{"id":308215,"date":"2026-02-24T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/308215\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:44:10","slug":"pieter-mulier-selects-steven-meisel-to-shoot-his-final-alaia-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/308215\/","title":{"rendered":"Pieter Mulier Selects Steven Meisel to Shoot His Final Ala\u00efa Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLAST DANCE: Before <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/tag\/pieter-mulier\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pieter-mulier\" data-tag=\"pieter-mulier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pieter Mulier<\/a>\u2018s swan song as creative director of Ala\u00efa comes his final <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/tag\/campaign-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_campaign-2\" data-tag=\"campaign-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">campaign<\/a> for the Paris-based house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tReleased Tuesday, it features five up-and-coming models lensed by Steven Meisel and continues \u201ca tradition of collaboration with photography\u2019s most pre-eminent talents, initiated by <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/tag\/azzedine-alaia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_azzedine-alaia\" data-tag=\"azzedine-alaia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Azzedine Ala\u00efa<\/a> and carried forward today by <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/designer-luxury\/pieter-mulier-exits-alaia-becomes-versace-new-designer-1238532017\/\" id=\"related_article_link_pieter-mulier\" data-tag=\"pieter-mulier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pieter Mulier<\/a>,\u201d the house said in a statement shared first with WWD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/fashion-features\/azzedine-alaia-dies-in-paris-11053101\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11053101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">late Tunisian couturier <\/a>famously worked with the likes of Peter Lindbergh and Arthur Elgort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDescribing Meisel as \u201camong <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/eye\/people\/fashions-busiest-photographers-10679667\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"10679667\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the most influential image-makers <\/a>in the history of fashion,\u201d Ala\u00efa said the American photographer echoes the reduced, sculptural quality of Mulier\u2019s winter-spring collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIts simplicity and frontal quality introduce an intentional radicality. No noise, just beauty,\u201d according to the house. \u201cThe purity of the setting, the absence of ornament, and the deliberate repetition of a single composition place the body and the garments at the centre of the image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/designer-luxury\/givenchy-spring-2026-campaign-annie-leibovitz-kaia-gerber-1238614188\/\" id=\"related_article_link_campaign-2\" data-tag=\"campaign-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">campaign<\/a> will be visible from Tuesday at Milan newsstands, and will also appear on billboards and kiosks throughout Paris Fashion Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThere is also a campaign film with the same soundtrack as the show, by Gustave Rudman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMulier is to wrap an eventful and acclaimed five-year tenure at the Ala\u00efa after his summer-fall show <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/fashion-news\/designer-luxury\/versace-pieter-mulier-chief-creative-officer-lorenzo-bertelli-1238515160\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1238515160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and join Versace in Milan <\/a>on July 1, as reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe affable Belgian designer started his fashion career working at the Raf Simons men\u2019s label in Antwerp, later working under Simons at Jil Sander, Calvin Klein and Dior.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-wwd-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ALAIA-WS26-1-NO-LOGO.jpg\" alt=\"ALA\u00cfA Winter Spring 2026 Campaign\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"819\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSteven Meisel \/ Courtesy of ALA\u00cfA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST DANCE: Before Pieter Mulier\u2018s swan song as creative director of Ala\u00efa comes his final campaign for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[154809,6742,146,85,46,73967,33031],"class_list":["post-308215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-azzedine-alau00efa","tag-campaign","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-pieter-mulier","tag-versace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}