Bella Hadid’s Vintage Vacation Style Channels Carrie Bradshaw
The model is currently off-duty in St. Tropez—and found a spring 2001 Prada piece that was once worn on “Sex and the City.”
Reported by Vogue.
Cannes barely had time to dim its lights before Bella Hadid was already horizontal on a yacht in St. Tropez — and somehow, her off-duty wardrobe hit just as hard as anything she wore on the red carpet. According to Vogue, the model traded custom Schiaparelli for a deep dive into the archives, pulling a red and white striped knee-length skirt from Prada's spring 2001 collection — the same one Gisele Bündchen originally walked the runway in — and styling it as a mini tube dress. Effortless recontextualization is its own kind of talent.
The Carrie Bradshaw Connection
If the piece triggered a sense of déjà vu, you're not imagining things. That exact Prada skirt made its small-screen debut on Sex and the City — season four, Carrie Bradshaw, paired with a black crop top and a Gucci belt bag. The fact that a single garment has now lived through a supermodel runway moment, a fictional New York icon, and a Mediterranean yacht afternoon says everything about what makes a truly great archival piece: it keeps finding new lives.
The Prada skirt wasn't a one-off impulse either. Hadid and stylist Mimi Cuttrell built out an entire archival France wardrobe — vintage Elie Saab, Marc Jacobs-era Louis Vuitton, and Prada Sport all made appearances throughout the week. Meanwhile, back at Cannes, Hadid was wearing new Prada in the form of a custom Old Hollywood white gown with a matching shawl. The label is clearly her current obsession, and she's working both ends of the timeline simultaneously.
What's sharp about Hadid's approach isn't just the pieces themselves — it's the commitment to wearing vintage not as a costume but as a wardrobe. There's no ironic distance, no museum-piece reverence. She's on a boat in a 24-year-old skirt, getting the Instagram shot, having a normal chaotic beautiful vacation. That's the move. The archival market has been exploding for years, but it takes a certain confidence to wear it like it was made for you this season — because, done right, it was.
Vintage fashion will always belong to whoever wears it best.
Read the original at Vogue.
