reset: still theatrical, but colder, sharper, and more nocturnal.

Jennifer Lawrence, who had skipped recent Dior shows, returned in a cool-blue, nightgown-style slip from the Cruise 2027 collection. Paired with matching slingbacks and a Lady D-Joy bag, the look turned pajama dressing into high-fashion eveningwear. It was romantic without being precious, a reminder that Anderson’s Dior is as interested in ease as it is in spectacle.

Elsewhere in the Dior front row, Anya Taylor-Joy layered a completely sheer cape-style top over a pencil skirt, Rosalía chose an understated black gown anchored by an oversized floral detail, and Cynthia Erivo mixed an extra-long Oxford shirt with a textured maxi skirt and a tomato-red boa.

The message was clear: Dior’s front row is no longer a uniform. It is a conversation.

Saint Laurent’s Sheer Takeover

If Dior was about contrast, Saint Laurent was about skin and shine. Anthony Vaccarello’s Spring/Summer 2027 show turned the front row into a study in black lace, velvet, and transparency.

Zoë Kravitz, a longtime Saint Laurent loyalist, wore a sheer black skirt set that echoed her 2026 Met Gala gown from the same house. Zoe Saldaña went even further in a glittery, lace-trimmed little black dress that left her underwear fully visible. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Amber Valletta, and Amelia Gray followed a similar direction.

Kate Moss, by contrast, chose a more covered velvet jumpsuit cinched with a gold-buckle belt, proving that even within one house, there is room for both provocation and restraint.

The sheer-lace moment is not new, but seeing it adopted so widely in one sitting felt like a seasonal statement: Spring 2027 will not hide the body. It will frame it.

Jennifer Lopez Does Business in Brown at Stella McCartney

Jennifer Lopez made her Stella McCartney debut in a look pulled from the house’s Fall 2026 collection: a belted, fur-trimmed top, matching pencil skirt, pointed pumps, and an elongated stole that trailed behind her like a second shadow. The palette was all browns: warm, expensive, and unexpectedly corporate for a singer who usually arrives in sequins and sculptural designs.

It was J.Lo in work mode, but still J.Lo. The stole touching the catwalk was the theatrical flourish that kept the look from reading as boardroom dressing.

Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Kerr, Sabrina Elba, and Natalia Bryant rounded out a front row that felt more grounded than those at Dior or Saint Laurent, with more emphasis on texture and tailoring than shock value.

Miranda Kerr’s surprise return to the runway after nearly a decade, walking alongside Karlie Kloss and Amber Valletta, added another layer of nostalgia. Fashion Week loves a comeback, and Kerr’s was timed perfectly with the city’s most photographed week.

Hailey Bieber and the Ghost of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

The most talked-about look of the past two days did not even happen on a Paris catwalk. In London, at a private dinner at Harry’s Bar, Hailey Bieber appeared in a champagne-colored, bias-cut, crystal-embellished Cerruti by Narciso Rodriguez slip dress from Spring 1997, recalling the silhouette Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wore to her wedding rehearsal dinner in 1996.

Sourced from My Runway Archive by stylist Dani Michelle, the dress has not been confirmed as the exact garment Bessette Kennedy wore, but it is the same design. Rodriguez, who also created Bessette Kennedy’s wedding gown, had designed the rehearsal-dinner look as a nude-lined version of a sheer fishnet runway piece. Kate Moss later wore the collection version in a Cerruti campaign.

Bieber styled it with almost nothing: loose waves, metallic strappy sandals, and barely any jewelry. The effect was pure 1990s quiet luxury before the term existed.

In a week of sheer lace and diamond anklets, the vintage slip felt like a palate cleanser and a reminder that the most powerful celebrity fashion often looks backward as well as forward.

What the Week Is Telling Us

Three threads are already emerging from Paris.

Black is not safe; it is strategic. Rihanna, Kravitz, Saldaña, Moss, and Lopez all used dark palettes, but each one meant something different: armor, seduction, homage, or business.

Transparency is the season’s risk. Saint Laurent made it a major talking point, but Anya Taylor-Joy’s sheer Dior top and Bieber’s barely-there vintage slip prove the idea is traveling beyond one house.

Fashion history is content. Bieber wearing a Rodriguez design associated with Bessette Kennedy in the same week that Ryan Murphy’s Love Story has put Bessette Kennedy back in the cultural conversation is a compelling connection. Celebrities are dressing like archivists now.

Paris Fashion Week still has Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, and Hermès to go. The front row will keep changing. But the last 48 hours already feel like a chapter: Rihanna in diamonds, J.Lo in brown fur, and Hailey Bieber in a vintage dress recalling someone else’s rehearsal dinner.

The clothes will sell. The images will last longer.

Which look are you stealing first: the Dior nightgown, the Saint Laurent lace, or the 1997 slip? Tell us in the comments, and visit VRGyani.com for every front-row update through the rest of Fashion Month.