STYLE Edit: Who is Zumi Rosow, the Gucci muse who inspired the Gucci Zumi bag?
Actresses Ni Ni and Saoirse Ronan have both been spotted wearing Gucci Zumi bags
Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele gave us vintage eccentricity and youthful spirit in his 2019 spring-summer collection, most notably with the debut of the Gucci Zumi bag.
The collection was a tribute to Paris, where the Italian fashion house moved its ready-to-wear show to a nightclub in the Montmartre district of the city.
The Zumi Bag is named after Zumi Rosow, a Los Angeles-based actress and experimental musician. Rosow, who plays the saxophone in the Atlanta-based garage rock band Black Lips, may not seem like a typical sartorial muse. But Alessandro Michele is no typical designer.
Rosow had that Gucci look as she walked with her namesake accessory on the runway during the October show.
The Zumi bag is not as unconventional. The monogram hardware is actually a historical house motif that Michele uncovered in the Gucci archives. It features the familiar interlocking double-G with the classic metal horse bit.
The horse bit design is a classic piece of Gucci’s leather and saddle-making history, memorably seen on their iconic horsebit loafers.