I was idly browsing the most recent Gucci Cruise 2027 collection on my phone a few nights ago, swiping through pics to see what creative director Demna Gvasalia wants us all to be wearing next year, when suddenly, I stopped in my tracks. (Or is it my scroll?) Who was that brunette model? Their bone structure looked familiar… very familiar to any millennial who came of age watching The Simple Life back in 2003. That blink-and-you’ll-miss-it model cameo was none other than Paris Whitney Hilton, who walked the runway at the Gucci show looking like a completely different person as a full-on brunette!
Now, Hilton rarely deviates from her signature look, of which long, perfectly curled or waved blonde hair is a key element. But she did so for Demna, slipping on a chocolate brown wig with sideswept bangs to walk the runway at the Times Square-set show and pairing it with a bright yellow dress and fuzzy capelet. If you were watching her walk quickly past, you might not notice it was Hilton, but upon closer examination, it’s definitely Paris going semi-incognito. We love a good change-it-up moment, though we’re pretty sure this one was just temporary, adding to the fun of the runway show. (Tom Brady also walked the show, and Cindy Crawford closed it!)
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Hilton has gone brunette a few times in the past, including for Halloween, where she’ll pull on a dark wig to change up her look with various costumes. Back in 2022, she went undercover for a day at Disneyland in Wednesday Addams-style pigtails, though some fans thought she looked more like her aunt, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards, than the Addams Family character. (Ha, we totally see it!) While it’s highly unlikely Hilton will ever permanently ditch her blonde hair, she could totally play her own alter ego or long-lost twin sister in this glam Gucci look.
