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Celebrities packed Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 for Off-White’s Spring/Summer 2025 runway presentation. Stars like Camila Cabello, Zayn Malik, Paris Jackson, Issa Rae, Flavor Flav, and Sunisa Lee sat front row to view the sportswear-inspired collection. Mary J. Blige was especially sportswear-focused as she posed for photos in front of guests.

Mary J. Blige in tassels and thigh-high boots

Wearing a leather mini dress, Mary J. Blige enters the Off-White fashion show during New York Fashion Week on September 08, 2024
Mary J. Blige outside Off-White New York Fashion Week | 1st and 2nd images: Christian Vierig/Getty Images; 3rd image: Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images

Mary J. Blige is a huge fan of Off-White and the late Virgil Abloh. Naturally, the rapper wore head-to-toe clothing from the luxury fashion house, now helmed by Ibrahim Kamara. The “Real Love” singer wore a leather bomber jacket-inspired Off-White mini dress with white sleeves and a drop waist. As onlookers noticed, the dress was actually a skort, with the shorts featuring a cargo pocket on the left thigh.

Wearing a black, white, and red leather mini dress, Mary J. Blige poses for photographers at the Off-White fashion show
Mary J. Blige at the Off-White show on September 8, 2024 | Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

Blige’s dress was trimmed yellow, white, red, and black with striped beading. Sexy tassels hung off the skirt and top’s hem, giving the dress movement and depth. A varsity-style patch on the dress’s right chest read “OFF.” Before arriving at the fashion show, the 53-year-old posted three photos of her outfit to Instagram, captioning them, “Off White but it’s giving black.”

Wearing a black, white, and red leather mini dress, Mary J. Blige poses for photographers at the Off-White fashion show
Mary J. Blige on September 08, 2024 in NYC | Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

Blige paired the look with orange square-rimmed sunglasses and thigh-high ruched leather boots. She accessorized with oversized gold hoops, green coffin nails, and diamond rings. The “Family Affair” singer wore her go-to red hair in a wavy ponytail and added a smokey eye beneath her sunglasses. Blige’s look certainly adhered to the Spring/Summer 2025 collection’s theme, which represented a mixture of America and Africa through the lens of sportswear.

Celebrities love Off-White

Four celebrities, Camila Cabello, Alessandra Ambrosio, Sunisa Lee, and Issa Rae, pose before the Off-White fashion show in their Off-White outfits
Camila Cabello, Alessandra Ambrosio, Sunisa Lee, and Issa Rae at the Off-White show | 1st, 2nd, and 4th images: Christian Vierig/Getty Images; 3rd image: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

Kamara and his Off-White team transformed Pier 2 into a collection of community pick-up basketball courts for the presentation. The Off-White designer told The New York Times, “I’m working at an American brand, founded by an African American man, made in Milan and shown in Paris. It’s already very global. To that I’m adding Africa, my British experience, clubbing in London … I look at Off-White as a melting pot of ideas.”

Eight celebrities, Sunisa Lee, Eva Chen, Issa Rae, Lena Waithe, Zayn Malik, Camila Cabello, Paris Jackson, and DDG, sit front row at Off-White during the September 2024 New York Fashion Week
Sunisa Lee, Eva Chen, Issa Rae, Lena Waithe, Zayn Malik, Camila Cabello, Paris Jackson, and DDG at the Off-White show | Michael Loccisano/Getty Images
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The crowd certainly loved this melting pot. Singer/songwriter Camila Cabello wore Off-White via one of the label’s classic black dresses with a black mesh overlay. Model Alessandra Ambrosio donned a mesh hooded mini dress over a lacy negligee, and Olympian Sunisa Lee sported an Off-White grey sleeveless dress. Insecure star Issa Rae wore a stunning black Off-White gown trimmed in crystals at the neckline.