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Linda Evangelista hits the runway for NYFW, closes Fendi show

She sure knows how to strike a pose.

Linda Evangelista graced this year’s New York Fashion Week runway as she closed this year’s Fendi show on Friday.

The Canadian supermodel, 57, marked her return to the runway with a bang — dressed in a show-stopping Tiffany blue taffeta gown.

She was invited to take part in the show to mark the 25th anniversary of Fendi’s iconic Baguette bag.

At the show, the Italian fashion brand unveiled a surprise collaboration with Marc Jacobs.

Evangelista was seen strutting down the runway in her plush gown, adorned with diamond earrings, silver silk gloves, and accessorized with a signature Fendi Baguette bag.

This was Evangelista’s first appearance on the runway since her botched surgery. AP
The model closed Fendi’s show at New York Fashion Week. AP

The model revealed she would be part of the show in an Instagram post back in July.

That same month, she settled a lawsuit over a “botched” cosmetic procedure that she claimed left her “deformed.”

Evangelista first revealed the results of the procedure on social media in September 2021.

She claimed at the time that CoolSculpting — an FDA-approved “fat-freezing” procedure described as a noninvasive liposuction alternative — had left her “brutally disfigured” and “permanently deformed.”

Linda Evangelista on October 3, 2021, a month after her botched surgery. KEVIN C DOWNS

After suing CoolSculpting’s parent company, Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. for $50 million in damages, Evangelista revealed in July that the saga is over.

“I’m pleased to have settled the CoolSculpting case,” she wrote in a statement.

“I look forward to the next chapter of my life with friends and family, and am happy to put this matter behind me. I am truly grateful for the support I have received from those who have reached out.”