Since launching his first collection in 2021, Zac Posen has won multiple CFDA Awards, dressed an endless list of celebrities, and served as a judge on Project Runway. His creative pursuits include a published cookbook and designing uniforms for Delta agents. Thus, when news of Posen’s eponymous label closing broke in 2019, fans and industry insiders alike knew it was only a matter of time before his talent would reemerge. That time has come.
Having been named the creative director of Gap Inc. and chief creative officer of Old Navy in February 2024, Posen now splits his time between New York City and San Francisco, where Gap is headquartered. A typical morning in the Bay Area includes a FaceTime to Posen’s fiancé, Harrison Ball, while the designer walks to work.
“You have lipstick on?” Ball asks his husband-to-be the day Vogue spends with Posen. “It’s chapstick,” Posen responds with a laugh. After saying hello to his dogs, Posen ends the call and proceeds to pick up egg tarts from his neighborhood bakery (enough to share with colleagues, of course.)
“This is where the magic happens,” Posen says upon entering the Gap offices. A 10 a.m. meeting is followed by visits to the Gap Creative office and Old Navy showroom. While reviewing Banana Republic designs, the idea strikes Posen to create carved, cameo-like wood buttons for a pair of pants—perhaps featuring animal silhouettes. “Collaboration is everything in life,” he says is his approach to work, “making decisions, owning them, and trust.”
Before the day is over, Posen offers a glimpse of a Gap look Demi Moore is wearing to an event the two are heading to that night: a cropped coated denim moto jacket and a T-shirt tank gown. With Posen at the helm, there’re much more where that came from.
Here, watch Day in the Life with Zac Posen.
Director: Nina Ljeti
Director of Photography: Drew Kass
Editor: Evan Allan
Senior Producer: Bety Dereje
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Assistant Camera: Anthony Rosario
Audio: Michael Clifford
Production Assistants: Anna Cadena, Tiger Brown
Groomer: Christina Flach
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Video: Romy van den Broeke
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