For the Fall 2024 Balmain Menswear Collection, Creative Director Olivier Rousteing put one word up front: "Luxury has many meanings. And this one screams luxury."

Then who better to close the show than someone who knows luxury well, supermodel Naomi Campbell. Campbell was the only woman to take the runway for this presentation, closing the show after 54 mostly maximalist looks. Campbell wore a gold headpiece and "also wore gold arms connected to a belt that ran vertically down her face and held a metallic bouquet," the Daily Mail reported. Naomi looked sensational in a quirky ensemble of a bold blouse and high-waisted trousers." Campbell completed the look by slipping an oversized camel coat over her shoulders.

Campbell then joined hands with Rustanding to close the show.

Balmain's collection was pop art with AI-generated fabrics. While certainly bold, Campbell's look was one of the most minimalist looks of the show. The collection was a fusion of pattern mixing, with bold oranges, reds, and purples fused with polka dots, stripes, and prints. The full show can be viewed here. [Campbell has a long relationship with Balmain and Rustan and was featured in the campaign for the Spring 2022 collection, shot by photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. In this campaign, Rustan said, "I have a mix of legends who have inspired me since childhood and some of the most remarkable new talents today."

The year before, also at Paris Fashion Week, Campbell returned to the runway (to enthusiastic screams) to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rustanding's appointment as Balmain's creative director. 2016 saw Campbell join fellow supermodel reunited with Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer for the Spring 2016 campaign. The campaign was shot by legendary photographer Steven Klein.

"These four singular talents have inspired me from day one," Rousteing said of Campbell, Crawford, Schiffer, and Klein in a press release at the time. It was their editorials that first showed me the amazing transformative power of fashion when I was a schoolboy in Bordeaux." Today, many years later, their iconic images are still often found in the jumble of mood boards in my (and almost every other designer's) atelier. Working with them was a dream come true."

Later, Rousteing praised the legends on Instagram, writing, "U made me love FASHION yesterday, U make me love FASHION today, and U re going to make me love FASHION in the FUTURE (U made me love FASHION yesterday, U make me love FASHION today, and U re going to make me love FASHION in the future)," the designer himself wrote alongside each of the models. There was no doubt in my mind that the final image was perfect. Looking at them now, I'd like to think that one day these shots might become part of a future designer's mood board."