Zara X Stefano Pilati Fall 2024 Campaign with Gisele Bundchen by Steven Meisel
/Paris Fashion Week took a moment last week to toast Zara’s [IG] high-praise-worthy collaboration with designer Stefano Pilati [IG]
Announced officially in this old-school ad campaign with supermodel Gisele Bundchen and Pilati, lensed by Steven Meisel [IG], the hotly-anticipated Zara collection drops on October 3, 2024.
The fusion of Pilati’s forward-thinking design sensibilities and Gisele’s timeless elegance results in pieces that are both sophisticated and wearable. At the heart of the collection are structured blazers, emphasizing sharp, clean lines that are both powerful and feminine.
Read MoreZara Spring 2024 Studio Collection Campaign by Steven Meisel and Fabien Baron
/Zara [IG] drops its Studio Collection twice a year, with today’s Spring 2024 drop called Rêveries.
Real-world models include Fei Fei Sun, Nyawurh Chuol, rising model Rosalieke Fuchs and Vivienne Rohner. Are they pondering Betty Friedan’s life-changing book ‘The Feminine Mystique’ [1963] — but are not quite ready to tackle the deeply philosophical and life-unsettling Simone de Bouveoir treatise ‘The Second Sex’ [1949]?
Steven Meisel [IG] shoots the quartet in rich, mid-century midtones, sheerish blouses, cardigans and pencil skirts, complemented by interior furniture in sensual hues and slowly-increasing sunlight.
Read MoreZara Studio FW 2023 Night Glamour Drops October 5, Lensed by Steven Meisel
/Zara Studio [IG] channels Tom-Ford style, high-voltage glamour in a new Fall-Winter 2023 campaign with plenty of elegance and sex appeal.
We have well-executed model twinning from Angelina Kendall, Annemary Aderibigbe, Awar Odhiang, Ida Heiner and Nyawuhr Chuol and Sacha Quenby. / Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Pat McGrath
Photographer Steven Meisel [IG] captures the black riches, sophisticated, night-scene fashion styled by Karl Templer with creative direction by Fabien Baron.
Read MoreZara Studio's 'Spirited Romance' S/S 2023 Campaign Imagines Women in Solidarity
/A‘Spirited Romance’ swept through global cyberspace this week, as Zara Studio launched its S/S 2023 Campaign. The limited-edition, top tier of Zara’s spring offering inspires a spiritual pause on sleepless nights and digital frenzy.
Do you still remember the smell of fresh grass? Did you ever eat clover? How about just lying on on a blanket and seeing a sky so beautiful, it seems impossible that a climate emergency is at hand?
Models Annemary Aderbrigbe, Ava Christian, He Cong and Ida Heiner are the spring muses lensed by Steven Meisel. Frequent collaborator Fabien Baron acts as creative director in a moment where fashion swings back to sensual elegance and beautiful clothes, styled here by another Meisel-Baron collaborator Karl Templer.
There will always be contrived fashion around us, but the trend to clothes that we wear as honest pleasure — as opposed to them wearing us as artifice, an IG photo op and to feed some designer’s ego is real.
Read MoreSteven Meisel's 10 Fab Female Faces for Zara Studio Fall 2021 Campaign
/Steven Meisel on photography, Fabien Baron on art direction and Karl Templer as stylist are in the house for the new Zara Studio [IG] campaign — a creative effort that sings like an opera star. It’s not often that we just look at images and in 5 seconds know the photographer behind them.
Add 10 models who aren’t wooden mannequins, and Zara Studio has — not a remarkable campaign in a fashion history sense — but a unique, superbly-executed campaign that knocks on the doors of women’s psyches with joy, inner convictions and backbone. it makes AOC want a campaign or fashion story with women all around the world roaring in unison.
We love it, and AOC tends to reject campaigns and fashion stories that are formulaic. So Zara, Meisel, Baron and Templer took 10 unique faces: Amar Akway, Chiharu Okunugi, Kirsten Owen, Marisa Berenson, Meadow Walker, Precious Lee, Raquel Zimmermann, Rianne van Rompaey, Sasha Pivovarova and Yumi Nu and mixed a grade AAAAA studio campaign. That IS NOT an easy feat. ~ Anne
Read MoreMarta Ortega Perez 'Zara's Secret Weapon' by Steven Meisel for WSJ Magazine
/WSJ Magazine’s Elisa Lipsky-Karasz lands a rare interview with Marta Ortega Pérez, daughter of Zara founder Amancio Ortega. One of Zara’s finest image-makers Steven Meisel photographs Ortega Pérez for the interview.
Mr. Ortega is the founder and controlling shareholder of Inditex, which owns Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Uterqüe and Zara. The latter clothing company holds a commanding presence in 96 countries — often in the same high-rent district as Cartier, Chanel, Dior and Louis Vuitton.
WSJ writes that the original Chanel jacket might cost $8,550 wile a similar one at Zara’s sells for $120.
Read MoreSteven Meisel's ZARA Women SS Campaign With Abby, Achenrin, Mona Lights Creative Torch
/Legendary photographer Steven Meisel delivers another fashion-lover’s, heart-racing set of visuals with his new Zara Women Spring Summer 2021 Campaign. The Green team will be thrilled, as the Meisel crew is again working remotely and not spewing carbon and jet fuel all over the planet.
Equally important is the reality that no one in his or her right mind can make the argument that the images would be better if the entire Meisel ensemble was in the California desert.
Read MoreSteven Meisel's 'High Tension' ZARA FW 2020 Campaign: Mika, Mona, Rianne, Sacha
/Steven Meisel's 'High Tension' ZARA FW 2020 Campaign: Mika, Mona, Rianne, Sacha
Master photographer Steven Meisel captures ZARA’s Fall Winter 2020 campaign called ‘High Tension’. The music sets the mood straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Models Mika Schneider, Mona Tougaard, Rianne Van Rompaey and Sacha Quenby are styled by Karl Templer, with creative and video direction from Fabien Baron.