Willy Chavarria’s collaboration with Zara is right here

‘I wish to attain extra individuals,’ the American designer Willy Chavarria advised Wallpaper* in July of final yr, having moved his runway exhibits from New York to Paris. ‘It’s about having a worldwide message – a message of humanity that’s about individuals in all international locations.’

A brand new collaboration with Zara, launched right now (26 March 2026 – store the appears under), brings his message to a good wider viewers. Comprising menswear and womenswear, in addition to luggage, footwear and equipment, the expansive assortment is rooted in Chavarria’s distinctive aesthetic – one which pulls on the costume codes of America’s immigrant communities, his Mexican-American upbringing in Fresno, California, and the road type of New York, Chavarria’s adopted dwelling metropolis.

Willy Chavarria’s collaboration with Zara is right here

‘My workforce and I method each assortment from a perspective of reacting to the political local weather. The dialog is at all times: How does the world really feel? What’s taking place? How ought to we reply to it?’ he beforehand advised Wallpaper*. ‘We’re nonetheless so caught within the previous guard of vogue – these individuals have been doing it for thus lengthy that they will’t see outdoors of their sphere.’

The Zara assortment, which is the most recent in an extended line of high-profile collaborations that the Spanish vogue behemoth has undertaken in recent times, is titled ‘Vatísimo’, and mines comparable themes. Taken from a colloquial expression used throughout the Chicano group, it’s the superlative of ‘vato’, which suggests ‘mates, companions, homies, and family members’, as Chavarria explains. ‘[It’s about] friendship, camaraderie, and love; it speaks to non-public bonds, the satisfaction of belonging to a group, and the ability of roots.’

A biggest hits of kinds, the gathering returns to Chavarria’s perennial influences – specifically sports- and workwear, in addition to Fifties-inflected tailoring – reimagined in ample silhouettes and with romantic thrives (an embroidered rose motif options all through). For males, there may be roomy, double-breasted tailoring, sized-up work shirts in fluid cupro, alongside riffs on sportier apparel – from hoodies to polo-shirts, outsized T-shirts and boxer shorts (memorably, Chavarria launched an underwear line, ‘Soiled Willy Underwear’, the place items had the looks of being ‘worn in’).

For ladies, pussy-bow shirts are adorned with daring floral motifs, whereas denim and tailoring echo the lads’s assortment’s use of quantity. A collection of Eighties-style jewelry, in addition to bandanas, slouchy leather-based purses and clogs, sit alongside.

The launch is accompanied by a marketing campaign movie directed by Glen Luchford and Chavarria, wherein Christy Turlington and Alberto Guerra star in a telenovela-style brief, ‘unfolding a deadly love quadrangle formed by energy, jealousy, and want’ that includes a cameo from Chavarria himself.