Bella Hadid shifted gears from Cannes heels to a flatter Saint-Tropez shoe on Sunday, taking a casual stroll with her brother Anwar Hadid in black leather thong sandals.
The model and Orebella founder wore Massimo Dutti’s Flat Leather Sandals, a $180 style with a toe separator, leather lining and insole, and a low flat base. The black pair had a rounded, slightly squared-off sole with visible stitching around the edge, a slim toe post and a wide curved strap that crossed over the foot. A low stacked heel lifted the back slightly without pushing the shoe into kitten heel height, which has been a popular pairing with thong sandals.
Hadid paired the sandals with a black midi Massimo Dutti dress with a subtly plunging V neckline and just as subtle of a slit on the skirt. She kept the look relaxed but still polished, adding black oval sunglasses, a woven black shoulder bag, stacked gold bangles, oversized gold earrings and layered necklaces, including a vintage Chanel pendant with interlocking C’s.
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After Cannes, the Saint-Tropez sandals read like an intentional downshift into something more casual. Hadid’s festival shoes had covered a wide range: Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami d’Orsay pumps with a spring 2003 Louis Vuitton dress, sharp black pumps with Tom Ford, white Prada pumps with a squared vamp for the “Garance” premiere, Jimmy Choo’s tortoiseshell Ixia 95 pumps with tan trousers and a ruffled sheer top, and metallic Puma Speedcats with a vintage Prada Sport set. The Massimo Dutti pair kept the same minimalist eye, but moved it into flat, vacation-weight leather.
Hadid’s Massimo Dutti sandals landed at the flatter, quieter end of a thong-sandal cycle that has been getting steadily dressier on celebrities. Kylie Jenner wore Manolo Blahnik’s Paterno thong sandals with a kitten heel courtside at Madison Square Garden in April, while Katie Holmes took Herbert Levine’s “Kiss and Tell” thong heels to the American Ballet Theatre’s Spring Gala in May. Last summer, Hailey Bieber kept Toteme’s black flip-flop kitten heels in heavy rotation, using the low heel the way she often uses a mule or barely-there sandal: clean, minimal and easy to repeat.
Hadid’s pair kept the toe-post shape but pulled it away from the dressed-up thong sandal trend. After a Cannes stretch of pointed pumps, Speedcats and archival Y2K heels, the sandal gave the silhouette a Saint-Tropez reset.
