Gu, Neymar, Asher-Smith among Olympians at Paris Fashion Week 2023

Paris 2024 may be in excess of a calendar year absent but that did tiny to end the sporting elite from descending on the city for Paris Trend Week, concluding these days (8 March).

Olympic champions Gu Ailing (Eileen) and Neymar had been among the athletes who attended the 7-day event that invites designers to screen their upcoming collections for the up coming season.

From viewing some of the world’s greatest and most esteemed manufacturers on the catwalk from the front row to even walking the runways as products locate out how Olympians got included in the week’s action.

Just lately topped avenue skateboarding entire world champion Rayssa Leal was a stand-out as she appeared at the start of the new autumn and wintertime collections for Louis Vuitton at the D’Orsay Museum on Monday (6 March).

The 15-yr-previous Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medallist sat in the entrance row for the show and afterwards appeared in shots with American singer Pharrell Williams, who has a partnership with the legendary manufacturer.

Also appearing at the Louis Vuitton exhibit was Beijing 2022 double Olympic winner Gu Ailing (Eileen) .

Gu, who created her runway debut for the brand name previous calendar year, has frequently spoken about her solid connection to trend.

Past calendar year, the freestyle skier manufactured her next overall look at the Satisfied Gala a fundraising gain for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in which invitees are inspired to dress according to the preferred topic.

Tennis superstar Venus Williams designed numerous appearances throughout a variety of shows in Paris demonstrating her adore for all points design.

The 5-time Olympic medallist and 7-time Grand Slam winner appeared on the entrance row for French brand name Chloe, donning a billowing white coat and a black mesh costume. The outfit was the ideal demonstration of her taste in style both on and off the courtroom.

Also attending numerous shows throughout the 7 days was Olympic Somali boxing star Ramla Ali who is nicely recognized for balancing life in the ring with the environment of superior style.

In among sharing her pleasure for her background-creating crew-mates at the Indoor European Championships, athletics star Dina Asher-Smith produced headlines for her catwalk debut for Virgil Abloh’s Off White.

The 22-yr-aged dash feeling led a forged of Olympic athletes together with Workforce GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Rio 2016 heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam of Belgium and Renelle Lamote of France who all took to the runway to rejoice the get the job done of the designer.

And if there was not ample sporting glamour on the runway there was loads seeing on.

Olympic football gold medallist Neymar seemed on from the entrance row along with supermodel Cara Delevingne.