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Vogue Arabia
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue Arabia
After the Met Gala, it's Official: Gigi Hadid is a Miu Miu Girl
Photo: Miu Miu High society portraiture from the 1920s was the frame of reference for Miu Miu's 2025 leathergoods campaign, photographed by Steven Meisel and then digitally 'painted' to echo brushstrokes. During this period of history, sitting by yourself for a portrait was not a common practice for women; capturing a female while she's alone and at peace was an intense, yet also meaningful moment. 'There is life in the stories,' says Hadid. 'I love learning about these references from the creative team, and communicating that through the image.' Over the years, the model has cemented her presence in the industry as a master of versatility, from her runway shows and campaign shoots to her magazine covers. In 2017, she starred on the inaugural issue of Vogue Arabia, and last month, covered Vogue, each time tapping into different visual identities. For this campaign, donning a wavy bob and layers of Miu Miu – emblematic of the brand's quintessential playful-yet-polished aesthetic – Hadid carries different iterations of the suede Wander and Arcadie Matelassé bags. Echoing the name of the distinctive bag she models, wandering is an activity that Hadid enjoys tremendously – especially as a mother. She says that if she could wander anywhere, it would be to Disneyland, with her daughter Khai. And while Hadid has the opportunity to travel to all corners of the world, her ultimate escape is to her farmhouse in Pennsylvania, with Khai: 'Away from cities, away into nature – that is paradise for me.'
Irish Examiner
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Bella Hadid says chronic illness has made it ‘hard to take a shower most days'
Model Bella Hadid has said her chronic illness has made it 'hard to take a shower most days'. The 28-year-old was diagnosed with chronic Lyme Disease in the early 2010s, a bacterial infection carried by ticks, which can cause tiredness and a loss of energy. Speaking about living with the condition, Hadid said in an interview with British Vogue: 'I think nobody really understands chronic illness. Hadid spoke about her experience with Lyme Disease in the magazine (Steven Meisel/British Vogue/PA) 'It's hard to take a shower most days, which I promise, guys, if you're reading this, I shower every day. 'But sometimes, if I have one day off, if I can get in the shower and make myself breakfast, I see that as an accomplishment. 'Our interview today was at 3pm. I was in excruciating pain until 11am and had a very tough morning. Can you make this all sound a little bit prettier and less dramatic?' Hadid, who will grace the cover of the magazine's June issue, was diagnosed with the disease along with her mother Yolanda, who starred in US reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and her brother. Most people who are diagnosed with the condition will recover – however, a small proportion will continue to have symptoms, such as tiredness, aches and loss of energy, which can last for several years. Hadid went on to explain that she went to visit her mother and stepfather in Texas after her condition improved, where she met her boyfriend, equestrian Adan Banuelos. She told Vogue: 'So I go, I'm with my stepdad. We move cows, we're on trail rides, and I'm starting to feel a little better, but just still dealing with my own stuff. Then, the next day, I meet my boyfriend. 'I saw him walk in (to a horse show) and it was like a gust of fresh air. So he basically came in, walked into the exhibit hall, which is where we do all of the show stuff. I was getting a cowboy hat fitted. 'I just saw him and I always wanted the cowboy, and he's pretty gorgeous, let me tell you something.' The cover of the June edition of British Vogue (Steven Meisel/British Vogue/PA) She explained that Banuelos did not know who she was when he met her, and added she 'can't wait to be a mom' saying that 'family is on my mind'. In her modelling career Hadid has made tens of appearances on the cover of Vogue, and was voted model of the year by the British Fashion Council in 2022, in 2023 she was named in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Her 30-year-old sister Gigi is also a model, who herself was voted model of the year by the British Fashion Council in 2016. The full feature with Hadid can be read in the June issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday May 20.
Fashion United
12-05-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
Zara's 50th birthday becomes day of protest for Inditex employees
To mark the 50th anniversary of Zara, employees from various fashion chains owned by the Spanish Zara parent company Inditex took to the streets in La Coruña, Spain. They protested against what they see as a 'gradual' reduction of their labour rights by the company's management. The group is publicly accused of deliberately disadvantaging sales staff throughout the province, a practice they themselves describe as a 'form of punishment'. While media attention last Friday was focused on the celebrations for Zara's 50th anniversary – an anniversary that Zara and the Inditex Group celebrated with a video directed by Steven Meisel featuring 50 iconic models, a limited capsule collection and a pop-up activation around the first Zara store in La Coruña – Inditex employees used the platform for their protests. Directly in front of that first Zara store on the corner of Calle Juan Flórez and Avenida de Arteixo, employees gathered to emphasise their demands. They once again drew attention to what they see as the gradual erosion of the labour rights of Inditex employees in the province. Protest by Inditex shop assistants in front of the Zara store on Juan Flórez street in La Coruña on May 9, 2025. Credits: CIG. The Confederación Intersindical Galega (CIG), the leading trade union representing Inditex shop workers in the province of La Coruña, stated that this corporate policy is part of a strategy to increasingly shift collective bargaining to the national level, and thus away from the provincial level. According to the CIG, this step is interpreted as a reaction and also as a 'punishment' for the combative stance that Inditex employees in the province of La Coruña have traditionally shown in their commitment to better working conditions. This stance resulted in the highly publicised protests of 2022, which ultimately led to an agreement that significantly improved working conditions for Inditex employees in the province. As a result of the agreement, the Spanish fashion group was forced to extend the agreed improvements to the entire country. With the signing of a historic agreement in February 2023, it was possible to stop the escalation of the protests, which had already spread to the workforce in other Spanish provinces where Inditex operates. Since then, the company seems to have become convinced that negotiations on the working conditions of shop employees should in future be conducted exclusively at national level, away from regional particularities. This stance would make it possible to implement the harmonisation of working conditions for all Inditex employees in Spain, regardless of chain or geographical location, as demanded by the trade unions CCOO, UGT and other representative associations. The CIG, on the other hand, sees this change of strategy primarily as an attempt to move the negotiations away from the provincial level and thus from La Coruña. This is the region whose combative stance in 2022 formed the basis for the provincial agreement that ultimately led to a significant improvement in the working conditions of all Inditex shop employees. Protest by Inditex shop assistants in front of the Zara store on Juan Flórez street in La Coruña on May 9, 2025. Credits: CIG. Following the signing of the historic agreement, the Inditex national negotiating table was reconvened on March 22, 2024. The aim was to achieve further progress in the gradual improvement of the working conditions of shop employees. However, according to the CIG, these promised improvements have not yet been formalised. At the same time, the trade union criticises that the negotiating table at provincial level is no longer being convened – a level at which, in their view, the greatest successes for employees have so far been achieved, both inside and outside La Coruña. The CIG is therefore continuing to demand that Inditex comply with its agreement to resume negotiations at provincial level. This demand led to a controversial incident in June 2024, when trade union delegates from the CIG occupied the Inditex headquarters in Arteixo. After several days, they were eventually removed from the building by the Guardia Civil. 'We are very pleased to be involved in the success of this great company, but it must not come at the expense of cutting our rights,' denounced Lucía Domínguez, a CIG delegate, during the protest last Friday, May 9, in front of the Zara store on Juan Flórez street in La Coruña. According to the trade union, as also confirmed by CIG delegates during the protest, the group is deliberately trying to weaken the power to act of the provincial committees. These are the bodies through which crucial improvements in working and salary conditions have so far been negotiated. In addition, Inditex wants to undermine the role of the CIG as the majority representative of employees in La Coruña. Despite an existing agreement to resume negotiations at provincial level, according to the CIG, all outstanding labour and social issues that have been unresolved for three years would continue to be blocked. The company argues that these issues are now being dealt with in other national negotiating forums. In doing so, Inditex refers both to the specially initiated national negotiating table and to the first national collective agreement for large fashion and shoe chains promoted by the Asociación Retail Textil España (Arte) – a process that was significantly supported by the group precisely during the period between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, amid the greatest tensions between Inditex and its sales teams. Against this background, the trade union CCOO has now decided to suspend negotiations at national level for the time being. Instead, it wants to prioritise the regional negotiating tables again in order to achieve concrete improvements in the working conditions for employees in the retail sector. All of this, the CIG criticises in a statement, is part of 'a strategy to alienate labour relations from the workers in La Coruña', which is also seen 'as a kind of punishment from Inditex'. This is in response to the fact that, as Domínguez emphasises, 'we started the fight here to enforce demands that the company then had to extend to the rest of the country'. A 'punishment' that is now continuing with a tightening and a greater restriction of some of the labour rights from which Inditex employees in La Coruña have previously benefited. In the CIG's view, this is 'a further step in the process of centralising labour relations initiated by Inditex after the mobilisation of 2022, which led to a historic agreement on wage increases'. Cuts in the granting of permits and suspension of new recruitment measures to reinforce To illustrate how Inditex is allegedly deliberately cutting benefits and worsening working conditions for employees in the province of La Coruña, the CIG is initially referring to a number of measures that the company has already implemented. Inditex has announced that it will restrict the use of permits as much as possible in future and will take a particularly strict line with regard to the return of hours. According to the trade union, this has gone so far that the company management has openly announced that it will refuse permits that have never been rejected before and will significantly tighten the requirements for granting licences and other flexible working time measures. In addition, the company is refusing to hire new employees for the branches throughout the province of La Coruña. This decision means that the existing teams have to absorb the additional workload caused by absences due to illness or holiday periods. Protest by Inditex shop assistants in front of the Zara store on Juan Flórez street in La Coruña on May 9, 2025. Credits: CIG. 'The company has openly announced that it will restrict the use of permits and the return of hours as much as possible in future, including measures that have never been refused before,' the CIG stated during the rally. Inditex is also planning to significantly tighten the criteria for granting licences and other flexible working time arrangements that have been won through trade union struggles. The trade union criticised that the company is implementing a 'tightening of the access criteria to the rights enshrined in the agreements signed at provincial level' and is applying 'the most restrictive interpretation' of these agreements, with implications for 'the staff of all Inditex chains'. In parallel with these restrictions, according to the CIG, Inditex is continuing its previously announced policy of non-replacement in the province of La Coruña. This is justified by the fact that it is more expensive for the company to pay employees hired through temporary employment agencies the same conditions as permanent employees – a right that, the trade union emphasised, 'is explicitly guaranteed by current labour legislation'. This strategy of non-replacement is leading to a significant increase in the workload of existing teams and is also increasing the risks in the workplace. However, this is not only affecting employees, but also customers, who are increasingly finding shops where absences due to illness or holidays are no longer being compensated for. Protest by Inditex shop assistants in front of the Zara store on Juan Flórez street in La Coruña on May 9, 2025. Credits: CIG. Against the background of these worsening labour relations in La Coruña, the CIG warned that it would not accept either cuts in rights or non-compliance with existing provincial agreements. These agreements, according to the trade union, 'were hard-won by the employees of the Inditex branches'. Likewise, it would oppose 'the next round of collective bargaining being undermined in order to enforce a centralisation that – as has already been proven – will not bring any progress in improving our working conditions', emphasised Domínguez from the CIG. This article was translated to English using an AI tool. FashionUnited uses AI language tools to speed up translating (news) articles and proofread the translations to improve the end result. This saves our human journalists time they can spend doing research and writing original articles. Articles translated with the help of AI are checked and edited by a human desk editor prior to going online. 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Daily Mail
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
How High Street hero Zara got these 50 supermodels together: As LAURA CRAIK explains, it's thanks to the everywoman appeal of store celebrating 50 years today
When you're one of the world's top models, you don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day. That's what Linda Evangelista opined in her famous 1990 Vogue interview, a quote that would define the cultural phenomenon of the 'supermodel' and assert modelling as one of the few professions in which women could expect to earn much more than men. In today's money, this would mean Evangelista, who turns 60 tomorrow, wouldn't be rising from her Vispring mattress for less than $24,000 (£18,000). But when you're being photographed by Steven Meisel, one of the most legendary fashion photographers of the 20th century, the prestige is as important as the paycheck. Only Meisel could entice 50 of the world's most famous models out of their beds and into the studio for such an impressive group shot, with no AI trickery in sight. Which designer deity or lauded luxury label warranted this Herculean feat of commitment and organisation? Armani? Prada? Chanel? In fact, the reason Linda, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Twiggy, Eva Herzigova, Paulina Porizkova and Penelope Tree (to name just a few) were moved to clear their diaries and show up on time in the same New York studio is because of high street chain Zara. Not only show up at the same time and same place, but joyously dance and sing along to 1977 disco classic I Feel Love as Meisel captured the performance. Fashion photographer Steven Meisel brought together 50 of the world's most famous models for such an impressive group shot to celebrate Zara's 50th anniversary on the high street According to an insider on the shoot, Oldham-born model Karen Elson, 46, belted out the Donna Summer song as Victoria's Secret model Irina Shayk, 39, vigorously shimmied along. British shoppers first encountered the Spanish brand in 1998, when it opened its first UK store on London's Regent Street. So it may come as a surprise that everyone's favourite purveyor of affordable catwalk trends, viral dresses and reasonably priced office attire celebrates its 50th anniversary today. It was on May 9, 1975, that businessman Amancio Ortega opened the first Zara store in A Coruna, in Galicia, Spain. Zara boasts 5,815 stores in 98 countries, as well as serving 214 markets online. Now 89, Ortega is the second richest retailer in the world and the tenth richest person, with an estimated net worth of $121 billion (£91 billion), says Forbes. Ortega's daughter, Marta Ortega Perez, 41, has marked the occasion with a film, shot by Meisel, featuring the 50 iconic models wearing items from Zara's new collection. Staples include an elegant black tuxedo jacket (£139), a classic white shirt (£45.99), a simple vest top (£17.99) and a raft of trousers (from £39) that will work for the office and beyond. Everything comes in chic, monochromatic shades to ensure maximum wearability, which is really what Zara has focused on all along. Linda Evangelista (pictured here on the Milan catwalk for Versace in 1995) once said in a famous Vogue interview that as a supermodel you don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day Also featured in the shoot, a who's who of the modeling A-list of the last 40 years, was Oldham-born model Karen Elson, 46 (pictured) Peek inside the average woman's wardrobe and there's likely to be a disproportionate number of Zara items hanging there. Yes, British women loved Topshop, but Zara has functioned as its more grown-up, exotic European cousin. Throughout the early Noughties, its main draw was that it produced catwalk-inspired pieces for fashion lovers who couldn't afford high fashion's price tags. Finding a dead ringer for a Celine coat for £79 and announcing 'it's Zara' became a badge of honour; a purchase that marked you out as a savvy shopper with a keen eye. With the price of luxury labels now hiked higher than ever, Zara's original mandate still holds true, and shoppers still go there to furnish their wardrobes with items whose designer equivalents now cost the price of a used car (and, in some cases, a new one). But while Zara might still be inspired by catwalk trends, it also spawns its own. Who can forget 'The Dress' of summer 2019, a £39.99 black and white polkadot creation so popular that it garnered its own Instagram account? On TikTok, meanwhile, Zara is riding high among a new generation of shoppers for whom catwalk trends are of far less interest than what their peers are wearing. For Gen Z, this season's viral hits include a pair of brown chiffon sequin trousers (£39.99) and a sleeveless tie-front top (£22.99). Although Gen Z's real obsession is with Zara perfumes. On any given morning, parents of teenage girls may find themselves overly acquainted with the scent of Fashionably London and Red Temptation (£22.99). Naomi Campbell was among the modelling royalty who featured in Zara's star-studded anniversary photoshoot Iconic British model Dame Lesley Lawson AKA Twiggy was another familiar face on the wall of icons Zara certainly isn't perfect. It's hard to argue that you aren't a key part of the fast fashion epidemic when you're producing an estimated 20,000 new styles every year; a total of about 450 million garments. But Marta Ortega Perez, the non-executive chair of the brand's parent company Inditex, insists Zara is placed outside the fast fashion sphere because of its focus on quality, sustainability and responsible manufacturing. It's for the customer to decide whether Zara is worthy of their custom. For its devoted fans, collaborations with Kate Moss and perfumier Jo Malone have proved impossible to resist. Now, they have the added spectacle of 50 supermodels donning their latest collection. For Twiggy, 75, in particular, it was a full-circle moment. After waiting all night for her to exit a New York club in her 1960s heyday, Meisel first shot the legendary British model, who is five years his senior, when he was a mere 13 years old. As the man who launched many of their careers, Meisel was the ideal photographer to capture the moment. And, while its models might not wake up for less than $10,000, Zaraphiles will happily set their alarms to bag these new pieces.
Vogue
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
How Will Zara Mark 50? With Models and a Disco Classic
A behind-the-scenes moment from '50 Years, 50 Icons.' Photo: Courtesy of Marc Regas / Zara Fresh off a string of buzzy collaborations, Zara is pulling out all the stops to mark its first 50 years in business. At the center of the celebrations is an epic video, '50 Years, 50 Icons,' by Steven Meisel, which will be released on May 9, 2025—50 years to the day from when Amancio Ortega opened the first Zara store in A Coruña, in Galicia, Spain. By 2011, with the establishment of an outpost in Australia, the company had a brick-and-mortar presence on five continents. '50 Years, 50 Icons,' by Steven Meisel. Styled by Karl Templer. Makeup, Pat McGrath; hair, Guido Palau. Art direction by Jason Duzansky. Casting by Piergiorgio Del Moro. Also representing many regions of the globe are the models in the video. The gathering of so many superstars in one place feels important, even historic. Perhaps only Steven Meisel, who has long championed models and has a photographic memory of fashion, could have pulled it off. 'There's nobody who could do this the way that Steven does,' said Christy Turlington Burns on a call. 'I've been involved in a few different special kinds of cover groupings, small and large, but I think this was probably the biggest that has ever happened. We didn't know the full casting until we were there, so you just kept turning a corner and seeing somebody else.' 'I just knew it would be like a class reunion, while at the same time I'd be meeting some people for the first time,' added Linda Evangelista, who recently starred in the campaign for Meisel's Zara capsule. 'You just wanted to be with everybody and get in as much as you could.' Shot in black-and-white, the models move and sing along to Donna Summer's 1977 disco classic 'I Feel Love.' 'I had a good chuckle when I received the lyrics to the song,' said Evangelista. 'I listened to that song a thousand times on full blast dancing in my basement. For me, it was such a good memory. I remember my cousin Helen came to visit from New York and she had great hair, like '80s hair, that I then emulated—and the way she was dressed. And she introduced me to Donna Summer and gave me the albums.'
