Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union’s daughter Zaya makes runway debut
She’s gonna be a supermodel.
Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union’s daughter Zaya, 15, made her runway debut throughout Paris Vogue Week Tuesday, strutting her stuff at Miu Miu’s fall/winter 2023 present.
Zaya modeled an outsized olive inexperienced knit blazer styled with an identical sweater and pencil skirt, carrying a brown leather-based bag and sporting matching patent slingback heels.
The key catwalk second comes after Zaya, who got here out as transgender in February 2020, was granted an official identify and gender change on Feb. 24.
Her proud mother and father sat entrance row on the present to assist their daughter, together with the household’s stylist, Thomas Christos Kikis.
“I’m not crying, you’re,” Wade, ever the doting dad, captioned an Instagram Story of his daughter strolling the runway.
Kikis additionally shared an Instagram put up about Zaya, writing that he had “tears in my eyes.”
The celeb stylist thanked the previous Warmth participant for his “infinite belief” in his imaginative and prescient, and Zaya for “for displaying me what it means to imagine in your self.”
“Thanks for centering her desires and desires at all times,” the NBA alum responded.
On Twitter, supporters applauded Zaya’s catwalk debut, with one individual writing, “Miu Miu is the one model that does stunt casting/celebrities strolling accurately.”
Zaya wasn’t the one well-known face (or nepo child) on the Miu Miu runway.
The excessive schooler was joined by actress Mia Goth, “The Crown” star Emma Corrin and musician Ethel Cain, together with Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin’s mannequin daughter Amelia Grey Hamlin.
The basketball famous person shares Zaya with ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches.
The previous couple has been embroiled in a authorized battle involving the teenager; Wade desires Zaya to “stay extra comfortably and actually in all points of her life,” whereas his ex accused him of “pressuring” their baby to “transfer ahead” with a reputation and gender change “with the intention to capitalize on monetary alternatives.”
