Ever since she started dating professional equestrian–slash–cattle breeder Adan Banuelos, Bella Hadid has added a lot more yeehaw to her life. No one is complaining, especially not about her and Banuelos trotting around the Meatpacking District and sharing a kiss on horseback during a New York Fashion Week event — which is exactly what happened on Thursday night.
Hadid and Banuelos arrived at a screening of Horse Sense, a short-film series in which Banuelos is featured, wearing full western garb. We’re talking chaps, fringes, and belts that appear to weigh more than a newborn baby. Before the screening, which took place at a pop-up for the luxury westernwear brand Kemo Sabe, the couple hopped on horseback for a fashionable demonstration of “cutting,” an equestrian competition that is Banuelos’s specialty (it’s about how well a horse can separate one cow from its herd). Here they are, kissing on horseback like a couple of spaghetti-western stars who think they’re in a rom-com:
Bella’s mother, Yolanda Hadid, was also at the event with her cowboy lover, fiancé Joseph Jingoli (he’s actually a construction CEO, but he lives on a farm in Texas), according to “Page Six.” Later, Bella and Banuelos slipped into some more comfortable on-theme clothing: leather pants with another huge belt and a fringed corset top for her, and more jeans and boots for him. In a transcendent moment of romantic brand integration, Banuelos’s shirt was embroidered with the logo for Kin, Bella’s nonalcoholic-drink brand:
It’s a slippery slope. One day, you are living in a motor home with your new equestrian boyfriend, and the next, the two of you are smooching in the saddle. That’s cowboy math, I guess.