Zac Posen, Executive Vice President of Gap Inc. and Chief Creative Officer of Old Navy tapped his contemporary from the design work, aughts edition, Joseph Altuzarra for a collaboration with the little sister of the Gap. The 57-piece collection spans women’s and girl’s assortments, ranging from outerwear to accessories in three distinct color stories.
The face of the campaign is Alexa Chung, which begs the question. Altuzarra and Alexa Chung: have we returned to 2009?
fibers
The fabrics are…not great. Synthetic fabric central. Spandex, viscose rayon, nylon, polyester, recycled polyester, and more polyester. All highly flammable.
The only item one hundred percent cotton is an outlier in terms of price.
sizes
The women’s styles are available in number sizes 0 through 24 and XS through 4X. There is one dress available in both petite and tall length, so points there. Unfortunately, it falls into the polyester variety.
price points
The price points of the collection range from 25 dollars for a scarf or a camisole to 145 dollars for a cotton two-in-one parka.
Note that the collection is excluded from the current site (cough) wide thirty percent off promotion. #exclusionsapply
cavaet
These pieces can only be returned online. Conversely, I get the sense that they are only available online.
the verdict
This is not the first high low collaboration for Altuzarra. Show of hands, who remembers when he had a collection with Target? J.Crew? Larroude?
I will not be purchasing from the collection. The only item I would be interested in is the cotton parka but again, this was not included in the tall assortment.
