In Absentia
Chiara Ferragni is guaranteed a good turnout wherever she goes, but on Sunday, her fans thronged to an outdoor event in freezing Milan even though the influencer was bedridden thousands of miles away in Los Angeles.
“Chiara is doing better,” said Andrea Lorini, chief executive officer of Chiara Ferragni Collection, referring to Ferragni’s recent pregnancy scare.
The style star, who is engaged to Italian rapper Federico Lucia, known as Fedez, was ordered to rest by her doctor this week, triggering an outpouring of support from her 11.7 million followers on Instagram. She has canceled all her appointments for the next few months but was watching Sunday’s proceedings from afar, Lorini said.
Some onlookers huddled under foil survival blankets as they waited for the happening to start. Shortly after 2 p.m., models wearing outfits from Ferragni’s fall collection, titled Stardust, began to align on the scaffolding of a building on Corso Garibaldi in the heart of the city’s fashionable Brera district.
The line featured items such as laminated silver down jackets, iridescent PVC rain boots and