How Zac Posen Reinvented Gap

The Run-Through with Vogue

Vogue

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.2 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Joining Nicole Phelps on this week’s episode of The Run-Through is the American designer Zac Posen, who at only 44 years old has lived many lifetimes in fashion. In February last year, Posen was announced as the new Chief Creative Officer at Old Navy and Creative Director at Gap, where he is also launching Gap Studio, a special collection. Listen to this week’s conversation to learn more about what Posen’s learned in the industry so far and his vision for the future.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Runthrough is brought to you by eBay.
0:03.6	eBay, it's the place to fall in love with new, pre-loved, vintage, and rare fashion over and over again.
0:09.8	Your favorite designers, expertly authenticated.
0:12.9	Yes, eBay, things people love.
0:35.8	This is The Run Through. I'm Nicole Phelps. Today on the show, I'm joined by Zach Posen, a designer I've known for 20 years. He has a huge new job at Gap Inc, which was invented for him by the company's CEO.
0:39.4	Zach is involved in almost every aspect of the company,
0:41.8	from design and retail to advertising,
0:43.6	across its many brands.
0:47.4	They include Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, and Athleta.
0:50.3	He's also designing a collection called Gap Studio,
0:52.5	which is arriving in stores in March.
0:56.2	Zach joined us in studio in New York City to talk about his big new job, about AI and technology as well as nostalgia. So here's my conversation
1:02.5	with Zach Bozen. Welcome to Vogue's run-through podcast. Thank you for being here, Zach.
1:10.6	Thank you for having me, Nicole.
1:12.0	We published a great article about you and what you're doing at Gap last month,
1:16.0	and we are here to dig in to everything you're doing there.
1:20.6	What an incredible moment to be meeting.
1:25.0	We, just for people listening, Nicole and I have a very, very long history
1:31.3	as a reviewer and as an editor and as a designer, which is very rare. I think, you know, we even
1:38.5	start almost just at the beginning of digital and even pre-digital when there was a different kind of editorial system.
1:46.6	And I really feel grateful that I have somebody in the industry that I have grown with in that way
1:55.1	and have that rapport with my work from having runways to just show rooms and all the different iterations in
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