The male model equivalent of the duel, as Zoolander taught us, is the walk-off. In the film, the late, great David Bowie, who officiated, explains the rules: “First model walks, second model duplicates, then elaborates.”
Vogue’s OTT Zoolander 2–themed shoot, created by Tonne Goodman and Annie Leibovitz, expands on that idea; each image is a visual walk-off of sorts. Fashion fanatics will recognize not only Derek (Ben Stiller’s) signature Blue Steel gaze, but homages to famous fashion images—from Helmut Newton’s suggestive “Saddle I” to the sizzling straddle from Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 Blow-Up. Three of them are decoded here. What else can you discover?
Supermodels vs. Zoolander 2
Blow-Up vs. Zoolander 2
Charles James vs. Zoolander 2
Derek Zoolander takes us inside his really, really ridiculously good-looking apartment:
