Stefano can still pose!
Gisele is being outmodeled (is that a word?) here…
Tbh, I wish he used someone else because weirdly I don’t think she had that kind of presence anymore. She is either Mother Nature or Glamour girl and here, she is neither. But the name Gisele will generate a lot of buzz. He could have used Claudia Schiffer.
The collection is very actually very bourgeois, compared to what he is doing at his own brand. It’s still quite austere but also very interesting in terms of design for the most adventurous pieces.
I don’t worry about the quality of Zara. You know what you are getting and sometimes for exclusive collections, they kind of elevate their standards. I bought a jacket from their Atelier line, the NG 18th inspired jacket and the quality was good.
Indeed I expect the quality to be similar to Massimo Dutti.
What I think is the success of this collection is the actual fact that it feels designed. It looks like he adapted his propos to Zara. I find this superior to the mess he did for Fendi where the standards are more elevated.
A lot of it seems very directed at a fashion savvy crowd. Some ugly stuff, some questionable things but it’s a good collection. I’m tempted to buy a lot of stuff actually from both men and women.