Irina Shayk ‘honoured’ to wear dress featuring hand-sculpted lion head

Schiaparelli creative director Daniel Roseberry told his followers on Instagram the leopard, the lion and the she-wolf designs were all inspired by part of Dante Alighieri’s poem Divine Comedy called Inferno.

Irina Shayk wore a fake lion head on her dress as part of a fashion show in France (PA)

Irina Shayk has said she was “honoured” to wear a fake lion head on her dress as part of a fashion show in France.

The 37-year-old model said the “image of pride” was made by “incredible artists” at fashion house Schiaparelli for her to walk the runway during Haute Couture Week in Paris.