It’s Couture, Honey! How Lisa Rinna Transformed Into a Fashion Star

Lisa Rinna has abandoned her housewife uniform, trading her sequined button-ups and skinny jeans for over-the-top fashions. These days, you can catch her sitting front-row, dressed in outré sets and mushroom wigs. Or, as she put it herself, “It’s couture, honey. Look at the tag.”

While Rinna admits that new cast members on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills forced her to reevaluate her style, it was her 2023 departure from the Bravo show that jumpstarted her new life in the fashion world. “About two weeks after I left the show, I got a call from my publicist saying, ‘How would you feel about going to Paris in four days for the Kenzo show? They’ve invited you to sit front row,’” she recalls. “I didn’t have anything to do, so I said yes.”

The fall 2023 season proved life-changing for Rinna, who racked up more and more invitations as she stayed in Paris. Since then, she’s become a front row regular, from New York’s buzziest runways—Marc Jacobs and Luar among them—to Demna’s last Balenciaga show in Paris. She isn’t the only rising fashion star in her family: her youngest daughter, Amelia Gray Hamlin, has become a runway regular, though Rinna admits she tries not to cramp her style. “I try not to go to a lot of her shows because I think it’s really important for her to have her own moment,” she says. (Her elder daughter, Delilah, also dabbles in modeling. The sisters were recently photographed by Steven Klein for the September 2025 issue of Vogue.)

Here, Lisa Rinna tells Vogue about her earliest fashion memories, how Erika Jayne made her step up her style game, and the show she dreams about attending.

Vogue: Can you tell me about your earliest memory of fashion?

Lisa Rinna: I grew up in Medford, Oregon, and we used to go to San Francisco to visit my grandmother and they had an I. Magnin there. My earliest memories were shopping at I. Magnin with my mom and just being enamored by the fashion and just the beauty in the store. Then I got my first Seventeen, Mademoiselle, and Vogue when I was 16. That really then transformed me because I would get it every month and it would be my escape into that I. Magnin world that I discovered with my mom.