Gigi first sported the merino wool coat, which features a quartet of bar stripes on the left sleeve, to celebrate a friend’s birthday in Manhattan at the beginning of 2019, pairing it with quirky newspaper-print trousers by Miaou, lug-soled DKNY sneakers, and Prada’s cream and black Sidonie bag at the time. For her latest outing in downtown Manhattan with three-month-old baby Zigi, the 25-year-old bundled up in Thom Browne’s floor-sweeping camel Chesterfield coat, its down-filled layers offering some much-needed protection from the frigid East Coat temperatures (a marked contrast with the equally stylish but distinctly less weather-appropriate Jeff Hamilton leather jacket worn by sister Bella during the city’s recent blizzard). I discovered me and no one else should have to carry that burden or do that favour for me.Another day, another lesson in stroller chic from Gigi Hadid. I thought, ‘I have to discover myself, I have to be my own biggest champion and my own saviour in that respect. “If I’d waited for someone to discover me, it may never have happened. That’s the power of taking a chance, in believing in it and not giving up and being determined and tenacious, coupled with having talent – all those things together,” he says. “When you try to make sense of it, my whole life journey is so illogical and so far-fetched, it shouldn’t add up. They’ve been to pretty much everything he’s done since. “They thought this is kinda getting serious,” he remembers. His mum and sister came to his third show in Paris (the critically acclaimed White collection, famously worn by Björk). Scott quickly became one of the most-talked-about names in Paris and counted Isabella Blow and Karl Lagerfeld as fans. It’s just innate to me to express myself through clothes.”īy 1997, he had made influential friends on the fashion and club scenes and launched his own label. This is how I feel happy, this is how I feel good, and it shouldn’t be a controversy. I never thought they would break me or that I would finally give in and do what they wanted. “That part was difficult, but it was just so fundamentally important for me to express myself through fashion that it overrode what anyone did or said. This made him a target for bullies, but, says Scott, when his mother sought support for her son from his school, she was told, “‘Well, if he would just dress like everybody else, this wouldn’t happen.’ They insinuated that it was my fault for not fitting into their mould,” says Scott. “I’d crop jackets, change elements, add parts and make things custom,” he says. “From my earliest memories of picking my own clothes, I had an opinion about what I wanted to wear and how I wanted to wear it.” By his early teens, the fledgling designer was seeking out vintage clothes and altering them to suit his own ideas. I think in those terms.”Īs far back as he can remember, Scott used fashion as a form of self-expression. It could become something else or have another life or be imagined another way, and that part is fundamental to the way my brain processes what my eyes see. “I feel strongly that my imagination was fuelled by this idea that you can see something, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s what it is.

I would constantly see things transform.” It wired his brain differently.

“My grandmother would take the plastic bags that bread would come in and crochet them into a rug or a jump rope. He grew up watching his relatives on the farm crafting and repurposing the things around them. Instead of having a normal toy, here’s a dilapidated car and it’s going to become a rocket ship in your imagination,” says the designer. You would take something and turn it into something else. Instead he was nurtured with a combination of imagination and resourcefulness, two things that would prove far more valuable in later life than any shop-bought delight. He didn’t have the latest games console, or even the latest Gap hoodie. It’s a safe place where you feel nurtured and loved and supported and, really, you can be yourself without question.” He grew up on a farm in Missouri. Reflecting on the Avalons’ tight community and his own upbringing, Scott says, “Family means love.

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