Zac Posen designs for women with “bodies”.
The fashion designer loves women of all shapes and sizes. His work is influenced by growing up in lower Manhattan surrounded by real women.
“I design for women with bodies, first of all,” he told The Huffington Post.
“From being raised, since I was 21, on the road in America with the American women, [I know that] women have bodies. Women have hips and they have all different shapes. So I try to embrace that. I often think fashion tries to hide that or tries not to realise that, and I am totally about women feeling good about their bodies and embracing it. That’s hugely important to me.”
Zac has debuted his new capsule collection Z Spoke Zac Posen for Lord and Taylor. He designed seven different styles exclusively for the department store.
“If you strip it all – from collection to Z Spoke to the [Lord & Taylor] capsule collection – if you strip all of it down, the essence of what I can give to the woman best is great cut and great construction and playing with incredible seeming,” he said.
“So, in those seven styles I wanted to just have well cut clothing that had interesting construction that either supported or enhanced the body. And also, would look good on a [US] size 0 to 16.” - © Cover Media