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Pregnant Ciara Walks Junya Watanabe Three Times in Paris
By @sharedot · · 8 pages
- Fashion
- Paris Fashion Week
- Junya Watanabe
- Ciara
Pregnant with her fifth child, Ciara made a surprise Junya Watanabe runway appearance at Paris Fashion Week, walking three looks on October 3.
Ciara Turned a Surprise Into a Showstopper
Ciara skipped the Paris Fashion Week front row on October 3 and walked in Junya Watanabe's Spring 2027 ready-to-wear show instead, appearing three separate times while visibly pregnant with her fifth child. The reveal came via a joint Instagram post from Vogue and Ciara, whose caption read, "Surprise!" and confirmed she walked the runway "not once, not twice, but three times."
The Three Looks, Built on One Base
Every look was built on the same foundation: purple leggings and a matching crop top cut with hot-pink racing stripes, worn with a wide black belt slung low and red heeled booties. Complex reports the first pass added a beige trench coat and an embellished black ball cap; the second swapped the coat for a black leather jacket sliced into strips and hung with zippers and beaded cords; the third went furthest with a chandelier-style headpiece anchored by a bedazzled helmet, with ropes of crystals spilling to her waist. today.com describes the jacket as held together by zippers and long strands of pearls.
Why the Casting Was a Surprise
The moment carried personal weight. In an Instagram post after the show, Ciara wrote she had "always dreamed of walking the runway in Paris" and admitted she was "honestly afraid that when I mentioned I was with child" the designer would say pregnancy "doesn't fit the vision anymore" — but Watanabe said yes. She said she "held back tears while experiencing THIS MOMENT," and TheGrio reports Vogue's review described her cameo as a standout in a collection exploring exaggerated, reconstructed silhouettes.
A Collection Built on Transformation
Ciara's three transformations fit the logic of Watanabe's Spring 2027 collection, titled "Funky," which AOL reports repeatedly took recognizable clothes and objects apart and rebuilt them into stranger silhouettes. AOL says the show used catsuits as foundations for larger constructions, featured clothing built with visible circuit boards and wiring and oversized pearls worked across tweed and leather, and shifted pace from Chaka Khan's "Like Sugar" to Michael Jackson's "I Just Can't Stop Loving You."
The Crowd and the Family Responded
Multiple outlets agree the audience cheered Ciara during her walks. Russell Wilson publicly celebrated her runway moment, responding to Vogue's post with heart and raised-hands emojis, while Ciara answered coverage of the show with heart emojis, according to TheGrio. The appearance came less than a month after she and Wilson announced the pregnancy on September 6 with a clothesline-themed post captioned "One more person to Love" — Complex notes Wilson nicknamed the baby "Baby Cinco."
What It Means Going Forward
The Economic Times frames the walk as Ciara continuing a message she has built for years, quoting her 2025 Vogue "Life in Looks" episode: "You don't have to stop and lose yourself in the process of creating a new life." The same outlet argues the runway moment challenges the assumption that pregnancy dictates what a woman may pursue. After the show, today.com reports Ciara capped Saturday at the Business of Fashion's BoF500 Gala in a sheer black dress trimmed with black floral appliqués, extending the fashion-week moment past the catwalk.
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- complex.com › Ciara Walks Junya Watanabe's Paris Runway Three Times While Pregnant With Baby No. 5
- today.com › Ciara And Her Baby Bump Tear Up Paris Fashion Week Catwalk
- thegrio.com › Ciara makes surprise Paris Fashion Week runway appearance while expecting fifth child
- aol.com › Pregnant Ciara Makes Surprise Paris Fashion Week Runway Appearance in Show-Stopping Looks
- economictimes.indiatimes.com › Pregnant Ciara walks Paris Fashion Week runway: How she is redefining what women can do during motherhood