Lourdes Leon stands out as the face of Marc Jacobs’s Spring 2021 advert marketing campaign, however even that did not assure her entrance to the model’s runway present this week.
Madonna‘s eldest daughter was turned away on the door of the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan on Thursday the place the designer historically hosts his runway present. A viral TikTok posted by @mickmicknyc captured the exact second the mannequin arrived on the venue and tried to enter, solely to be stopped by safety on her method up the steps. A voiceover on the clip explains that Leon apparently arrived at precisely 6 p.m., the time the present was scheduled to start out, however the doorways had already been locked and the present had begun. The individual she arrived with to the occasion was seen talking with safety guards for a number of minutes in regards to the scenario, however they have been each knowledgeable that the occasion was already closed.
Even followers ready exterior tried to assist Leon get in as they might be heard yelling to the guards, “Let her in, she’s the doll!” and “You do not know who she is?” finally breaking right into a chant of “Let her in!,” however she was turned away regardless. Leon was dressed for the event carrying a Heaven by Marc Jacobs denim purse to match her full denim bustier and high-low skirt, completed off with a shredded denim jacket slumped off her shoulders and white lace-up boots. There have been additionally various different high-profile company in attendance on the present that night time, together with Emily Ratajkowski, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, and Ashley Graham.
The mannequin is a former marketing campaign star for the model and her mother additionally “has a long-storied historical past” with Marc Jacobs because the model as soon as wrote in a press launch asserting Leon’s new function. They added on the time, “It solely made sense for us to faucet Lola to be the face of the marketing campaign as she completely encapsulates the youthful spirit and uncompromising sense of individuality central to this youthful expression of the model.” Sadly, she doesn’t appear to own the identical sense of punctuality because the model.
Leon—who Madonna welcomed in 1996 together with her then-boyfriend Carlos Leon—made her modeling debut in 2018, strolling the runway for Gypsy Sport. Since then, she has gone on to pose in a Juicy Couture underwear marketing campaign, starred within the third Savage x Fenty present, strutted on the catwalk for Marine Serre, and served as a muse to Jean Paul Gaultier and because the face of the designer’s capsule assortment with Supreme.
Reps for Marc Jacobs and Lourdes Leon didn’t instantly return Self-importance Truthful‘s requests for remark.
