Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants. Hadid was yesterday afternoon photographed in Ferragamo three-quarter-lengths while promoting her new oil-based fragrance line, Orebella, on Drew Barrymore’s television show.
This is, after all, the same person who once convinced an entire generation of young women to dress like a Disney tween–see: the Pucci pedal pushers and Miss Dior baby tees of 2021–while operating under the reported pseudonym @princesspeach310 on Depop. And though Bella now seems to have graduated from that Y2K hype girl phase–and towards a more subdued and technical Prada Sport aesthetic–the quirked-up accents are still very much present: yes, in the cropped pants, but also in the Ferragamo half-shoe that exposed the model’s arch, heel and toes.
Much like the Alexander McQueen scarf and the Boho disc belt, the pedal pusher revival will doubtless inspire morbid fascination in those who lived through the knee-grazing Noughties. The thing is: Bella is the latest in a growing contingent of public-facing figures to back the trend, among them Gigi Hadid, Jennifer Lawrence, and Alexa Chung. For what it’s worth, I think the London designer Johanna Parv makes some excellent three-quarter-lengths that feel a little less Carrie Bradshaw in Los Angeles–that’s no bad thing, of course–and a little more 2024 in their appeal: often cut from Lycra and engineered for life on the go. In the tradition of Prada Sport, these designs are all about speed and the need to zip through metropolitan centers with ease. (They are called pedal pushers for a reason.)