Why Kris Jenner and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Girlfriend Chose to Wear Vintage Valentino and Versace

At the Bezos wedding in Venice, Kris Jenner wore archival Valentino. Vittoria Ceretti, the Italian model and Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend, wore vintage Versace. Both women could wear anything and afford anything. So why go back into the archives?

I can’t tell you what was in their minds. I can tell you why it makes sense to me.

My visit to Rome in 2025 for Dolce & Gabbana was truly amazing.

Vintage as the new status symbol

To wear vintage today is to say: I don’t need new to feel new. In fact, I feel more powerful in a garment that has already had a life.

Kris Jenner knows how to make a spectacle with what she wears. This time she didn’t pick something straight off the runway. She picked vintage Valentino, a house that defined Italian elegance.

Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner in vintage Dolce & Gabbana, a second outfit.

And then there is Vittoria. She was born and raised in Italy, so she knows what a Versace gown carries, and most of all one from Gianni’s time, as hers was: drama, gold and no apology.

Red carpets are the new museums

We used to go to a museum to see the gowns of the past. Now women wear them again. And the women doing it have nothing left to prove. For Kris Jenner, vintage Valentino is a way of bowing to the masters.

Vittoria is one of the faces of high fashion right now. When a model of her generation wears vintage Versace, younger women notice.

Nostalgia is the new innovation

There is a yearning in 2025. We are tired of too much choice and of everything looking the same. For me, wearing vintage is a quiet answer to that.

I have spent years forecasting trends, and what I see now is a hunger for meaning. Women want a piece with a story and a past. A dress that has already been to another gala, in another decade, has both.

The Italian soul of fashion

Valentino and Versace are both Italian to the core. Italian fashion respects what came before it. For me, that is what luxury means: work done by hand, including the parts nobody will ever see.

Eco-luxury

There is also the planet. A vintage gown is one that didn’t have to be made. You can care about that and still look glamorous.

Vintage takes taste

Let’s be honest. Anyone with the money can walk into a boutique and buy this season’s look. Vintage takes taste, knowledge and patience. A vintage Valentino cape or a Gianni-era Versace gown has to be hunted down, and then looked after.

Gracie’s forecast: the return of the archive

Expect more women to follow. I predict archive pieces on red carpets, in editorial shoots and at big weddings. Being first will matter less than being different.

I also predict more vintage ateliers, more rental of vintage couture, younger women holding on to their grandmothers’ wardrobes, and luxury houses re-releasing their famous pieces as they were.

Start with your own wardrobe

So if you want to make an impression this year, start with what you already own. Pull out the pearl-trimmed blazer, the velvet gown, the sequinned Versace mini that has been waiting for a second act.

Gracie Opulanza, fashion with soul not fast fashion.