The Gist
Cardi B made an appearance at Stephane Rolland’s Haute-Couture Fall/Winter 2025-26 collection show at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris for Paris Fashion Week on July 8.
She wore an artful, sculptural black and white optical illusion pod gown for the occasion.
The look comes just one day after she wore a sculptural fringe dress for Schiaparelli’s show.
Cardi B is single-handedly bringing the drama to Paris Fashion Week this year. Just one day after wearing a whimsical sculptural fringe dress complete with a (live!) crow accessory to Schiaparelli’s show followed by a sparkly red gown with giant roses erupting from the shoulders, the rapper donned yet another work of art in dress form. This time, it was for Stephane Rolland’s Haute-Couture FW25-26 show on July 8. And this dress was perhaps her most artful—and most confusing to the eye—so far.
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A work of art
The gown featured a black skirt that turned her legs into a sort of trunk. A giant black sculptural hood sat around her hips and stretched up to her head. The white interior of the structured hood matched with the white tailored top half of the gown, giving a bizarre optical illusion that Cardi B was perched within a sort of otherworldly pod.
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Emerging from a pod?
She wore her hair in a centre-part, slicked back into a bun and kept her jewelry minimal, leaving all of the attention on her artistic dress.
Cardi B is, of course, no stranger to a bold, eye-catching red carpet look—a look that pushes the boundaries of fashion to new limits. Over the years she has worn countless iconic looks that turned her into a living work of art. Who could forget her artistic sculptural pink and black gown at the 2019 Grammys? Or her ethereal, flowing royal blue dress at the 2023 Grammys? Then there was the time she rocked what was basically a lime green sleeping bag to the Guarav Gupta Fall/Winter 2023/2024 Show at Paris Fashion Week.
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Yesterday, she wore another sculptural creation
Although Cardi B has become a mainstay of experimental red carpet style, she hasn’t always found it easy to work with designers. “There are so many obstacles against us,” she told The Hollywood Reporter, referring to her and her stylist, Kollin Carter. “For example, this body is not meant for a size 2. I’m very hips, ass, and that’s me. It was not easy, but we make it look easy. Our door was closed many times…but we’re here because we do it well. I’m not going to be humble about it.”
Carter went on: “We’ve given look after look, year after year, we’ve reached into archives that are impossible to reach into. We caused a cultural shift. I don’t think there were many women like Cardi who existed in the fashion space. Now there are a ton of other rap females who aspire to be in that space because they see what’s possible. We set trends.”
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