This New York Fashion Week consisted of a pesky winter snowstorm, a new Calvin Klein designer, and … Housewives? Yes, this season belonged to all your favorite Real Housewives — representing everywhere from New York and Beverly Hills to Salt Lake City.
So who showed the most face throughout the festivities? The week started on Thursday with Lisa Rinna, who must be taking notes from her model daughter, Amelia Gray Hamlin. The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star walked in Jane Wade’s show wearing a boxy suit-inspired coat with a pinstripe shirt and tie and sleek glasses. Before her runway appearance, Rinna also attended the Marc Jacobs spring 2025 show and turned heads in a doll-like flared midi-skirt ensemble complemented by white horned heels and an edgier version of her iconic pixie hair.
On February 5, current Real Housewives of New York star and former J.Crew creative director Jenna Lyons walked in Lingua Franca’s first fashion show at the Bowery Hotel. Lyons wore a long red coat styled over a teddy-bear-print button-down and jeans. The somewhat wonky look was accessorized with a top hat and a dog, which she walked with a leather leash tied to a teddy bear. Sure. Fellow RHONY co-star Jessel Taank sat in the front row and cheered on her friend while wearing a Lingua Franca sweater that read “Jenna F*ing Lyons,” of course.
Then there was Luann de Lesseps, a.k.a. the Countess. Those who are cool (and not uncool) know de Lesseps as an OG Housewives star and performer. And while she didn’t exactly walk the runway, it only made sense that the cabaret-show woman brought the house down at smoke-friendly accessories brand Edie Parker’s launch party for its new edible. Adorned in sequins and a pink feather boa, the RHONY alum sang her hit songs with slightly edited lyrics for the affair, including “Money Can’t Buy You Grass” and “C’est Bong, C’est Bong!”
Dorinda Medley held a performance as well, adding “DJ” to her résumé at the Cut’s very own After Dark Fashion Week party. In between spinning beats, the Medley, who didn’t seem at all bothered by her recent boot from The Traitors, took photos with fans and fellow Housewives including New York’s Taank and Ubah Hassan as well as Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Meredith Marks and Bronwyn Newport — who might have been the “faciest” of them all.
Newport is a self-proclaimed woman of couture, and her freshman season of RHOSLC came with a lot of drama but also a lot of fashion. The newbie Housewife, who famously wore a Moschino hot-dog dress for a girls’ night out, sat in the front rows of Brandon Maxwell, Carolina Herrera, Christian Siriano, and Christopher John Rogers. In fact, it was Rogers’s “Exhale” show at the Brooklyn Navy Yard that saw some of Bravo’s most fashion-forward Housewives, including current RHONY stars Sai De Silva and Racquel Chevremont, who were joined by Lyons and Newport. The Housewives, wearing Roger’s bold looks, took over the front row alongside stars like Keke Palmer and Tamron Hall and even posed with the designer backstage right before his stylish Johnnie Walker after-party.
Throughout the week, Housewives stars were also spotted at shows for Christian Cowan; Sergio Hudson, which was also attended by former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss and her daughter, Riley; and Sally LaPointe’s basketball-inspired court side 15th anniversary show, where Marks and Taank mingled with front-row attendees Monica and Law Roach. I don’t know about you, but I appreciate the Housewives for bringing the real to Fashion Week, and I hope some Bravo cameras were rolling because I can’t wait to watch everything mentioned in this story unfold on TV later.