Apple Martin Walks Chloé Runway for Her First Catwalk Show

Apple Martin made her runway debut in a white broderie anglaise dress at Chloé's spring 2027 Paris show, the next step in a slow-build fashion career.

On Thursday, October 1, 2026, 22-year-old Apple Martin — the daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin — walked her first fashion week runway during Chloé's spring/summer 2027 ready-to-wear show in Paris, presented by creative director Chemena Kamali. She appeared in a romantic white broderie anglaise maxi dress with circular floral-like pointelle on the skirt and sleeves, pintucking, eyelet flowers, a ruffled placket and billowing sleeves, paired with brown platform sandals. WWD reports the look sat squarely inside one of Kamali's biggest preoccupations for the season: broderie anglaise dominated the opening portion of the collection across cotton, chiffon and organza.

The runway was the missing line on a résumé that already included the front row, a campaign and a debutante ball, as WWD put it. Martin first drew fashion attention at Chanel couture in 2023, made her society debut at Le Bal des Débutantes in Paris in 2024 in a custom blue Valentino dress, and became a Self-Portrait ambassador in 2025. In May 2026 she became a face of Chloé, photographed by David Sims for the Chloé à la Plage summer campaign. According to Harper's BAZAAR, she has also appeared in GapStudio shoots alongside her mother and sat front row at a Chanel haute couture show.

Unlike the one-show surprise debuts fashion week often produces, Martin's path was incremental, moving from guest to campaign star to house collaborator over several years. WWD's lineage of second-generation debuts includes Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban opening Miu Miu's spring 2025 show at 16, Kai Schreiber on Valentino's fall 2026 runway, Lila Moss opening and closing Miu Miu spring 2021, Kaia Gerber at Calvin Klein in 2017, Lourdes Leon at Gypsy Sport in 2018 and Lily-Rose Depp at Chanel's 2016 Métiers d'Art show. The parallel generation kept rolling this week: Vogue reports Heidi Klum's 16-year-old daughter Lou made her own fashion week debut at Vivienne Westwood's spring 2027 show in matching peplum silhouettes and platforms with her supermodel mother.

Harper's BAZAAR notes Claire Danes, Cynthia Erivo and Alexa Chung watched from the front row as Martin completed her look with caramel-coloured platform heels with see-through PVC vamps and ankle straps, her long blonde hair parted down the middle in soft beachy waves — the outlet describes her as looking just like her mother. USA Today calls Martin the spitting image of Gwyneth Paltrow, 54, who shares Apple and son Moses, 20, with ex-husband Chris Martin, 49. The U.S. paper also reports Moses made his own modeling debut for Burberry in June.

The stakes reach beyond one catwalk moment. USA Today reports Martin graduated from Vanderbilt University in May with a degree in law, history and society, told Vogue in February she once rebelled against following her parents but now dreams of acting, made her television debut in HBO's 'Rooster' in March, and will appear in an untitled Nancy Meyers film set for Christmas 2027. According to Harper's BAZAAR, she has also written songs for Coldplay including 'feelslikeimfallinginlove' and 'Let Somebody Go,' though she told Vogue she does not want to be a singer. Fashion is becoming progressively less extracurricular, as WWD frames it.

The debut signals a promising new chapter rather than a one-off, and the week suggested the house relationship is deepening: her runway appearance followed the May campaign for the same creative director, with broderie anglaise linking both moments. WWD notes that for famous children, a first walk most often serves as the beginning of a much longer runway career rather than a single surprise, pointing to Kaia Gerber, who turned one Calvin Klein walk into a full modeling career within the same fashion week. Vogue's report on Lou's Westwood debut, where Klum also walked Ottolinger's spring 2027 show on October 2, indicates the famous-daughter wave at Paris Fashion Week is only accelerating.