Zara Spring 2024 Studio Collection Campaign by Steven Meisel and Fabien Baron

Zara 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.

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Dolce & Gabbana Spring-Summer 2024 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Dolce & Gabbana Spring-Summer 2024 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Designers Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana work with art director Fabien Baron and stylist Karl Templer to create a Spring-Summer 2024 campaign rich with high-class swagger, penetrating eye confidence, and an attitude that says “judge me at your own risk — because I will take you down.”

With Steven Meisel [IG] on photography, the images will have these ingredients because Meisel often plays high-low with his human subjects. As a result, there are layers of meaning and interpretation that seep out of the images and into our own minds. They are created to be mildly disruptive, another characteristic that makes them interesting and one that Meisel understands deeply.

What AOC loves about Dolce & Gabbana is that their garden is an Italian garden in the same way Loro Piana and Brunello Cucinelli are Italian gardens. But they are planting different crops growing in different parts of Italy and Sicily and Sardinia — from Rome to Milan to Florence and Venice.

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Zara Studio FW 2023 Night Glamour Drops October 5, Lensed by Steven Meisel

Zara 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.

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Zara Studio's 'Spirited Romance' S/S 2023 Campaign Imagines Women in Solidarity

Zara 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.

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Bella Hadid in Brooklyn Girl Crew Ports 1961 FW 2022 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Bella Hadid in Brooklyn Girl Crew Ports 1961 FW 2022 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Top models Achenrin Madit, Bella Hadid, Mila Van Eeten, Sora Choi, and Vittoria Ceretti come together in the streets of Brooklyn for the Ports 1961 [IG] fall-winter 2022 campaign. A top-tier crew comes together consisting of photographer Steven Meisel and stylist Karl Templer, with art direction by Fabien Baron.

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A Little Bit Edgy Kaia Gerber Fronts Ports 1961 Campaign by Steven Meisel

A Little Bit Edgy Kaia Gerber Fronts Ports 1961 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Kaia Gerber returns to Ports 1961’s spring 2022 campaign, fronting a brand not nearly as staid as it used to be. Steven Meisel flashes Gerber in the studio, with styling by Karl Templer and art direction by Fabien Baron. Platform boots, as well as chained jewelry create a rebellious, good-girl mood./ Guido Palau on hair; Pat McGrath on makeup

“Silver sequins embroidered on a coat give the illusion of grommets, an example of the collection’s luxurious execution mixed with a fresh toughness, and in perfect synergy with Kaia Gerber’s confident spirit,” Ports 1961 tells the press.

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Steven Meisel's 10 Fab Female Faces for Zara Studio Fall 2021 Campaign

Steven 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

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Steven Meisel's ZARA Women SS Campaign With Abby, Achenrin, Mona Lights Creative Torch

Steven 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.

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Zara SS 2020 Campaign By Steven Meisel Is Balanced by Models Own COVID-Quarantine Images

Zara SS 2020 Campaign By Steven Meisel Is Balanced by Models Own COVID-Quarantine Images

Master photographer Steven Meisel produces exquisite images for Zara’s SS2020 campaign featuring Abby Champion, Julia Nobis, Lexi Boling, Mona Tougaard, Ning Jinl and Sacha Quenby. Karl Templer styles the ensemble in boho vibe, vintage images with creative direction from Fabien Baron. / Makeup by Pat McGrath; hair by Guido Palau, set design by Mary Howard

The new campaign has a beautiful section on the Zara website. Inquiring minds, accustomed to Zara’s high style imagery, wonder how the brand will move forward with creative photography in the age of COVID-19.

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