“I did what every girl does when she’s scared,” said Victoria Beckham on being asked to model Roberto Cavalli ’s autumn/winter 2006 menswear presentation. “I rang my mum. ‘Victoria,’ she said , ‘You’ve been walking for 31 bloody years, you should have mastered it by now!’” I wonder if Victoria might have repeated the same advice to her 22-year-old son Romeo, who last night made a clandestine debut on Demna ’s spring/summer 2025 catwalk at Paris Fashion Week .
Romeo marched down a polished dinner table in a Balenciaga -fied simulacrum of Demna’s grandma’s kitchen – where the designer discovered he was interested in clothes as a young boy in Georgia – lined on both sides with magazine editors, celebrities from Nicole Kidman to Lindsay Lohan , and several members of Kering’s management. He was rendered almost (almost) anonymous with face-shielding sunglasses and a cropped polo shirt and low-rise cargo pants, until David shared an enthusiastic message of support on his Instagram: “Proud of you, mate.” Now 22, Romeo made his modelling debut as a 10-year-old in Burberry ’s spring/summer 2013 campaign alongside Cara Delevingne and Edie Campbell .
He then featured in the brand’s 2014 and 2015 Christmas ads, before reemerging as a floppy-haired 18-year-old in Saint Laurent ’s autumn/winter 2021 campaign. A Demna-sized co-sign seems to have left the young Beckham in an excitable mood. “Yesss, facts!!” he wrote on his Instagram Stories, re.
