Zac Posen

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Portrait by Glen Luchford

pictures by GLEN LUCHFORD
featuring PARKER POSEY
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM

 

Perhaps the most precocious and flamboyant designer of the downtown Manhattan scene, ZAC POSEN is a truly an American success story. He’s talented, charming, hard-working but easy-going, and totally committed to fashion. What’s the secret of his success? His glamour, his energy, his social cachet? Perhaps it’s that fashion is his religion, and his charismatic aura draws the fashion faithful toward him.

OLIVIER ZAHM — What a nice, well-organized office you have. How many people work with you?
ZAC POSEN — About 70. We’ve been in business for about seven years now. It developed organically. I started it up in my parent’s living room when I came back from St. Martin’s in London. I just started making the clothing I wanted to make — very wild and exciting…