Vanessa Seward has been providing style inspiration since her Azzaro days in the early 2000s. I can’t be the only one who remembers Nicole Kidman and Carey Mulligan in her crystal-lined LBDs, or Kate Moss in a strapless satin bow-front jumpsuit. Born in Argentina and raised in London, Seward is one of Paris’s chicest women , with stacked heel boots of the kind Gena Rowlands might’ve worn in a 1970s Cassevetes movie and the same covetable bouncy coiffure, only hers is a deep, chocolatey brunette.
She’s so chic she published a book on the subject, La Guide de la Gentlewoman , in 2022, a sort of how-to for those of us a little lacking in the je ne sais quoi department—moi included. High rise jeans and a velvet evening bag from Seward’s mid-2010s eponymous brand, launched with the support of A.P.
C.’s Jean Touitou and sadly short-lived, hang in my closet to this day, and I still haunt The RealReal looking for a pair of her timeless boots (if anyone out there is ready to sell, I’m a size 40). But my resale days might be over, at least temporarily: She’s designed a fall capsule for Bonpoint, in what is the French baby and children’s wear company’s first designer collaboration for women.
News of the collaboration, when my colleagues at Vogue Business announced it , came as a bit of a surprise. These days, Seward is more focused on her painting, which graduated from a Covid past time to a passion when she started showing the work in galleries in 2021. Having star.