From the Jenners and the Hadids to Kaia Gerber and Leland Fraser, fashion has long been a natural professional home for the children of celebrities. If weâre already marveling at beautiful clothes, why not also admire the wonders of beautiful genetics?
This theorem played out at the Balenciaga spring 2025 show during Paris Fashion Week, where Romeo Beckhamâthe 22-year-old son of Victoria and David Beckham, younger brother of Brooklyn, 25, and elder of Cruz, 19, and Harper, 13âmade his runway debut on Monday.
On the wooden catwalk, which was fashioned to resemble designer Demnaâs grandmotherâs dining table, the second-born Beckham wore a pink-and-blue striped polo shirt, low-slung faded jeans, humongous silver sneakers, and comically wide sunglasses that shielded his eyes like Zorroâs mask. Affixed to a plastic coil keychain around his wrist, he carried an iPhone whose screen bore the Balenciaga logo.
âProud of you mate, well done,â Romeoâs dad David wrote on Instagram, while his mum Victoriaâwho presented her eponymous brandâs spring collection in Paris last weekâalso shared a video of her sonâs runway walk to her Instagram story.
Previously, Romeo followed in his dadâs pro-soccer footsteps, playing forward for Inter Miamiâs reserve team (of which David Beckham is a co-owner) from 2021 to 2023 before transferring to Brentford FCâs B team, where he purportedly quit earlier this year to focus on modeling.
But fashion, too, is the Beckham family business, and Romeoâs dabbled in the industry for over half his life. At age 10, he posed alongside models Cara Delevingne and Edie Campbell in a Burberry spring 2013 campaign photographed by Mario Testino, and years later, at 18, he appeared in ads for Saint Laurentâs fall 2021 collection.
In the age of instant show recaps on Instagram and TikTok, celeb runway cameos are a boon to the fashion week ecosystem. This season, the Paris shows have been star-studded. Just earlier today, Willem Dafoe, Hillary Swank, and Sunday Rose Kidman-Urbanâthe 16-year-old daughter of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urbanâall graced the catwalk at Miu Miu. (A year ago, the Australian singer/eventual Sweat Tour collaborator Troye Sivan did the same.)
