Zara announced its latest collaboration on April 13, 2026, the designer behind it is not a fashion school graduate or a seasoned creative director. It is Dylan, a 12 year old British born, Los Angeles based kid who started drawing on T-shirts at his kitchen table at the age of six, and somehow ended up dressing Pharrell Williams, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brie Larson, and Elle Fanning along the way.
The Dylan’s T Shirt Club x Zara collection launched this week, bringing a range of hand drawn, pop culture soaked graphic tees to one of the world’s largest fast fashion retailers for the first time.
The Kid Who Dressed Hollywood First
Dylan‘s story began in 2019, when his grandmother handed him a set of markers and a stack of plain tees. What followed was an obsessive, entirely self directed creative practice: individually numbered, hand drawn, and personally customized T-shirts featuring bold characters,…
gnomes on skateboards, extravagant faces, and vibrant colour combinations unlike anything in mainstream fashion. By the time he turned 11, he had created over 300 T-shirts, each cataloged on his website with the name of its recipient.
His work had been worn on The Late Late Show with James Corden and Hot Ones, and Elle Fanning famously wore a Dylan original to the Cannes Film Festival, paired with wide leg jeans in a look that sparked a wave of press coverage.
Owners of his originals include Tom Morello, John David Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Josh Brolin, A$AP Ferg, Denzel Curry, Nicolas Ghesquière, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
What the Zara Collection Looks Like The Dylan’s T-Shirt Club x Zara drop is built around licensed pop culture imagery reimagined through Dylan‘s signature hand drawn lens…
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