Kendall Jenner is not one of fashion’s most berserk experimentalists. This is because she likes Birkenstocks. The model has also spent the past couple of years collecting a wardrobe of sensible loafers and tote bags from The Row, a look that evokes the low-effort ’90s more than it does the storybook-villainess ensembles beloved by fashion eccentrics like the late, great Isabella Blow.
That is until she walked the streets of New York in a witch heel (elongated toes, inverted heels) and a dress with a thigh-slit LBD sculpted with evil-stepmother shoulders. Jenner looked as though she was perhaps going to offer a poisoned apple to an unsuspecting fan. Or force one of the younger generation of Kardashian children to do some housework. I’d imagine there were lots of small glass vials clattering about in that clutch too. (See the photo here.)
Bad Bunny seemed to be dressed like her incognito second-in-command, his face obscured with sunglasses, and an anti-paparazzi cap and headscarf combination. All this is a sea change from their previous outing this week: all jeans and jumpers and capacious handbags. That Kendall Jenner should step away from risk-free, palatable dressing is a positive development. Perhaps the only thing missing was a menacing Philip Treacy headpiece. Failing that, Carrie Bradshaw’s is still up for grabs.
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