Nearly two years afterKim Kardashian West‘sharrowing robbery in Paris, the star made her return to Paris Fashion Week to support Virgil Abloh’s debut collection for Louis Vuitton at the label’s spring/summer 2019 menswear show.
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Kim wore a bright blue collard shirt dress with zippered fanny pack-like compartments sewn throughout and oversize sporty sunglasses that resemble ski goggles. West wore a sweatshirt with a bird painted on it with the phrases “I am loving,” “Awareness” and “There is only freedom” printed across it.
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Kylie sat front row with boyfriendTravis Scott, the father of her4-month-old daughter Stormi,in a bright highlighter yellow tracksuit.
Sources tell PEOPLE that Kim “seemed in a good mood” and was “absolutely not” afraid.
For his part, West seemed to be in “an especially good mood and talking proud of his longtime friend Abloh.”
One attendee tells PEOPLE that while security was present “it didn’t seem exceptional or excessive.”
“There were guards around her but not a huge contingent,” the guest adds “It was almost normal but there was some tension you could feel.”
Abloh is also the designer of Off-White, but before he got his top-tier designing gigs, he worked with West for years. The two interned at Fendi together, then Abloh became the creative director of Kanye’s creative agency, Donda, and later was the artistic director of the 2011JAY-Z/Kanye WestalbumWatch the Throne.
His appointment to lead Louis Vuitton’s menswear is a major milestone professionallyandfor the house of Louis Vuitton — he’s the first African-American artistic director for the menswear division and only one of the few black designers the brand has ever had.
West spoke out about how he felt during that time saying: “The situation with my wife in Paris — and all of the elements, you’re feeling like helpless, you’re feeling like what else can you do,”he said in May 2018. “I went to Paris on that trip to protect her. Not protect her physically, but to go and just help her with her looks ‘cause she’s in Paris.”
source: people.com
