{"id":55862,"date":"2026-05-04T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/55862\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:22:09","slug":"venus-williams-takes-the-crisp-white-shoe-trend-into-met-gala-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/55862\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams Takes the Crisp White Shoe Trend Into Met Gala Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tVenus Williams<\/a> took the crisp white shoe trend<\/a> into Met Gala<\/a> weekend on Friday night, arriving with her husband Andrea Preti at Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos\u2019 pre-Gala party in New York City in a pair of bright white mules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tVenus Williams<\/a>, who wears a pair of white mules<\/a>, and her husband Andrea Preti seen at Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos Met Gala<\/a> pre-party at their NoMad apartment on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWilliams\u2019 shoes appeared to be Givenchy\u2019s white leather Lookbook slide heels, though the pair she wore had an all-black insole rather than the more typical Givenchy finish, which often includes a visible Givenchy label or signature on the leather insole. The difference could point to a custom pair or an earlier production run.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams\u2019 pair still put the emphasis on a very particular kind of white shoe: closed at the front, squared off at the toe and cut with a smooth vamp that covered the top of the foot. The heel was the detail that kept it from reading like a plain mule. Rather than a straight block or thin stiletto, it was built like a short, tapered column, fuller under the sole, narrowed through the middle and opened slightly again at the floor. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tVenus Williams and Andrea Preti seen at Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos Met Gala pre-party at their NoMad apartment on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe tennis superstar wore the mules with Acler\u2019s Evandale maxi dress, a pale cream style printed with soft blue and green florals. Williams kept the white story going with a cropped jacket and a structured top-handle bag.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe party also drew a shoe-heavy crowd ahead of Monday\u2019s carpet. Ashley Graham<\/a> opted for a strappier pair, gold Gianvito Rossi Manhattan sandals, while Serena Williams chose black pointed flats with a sculptural Magda Butrym minidress. Nicole Kidman, another 2026 Met Gala co-chair, kept to classics with black stilettos with a liquid black tailored look.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA closer look at Venus Williams\u2019 crispy white leather mules.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWilliams has a varied Met Gala footwear history<\/a> of her own. In 2025, her custom Lacoste look came with heels trimmed in leather pleats and crystal beads. In 2024, she wore silver Gianvito Rossi Portofino 105 sandals with a mirrored Marc Jacobs gown.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe appearance came just days before Williams steps onto the 2026 Met Gala carpet<\/a> as one of the night\u2019s co-chairs, alongside Beyonc\u00e9, Nicole Kidman and Anna Wintour. This year\u2019s Costume Institute exhibition, \u201cCostume Art,\u201d<\/a> opens May 10 and brings fashion into conversation with artworks from across the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s collection, with the dressed body at the center of the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams took the crisp white shoe trend into Met Gala weekend on Friday night, arriving with her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[33777,734,7541,33838,23314],"class_list":{"0":"post-55862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jeff-bezos","8":"tag-footwear-news","9":"tag-jeff-bezos","10":"tag-met-gala","11":"tag-mules","12":"tag-venus-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116514399401051327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}