In vogue, the one factor people love greater than a debut is a comeback. The spring 2024 season’s most anticipated premiere is undoubtedly that of Sabato de Sarno at Gucci, who can be unveiling his first assortment for the home on Friday, September 22 in Milan. This morning, by the use of an Instagram post on his private account, he teased his highly-awaited present with a face from the previous.
“No matter occurred to Daria?” Is a question you’ll typically hear amongst fashionphiles in regards to the beloved mannequin Daria Werbowy, who exploded into the scene within the aughts and retired simply as swiftly in 2016. Right now, de Sarno revealed Werbowy because the face of his first marketing campaign as inventive director of Gucci in a picture photographed in Los Angeles by David Sims and styled by Alastair McKimm, marking Werbowy’s return to modeling after seven years away.
Followers will do not forget that Werbowy was often known as Phoebe Philo’s muse (and doppelgänger), and rumors of the mannequin’s impending return have been pegged to Philo’s personal for months. The designer introduced the launch of her eponymous line in 2021, and opened her web site for registration final month as anticipation for her first assortment, to be launched this September, continues to rise. However earlier than her Philo years, Werbowy dominated the runways and fronted a number of campaigns and journal covers, her face changing into paradigmatic of an period in vogue.
The Canadian-Ukrainian mannequin, as de Sarno writes in his Instagram submit, debuted in 2003 (for the autumn 2003 season). That was De Sarno’s first season within the enterprise, too, as he started his profession at Prada as an assistant. “Daria, we began collectively on this enterprise in 2003, and right here you might be with me at the start of this new journey,” he wrote. True Werbowy believers may also do not forget that her first main marketing campaign was Prada’s for the fall 2003 season, photographed by Steven Meisel. One other factor vogue fanatics love? A decades-sprawling designer-model love story.
