Zayn is on the cover of the newest edition of “Interview Magazine” Germany. You can check the photo below:

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It may be the first day of fashion week but Zayn in a Tommy cricket jumper on the cover of Elle India is what the fashion world is really buzzing about. It’s the first time we’re seeing the international popstar on the cover of an Indian magazine and honestly we can’t help think he just fits. It could be the Urdu origin name, the international looks or the fact that it’s Zayn. Though the looks do have a part to play…

“I kept the mood true to his rock ‘n’ roll personality and the choice of clothes was a mix of bomber jackets, denim, sharp suits and lots of prints and textures.” Rahul Vijay, Elle’s Fashion Editor says about the shoot. “I hadn’t heard his music before and I just knew of him as a popstar who was dating Gigi Hadid. I would play his tracks in preparation for the shoot while doing call-ins. The white cricket sweater from Hilfiger Collection with the neck adjusted to show off his tattoos seemed like an appropriate cover image. It’s rock’n’roll – preppy.”

Over lunch- which was a plate of chicken wings for Zayn- the former boy band singer was shocked to find out how popular he is in India. “He loves Indian food and claims his mom makes the best Indian food around.” No prizes for guessing who his favourite Bollywood actor is. “He loves Shah Rukh Khan, he’s even made Gigi watch Devdas, which is one of his favourites.”

Zayn did seven shots in about 3-4 hours with Manhattan as his backdrop from the iconic Lotte New York Palace Hotel. “He’s what a star his age should be: humble, calm and very easy to work with. He doesn’t like to smile in pictures, but that’s fashion so it works.” With that jawline we don’t blame him for not wanting to disrupt it.

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After the overwhelming success of his debut solo album, all eyes are on VMAN38 cover star Zayn Malik as he readies to release his follow-up. If you think the attention might have gotten to him, think again: music’s most in-demand superstar may also be its most humble.

Over the week leading up to my interview with the elusive Zayn Malik, much of my time is spent reading up on the endless list of articles that paint him as the bad boy who broke millions of teenage hearts after leaving One Direction. While it would be a much easier story to tell you that Zayn fulfilled every post-Destiny’s Child Beyoncé, rogue boy bander stereotype imaginable, that wouldn’t be honest. The truth is that Zayn Malik is not a “bad boy” at all. In fact, he might be the furthest thing from it.

When we connect, it hardly registers that the person I’m speaking with is a celebrity—let alone one that has accrued 23 million Instagram followers, over one billion streams on his critically acclaimed debut album, an estimated net worth of $45 million, and the world’s most in-demand supermodel as a girlfriend. (Not to mention that his name literally translates to “beautiful king.”) He speaks with ease, offering the types of down-to-earth insight that I would hardly expect from someone who has been known to cancel arena-size shows due to anxiety. When we converse, I begin to understand that this is because I’m not speaking to Zayn, the ultra-famous boy who left One Direction—a fictionalized character and narrative that’s as publically manufactured as the now-dismantled band itself—but rather Zayn, the artist and individual.

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Midway through Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando, a startling transformation takes place: Our hero, Duke Orlando, awakens from a seven-day slumber to find that he has switched genders. “Orlando had become a woman,” Woolf writes, “but in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity.”

He becomes they. The pronouns shift, but the person remains the same. Woolf’s words, written in 1928, could easily be mistaken for a manifesto posted yesterday on Tumblr, the preferred platform for the growing cohort of “fluid” young people who, like Orlando, breezily crisscross the XX/XY divide. Fashion, of course, has taken note of the movement, which is sufficiently evolved to boast its own pinups, including Jaden Smith, recently the star of a Louis Vuitton womenswear campaign, and androgynous Chinese pop star (and Riccardo Tisci muse) Chris Lee. But where, exactly, is someone neither entirely he nor she meant to shop? And how, exactly, is such a person to be defined?

“They don’t want to be defined,” says Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, one of the many designers taking inspiration from the trend. “You see boys wearing makeup, girls buying menswear—they are not afraid to be who they are. This category or that category—who cares? They want to define themselves.”

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As announced earlier today, ZAYN (AKA Zayn Malik) is the fourth and final cover star of the latest issue of Clash. Though currently available to order (here, in case you were wondering), the magazine won’t hit stores until next week, but rather than keep you waiting with just a steamy cover pic for company, Clash is treating you to a teaser extract from the cover story itself.

Speaking with Clash’s Editor-In-Chief, conversation largely focused on the further development of ZAYN as a solo artist as he continues to redefine himself following his liberation from the creatively stifling conditions of One Direction. We find him in New York where he’s wrapping up his second album, mindful of the commercial and critical success of its predecessor – 2016’s sex-dominated ‘Mind Of Mine’ – and considering the progress he’s made since.

Talk turns to the work/life balance, chilling with his girlfriend, his recent collaboration with Versace and his new life in LA… But all of that is yet to come – be patient! In the meantime, here is a sneak peek at a little of what you can expect…

You’ve spoken before about how you feel like your evolution as a songwriter only really began to develop after leaving the band. How do you think you’ve changed in the space of time between your debut album and this new one?

Even though it has been a short space of time, I think you can definitely be able to see a progression in my writing – well, I’m hoping so, anyway. But I feel that way when I listen to it: I feel like there’s definitely a bit more organisation with things, if that’s the way to explain it. Things kind of make a bit more sense to me. I feel like on the first record things were a bit experimental – I was just trying to find my feet – and with this one, I feel like I’ve found that pocket a little bit more and it’s a bit more developed. I’m just a bit more organised and a bit more structured with the way I’m songwriting now, I think.

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Zayn’s brand new collection with Versus Versace called Zayn x Versus has officially arrived!

The 24-year-old singer enlisted some help from his girlfriend Gigi Hadid’s sister Bella to model the women’s pieces from the fashion line.

“When I was a kid growing up in Bradford, England, wearing knock-off Versace, I never thought that one day I would actually be designing my own collection”, Zayn said in a statement. “Thanks so much to Donatella Versace for allowing me to do the coolest thing ever”.

The collection debuts today (June 19) at versusversace.com and on in-store on June 28th following a launch event in the New York boutique with a percentage of the net profits donated to charity.

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Zayn has been announced as the latest cover star of The Sunday Times Style supplement.

Due for publication on Sunday 19 March, the newspaper shared a photo from their photoshoot with Malik looking as cool as ever, on their Instagram on Wednesday 15 March.

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