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Fashion Month is coming to an end, but one celebrity just made her Paris debut. 15-year-old Willow Smith showed up to Chanel's fall 2016 show in an unexpected antidote to the classic tweed skirt suits that walked the runway. Sitting front row alongside her mother, Jada Pinkett-Smith, she wore a grey mesh catsuit by the brand, futuristic white boots, and electric blue eyeliner.
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Though it was her first time at Paris Fashion Week, WWD posits that the design house could be grooming Willow to be its next face. After all, Lily-Rose Depp, who is also the teenage daughter of a celebrity power couple, starred in a Chanel eyewear campaign. When asked, she replied, "I think if they want me, I will do the best I possibly can and I will freakin' shine my light in every direction." Seems like a match made in heaven — or at least some kind of space-age utopia.
Update: Shortly after the show, Chanel announced that Willow Smith is indeed the new ambassador for the brand, though it's unclear what, exactly, she'll be doing with the role.
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