David Beckham’s Son Romeo Just Made His (Incognito) Paris Fashion Week Debut

From the Jenners and the Hadids to Kaia Gerber and Leland Fraser, fashion has long been a natural professional home for the children of celebrities. If we’re already marveling at beautiful clothes, why not also admire the wonders of beautiful genetics?

This theorem played out at the Balenciaga spring 2025 show during Paris Fashion Week, where Romeo Beckham—the 22-year-old son of Victoria and David Beckham, younger brother of Brooklyn, 25, and elder of Cruz, 19, and Harper, 13—made his runway debut on Monday.

On the wooden catwalk, which was fashioned to resemble designer Demna’s grandmother’s dining table, the second-born Beckham wore a pink-and-blue striped polo shirt, low-slung faded jeans, humongous silver sneakers, and comically wide sunglasses that shielded his eyes like Zorro’s mask. Affixed to a plastic coil keychain around his wrist, he carried an iPhone whose screen bore the Balenciaga logo.

Romeo Beckham on the Balenciaga spring 2025 runway.

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“Proud of you mate, well done,” Romeo’s dad David wrote on Instagram, while his mum Victoria—who presented her eponymous brand’s spring collection in Paris last week—also shared a video of her son’s runway walk to her Instagram story.

Previously, Romeo followed in his dad’s pro-soccer footsteps, playing forward for Inter Miami’s reserve team (of which David Beckham is a co-owner) from 2021 to 2023 before transferring to Brentford FC’s B team, where he purportedly quit earlier this year to focus on modeling.

But fashion, too, is the Beckham family business, and Romeo’s dabbled in the industry for over half his life. At age 10, he posed alongside models Cara Delevingne and Edie Campbell in a Burberry spring 2013 campaign photographed by Mario Testino, and years later, at 18, he appeared in ads for Saint Laurent’s fall 2021 collection.

In the age of instant show recaps on Instagram and TikTok, celeb runway cameos are a boon to the fashion week ecosystem. This season, the Paris shows have been star-studded. Just earlier today, Willem Dafoe, Hillary Swank, and Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban—the 16-year-old daughter of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban—all graced the catwalk at Miu Miu. (A year ago, the Australian singer/eventual Sweat Tour collaborator Troye Sivan did the same.)