If Ronan McKenzie called her spring 2027 collection for Selasi “Going Places,” this week it did just that when Law Roach enlisted the designer to provide clothes for Zendaya. (The image architect has been keeping himself pretty busy with his other very famous client, Kim Kardashian.)
Earlier this week, Zendaya appeared alongside her co-star Timothée Chalamet in a promotional video for Dune: Part Three, wearing look three from the show: a sleeveless halter-neck top and barrel-legged trousers in sandy shades of suede evocative of the movie’s desert landscape.
Photo: courtesy of Law Roach
It’s always a thrill to see how far a collection can travel beyond the runway, particularly when it comes from a label with relatively modest resources. This was only McKenzie’s second runway presentation since joining the London Fashion Week schedule, staged in a mechanic’s garage and modeled by the designer’s inner circle, among them her mum, British Vogue contributing editor Zezi Ifore and entrepreneur Charlene Prempeh.
“Their presence underscored a central idea behind the collection: these clothes are intended to live beyond the runway,” read the show notes. “Going Places is grounded in pieces that can move through different bodies, ages, and lives.” Another headline-making moment from Selasi’s recent runways was the rediscovery of 59-year-old model Evelyn Effrim-Botchey, who has since gone on to make waves on Paris’s most rarefied catwalks.
