New Yorker, and she won’t come out of her self-imposed NYFW quarantine for just anyone. But a front-row seat to thestar to Chelsea yesterday afternoon. Mr. Kors, of course, brought Zegler as his date to the 2021 CFDA Awards, where they bonded over their shared admiration for one another and Kors’ love of musical theater. At yesterday’s presentation, a procession of timeless classics, their love affair continued.
These slip dresses with fur, it was just so beautiful,” Zegler told Dara, our fashion director, after the show. “To me, that’s the energy we should be bringing into 2024.”RACHEL ZEGLER: I love this. I just got back home. I’m going to go see Josh on set in a second. DARA: Fresh off the runway. Your look was giving “yes, and?” and I’m obsessed. How are you feeling about “yes, and?”
ZEGLER: I love it so much. I’m here for it because it’s giving me the time when I was desperate for human connection during COVID andstory actually, because when “Rain on Me” dropped and the music video came out, there’s that last third of the video when they’re dancing together and there’s this shot that switches between the two of them. I thought their faces were morphing together because I hadn’t seen anyone in months. So I was losing it. I burst into tears.
ZEGLER: That is bad. But you would’ve never known when I saw you. The face was fresh. The outfit was good.ZEGLER: So, Michael took me to the CFDAs as his date in 2021.ZEGLER: I got in the car and he was in the backseat, which is crazy to me. We were talking about how I wanted to be a fashion designer when I was a kid because I watched him and Nina Garcia onwhen it was airing and I was like, “I want to do that so bad.