Kate Moss back with second Zara collab, adds men’s with Bobby Gillespie designing

Following on from a sellout collab for AW24, supermodel Kate Moss and Inditex’s mega-successful fashion brand Zara have been working together again on a second collection for SS25.

We’re told the new collection was designed by Moss with long-term collaborator, stylist Katy England. And given the timing, it’s no surprise that it’s a “festival-ready, considered collection of Kate classics”.

Importantly too, there’s a menswear offer included this time, “overseen by Kate’s long-term friend and Katy’s husband, iconoclastic Primal Scream frontman, Bobby Gillespie, making his fashion design debut”.

It’s an overall offer with a strong retro influence, Zara saying that Moss, England and Gillespie “went back to the archive and began selecting pieces on which to base their new collection”. 

And Moss added: “Nothing matches the feeling of finding a one-off Piece. Just wow. The piece that only you own.” 

Of course in this case it’s not about exclusivity but in what Zara said is “an egalitarian act of sharing, she has remodelled a selection of some of her absolute favourite pieces, plucked from her years of scurrilous fashion detective work, from the thrift stores of small-town America to the most elegant boutiques of Paris and Milan, as centrepieces of the new collection”.

The results will be available online and in over 120 Zara stores worldwide from June 9. They include a “fringed bikini that doubles as festival wear; a leather bra in beautifully worn fabric; go-go boots redesigned from a one-off find two decades ago; a silk cream suit fit that feels ready to go as the ultimate rock star bridal moment”.

Moss also explained that while she expected a summer festival collection to “be more about wafty dresses… it’s a bit tougher than that. That’s because all the masculine energy was coming in from Bobby doing his collection at the same time. You could feel it coming over and we ended up going somewhere quite unexpected that I didn’t think we would.” 

Meanwhile the campaign has been shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.