Paris Fashion Week couldn’t have gotten off to a more regal and luxurious start. If the high fashion debut of Grace Burns, the young daughter of top model Christy Turlington, took place at Milan Fashion Week on Monday, she presented Alberta Ferretti in the magnificent setting of the Castello Sforzesco. It was the turn of Princesses Maria Caroline and Maria Chiara of the Bourbons of the Two Sicilies to walk down Pierre Cardin’s catwalk., in front of the delighted father Carlo and mother Camilla. The two princesses, 20 and 18 years old respectively, have never hidden their passion for fashion, art and photography, so, having just graduated from the Marangoni Institute in Paris, they received a call from the group’s CEO Rodrigo Basilicati: Cardin will wear two creations from the new spring-summer 2024 collection .
Princess parade for Pierre Cardin at Paris Fashion Week – women’s clothing spring/summer 2024.
At Espace Niemeyer, in the heart of the 19th arrondissement, in front of an audience of celebrities and influencers, the two girls confidently donned two blue-green dresses, highlighted by iridescent eyeshadow. Maria Carolina, Duchess of Calabria and Palermo, showed off a long dress organza with an asymmetrical skirt and voluminous white petals at the neckline. Her younger sister, the Duchess of Noto and Capri, wore a silk cocktail dress in shades of turquoise and turquoise, secured at the chest with a blue disc. For both – silver shoes and wet hair, creating the effect of a mermaid who has just emerged from the sea foam. A well-thought-out choice by the designer’s nephew, who took over the house and, after the couturier’s death in 2020 at the age of 98, seeks to relaunch it in the world, including through young faces capable of approaching Generation Z. “I also want to appeal to the young clientele, who are all moving away more from uniformity,” Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin told AFP earlier this year, shortly after presenting his first collection of signatures earlier this year.
Princesses at the Christian Dior photocall.
But this was not the only appearance of the two princesses on Pfw. Born in Rome, but raised between Paris and Monte Carlo., have a special relationship with French fashion houses. And anyway, here they are too front row at the Dior fashion show was developed by Maria Grazia Chiuri, and already in March they participated in the Givenchy AW23 collection. An almost irresistible attraction to the fashion system. The two young men, practically inseparable, followed the old-fashioned path of education with private tutors and tutors, in accordance with the “international Cambridge educational system and the CNED course under the strict supervision and control of the Ministry of Education of Monaco,” as stated on the official website of the House of Bourbon of the Two Sicilies. which devotes ample space to the princesses’ profiles. They both graduated from school in 2020, one and two years earlier than the traditional school system respectively, play a lot of sports and speak six languages fluently: Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.
Princesses Maria Carolina and Maria Chiara with their mother Camilla.
Official family commitments soon brought them closer to charitable projects, such as Maria Chiara’s collaboration with WWF and Maria Carolina’s collaboration with UNICEF, the Italian association Salvamamme and Nice Les Anges Gardiens de Monaco” in support of the most needy people. Both have a special interest in the dramatic arts, which is not surprising. their film debut dates back to none other than 2014 in the film Grace of Monaco with Nicole Kidman. A very respectable curriculum for the daughters of Prince Charles, Duke of Castro – one of two contenders for the head of the House of the Two Sicilies, although after the unification of Italy in 1861 the family can no longer boast the throne – and Camilla Crociani, daughter of Italian billionaire Camillo Crociani and actress Edie Wessel , whom even Federico Fellini was looking for in 8½.
Many influential friendships, including with the Danish Royal Family and Prince Albert of Monaco. To the point that a few months ago, the youngest of the sisters was credited with flirting with Prince Christian of Denmark, the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and Mary Donaldson. The connection is immediately denied by the person concerned and demoted to the level of “close friendship.” Because, as Maria Chiara wrote, “although we all love to dream of fairy tales, what really matters is reality.”
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