Anna Delvey 'Can't Help' Showing Off Ankle Monitor in Daring NYFW Outfits Before Walking the Runway (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Anna Delvey at NYFW.Photo:Dominik Bindl/Getty; Dominik Bindl/Getty

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Anna Delvey capped off New York Fashion Week with a runway moment.

TheDancing With the Starsnewbie and her Outlaw Agency with Kelly Cutrone put on three fashion shows on the last day of Fashion Week, and she wore head-turning outfits from each of the labels to be a walking billboard for brands.

For the last one, she quite literally walked in the show.

Anna Delvey at NYFW.Dominik Bindl/Getty

Dominik Bindl/Getty

To start the day, Outlaw Agency presentedPrivate Policy, a genderless label whose show was all about revisiting 2000s fashion in the office (the runway even included a little office motif). For the show, Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, wore a monochromatic sea foam green look from the label that consisted of an ankle-length sequin skirt and a sheer collared shirt. She also had a wool topper that she carried, telling PEOPLE that as beautiful as it was, it was just too hot to wear while she was working.

“The sea foam green goes well with my hair color,” she says with a laugh. “I need to start wearing more color — I’m just in black all the time, and that one was really beautiful.”

For the second show, the team presented Untitled&Co, who showed off plenty of sexiness on the runway. What would you expect, after all, from a label who thanks you for “being hot”? The brand also dressed Delvey for this show in a look that she tells PEOPLE was a little out of the box for her, but it was fun all the same.

In line with the new collection, this look was certainly hot. Delvey wore a ruffled white miniskirt with a printed corset topped with a blazer. Her outfit even featured a pink award ribbon on it from the label. She says it felt “very Paris Hilton,” evoking an “early aughts” feel that was a huge departure for her but felt fun.

Shao Yang and Anna Delvey at NYFW.Dominik Bindl/Getty

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Delvey’s New York Fashion Week was capped off with her big moment — one of her biggest since her house arrest was recently loosened and she was granted the ability to work outside the house. She walked in the SHAO show at the end of the evening.

In what she tells PEOPLE is the most “me” outfit of the day, she wore a long black skirt with a tailored black blazer with embellished lapels. Delvey has worn a number of designer Shao Yang’s pieces and has even co-designed some with her, and while she says she had a little bit of say in what she wore, she credits the label with the hard work that went into this look.

Shao Yang and Anna Delvey at NYFW.Randy Brooke

Randy Brooke

“We wanted to do a departure from the ankle bracelet thing, because with every outfit before, we kind of tried to make the ankle bracelet the centerpiece and it was a focus,” she says. “With this outfit, it was more covered. You couldn’t really see it other than from behind for the slit, so you see it’s a new phase.”

Delvey tells PEOPLE that she’s actively trying to switch to a watch version of her monitor but hasn’t been able to get it fully approved yet, which is why she still has the ankle monitor. No matter what, though, it’s become the focus of everything she does.

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As for walking the runway, Delvey says she was “riding the energy” of the day, which meant she wasn’t really nervous to stomp the catwalk.

“I think I’m more nervous to dance in front of a live audience,” she says with a laugh, referring to her upcomingDWTSgig.

“I did practice a little, and I think I’m a decent walker,” she says. “But I’m practicing more for dancing.”

Anna Delvey.Oliver Halfin

Oliver Halfin

In August,Delvey revived her social mediaafter being bannedas part of the ongoing immigration case, which stemmed from heroriginal grand larceny charges in 2019. On April 25, 2019, she was found guilty of eight charges, including attempted grand larceny in the first degree, grand larceny in the second degree, grand larceny in the third degree and theft of services. That May, she was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in state prison, fined $24,000, and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000.

On Oct. 5, 2022,Delvey was granted releasefrom an ICE facility in Orange County, N.Y., but she then had pay $10,000 bail, had to forfeit her social media and was placed on house arrest.

Delvey was first arrested for posing as a German heiress and scamming socialites, banks and hotels out of money. At the time of her arrest in 2017, it wasestimated that she had stolen $275,000. She had been labeled the “fake heiress” as her story made headlines, but as she recently told PEOPLE, she’s tired of the moniker.

“I hate it,” she said of the label. “I think that’s the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life.”

source: people.com