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Paris Haute Couture Week’s designers book SAINT stars

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:00 PM
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Tami Williams, wearing Look 12, walked in Lebanese designer Georges Hobeika’s couture show, a tribute to his late mother, Marie Hobeika.
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Tami Williams, wearing Look 12, walked in Lebanese designer Georges Hobeika’s couture show, a tribute to his late mother, Marie Hobeika.
Williams for designer Tamara Ralph’s couture show held on Monday at the American Cathedral in Paris.
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Williams for designer Tamara Ralph’s couture show held on Monday at the American Cathedral in Paris.
Williams, a frequent fixture on Zuhair Murad’s runways, booked the Lebanese designer’s couture show on Wednesday.
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Williams, a frequent fixture on Zuhair Murad’s runways, booked the Lebanese designer’s couture show on Wednesday.
SAINT International’s Jessie Craig walked for Dior’s Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 show, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s book ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.
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SAINT International’s Jessie Craig walked for Dior’s Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 show, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s book ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.
Craig for Alexandre Vauthier’s couture show.
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Craig for Alexandre Vauthier’s couture show.
SAINT’s Sanique Dill walked for Valentino creative director Alessandro Michele’s debut Parisian haute couture collection for the Italian fashion house, titled ‘Vertigineux’.
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SAINT’s Sanique Dill walked for Valentino creative director Alessandro Michele’s debut Parisian haute couture collection for the Italian fashion house, titled ‘Vertigineux’.
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SAINT International made its mark at the Paris Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 shows, with supermodel Tami Williams and breakout stars Jessie Craig and Sanique Dill walking for Dior, Valentino, Zuhair Murad, and other top designers.

Kicking off on Monday, Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri presented a fantasy-themed collection of 64 pieces, defined by A-line dresses, flared crinoline waistlines, 3D floral motifs, and fluttering tulle. The collection was inspired by Lewis Carroll’s 1865 children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Craig walked for Chiuri’s latest visionary oeuvre in Look 40 for the show ‘W Magazine’ writer Alison Cohn hailed as “the total effect was very Wonderland...all the grounded signatures Chiuri has developed during her tenure at Dior over eight-plus years were presented and accounted for.”

Also on Monday, Williams was among the faces for the House of Georges Hobeika’s couture collection, a tribute to the late Marie Hobeika, the Lebanese designer’s mother. The show’s notes highlighted that the collection “serves as an intimate ode to a woman whose spirit remains at the heart of the house.” Georges and his co-creative director son Jad showcased an elegant lineup of cascading crystals, soft silks, feathered accents, and embroidered constellations.

Later that day, Williams glided beneath the Gothic arches of the American Cathedral for Australian designer Tamara Ralph’s fourth collection, filled with floral and romantic touches that have become her signature. Meanwhile, Craig turned heads at Alexandre Vauthier’s couture showcase, where swinging fringed silhouettes, sharp blazers, and sleek pantsuits took centre stage at La Monnaie de Paris, the historic institution that mints France’s coins.

Elsewhere in the City of Lights, Dill, who made her international debut at Miu Miu’s Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear show last October, scored a major milestone on Wednesday with her first couture appearance for Valentino. It was also a debut for Valentino’s new creative director, Italian Alessandro Michele, who took the helm in April 2024.

For his inaugural couture collection, titled ‘Vertigineux’, Michele’s show at the former Paris Stock Exchange showcased full skirts with 18th-century grandeur, 1970s-inspired ruffled dresses, and other historical references that defined the collection.

A mainstay on the Parisian runway, Williams returned to work duty for Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad’s collection, ‘Tropical Island’ that tipped its hat to old Hollywood magic. With a focus on luxe silks and bursts of colour, Murad’s pieces had plenty of belly-baring coordinates, and palm frond and flora embroidery.

As the long-established epicentre of high fashion, Paris naturally became a celebrity hotspot during the four-day showcase. Grammy-winning stars Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa, actresses Gabrielle Union, Lily-Rose Depp, Jenna Ortega, and Laura Harrier, and lifestyle mogul Kylie Jenner were just a few of the big names in the front row, flying in to witness the glamorous parade of custom-fitted, high-end pieces made for the fashion houses’ wealthy private clients.

The recently concluded iteration of the Parisian biannual Haute Couture collections ran from January 27 to 30. Next up is the Fall/Winter 2026 Haute Couture shows, set to debut from June 7 to 10 in Paris.