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Rewind to November 2023 when Emily Kirkpatrick of the I <3 Mess Substack identified that Bradley Cooper had been “totally Gigi-fied” since he and Ms. Hadid were reported to have started dating–meaning the actor had abandoned his typical dog walking jackets and jeans for a naïve, craft-table aesthetic closer aligned to the model’s: star-spangled camo pants, chubby beanies, striped rugbies.
School of Style
The same could perhaps now be said for Zendaya, who arrived at the Los Angeles headquarters of Law Roach’s School of Style–an online styling course that appointed the image architect as its professor in late 2024–to serve as an instructional aid for students. The actress was styled in a cashmere polo from Hadid’s brand, Guest in Residence, with coordinating oatmeal slacks, while having swapped out her signature red-bottomed So Kates for a pair of Olsen-made, square-toed ballerinas in an oxblood calfskin. (The pop of red is not yet dead.)
A small selection of those five-inch Christian Louboutins loomed from a shoe rack in the background–just a handful of the more than 40 fresh pairs the duo are said to have in permanent reserve. “You will not take these shoes off,” Roach said on Recho Omondi’s The Cutting Floor podcast, recalling the first time he sent the 14-year-old actress hobbling across red carpets in the 120mm-high heels. “She kept them on, and the next day she put them on again, and the next day she put them on again.” More than a decade on, the So Kates have become such a fixture in Zendaya’s wardrobe that even her employers, Louis Vuitton and Valentino, have been taught to expect no less. Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.
