Gucci has tapped Alia Bhatt as its first Indian international model ambassador.
The actress, producer and entrepreneur is about to make her first look within the position on the upcoming Gucci cruise 2024 runway show in Seoul. To be staged on the metropolis’s Gyeongbokgung Palace on Tuesday, the occasion will mark the style home’s 25 years within the nation.
Bhatt made her appearing debut as a toddler within the 1999 thriller Sangharsh, which was adopted by her first main position in Karan Johar’s teen movie Pupil of the 12 months in 2012. Ever since, she had a prolific profession punctuated by totally different accolades, together with 5 Filmfare Critics Awards, in addition to the Time100 Influence Award, which she obtained final yr for her contribution to the leisure business.
Additionally final yr, Bhatt had a short position within the interval movie RRR, which was nominated on the Golden Globes 2023 for finest image, non-English language. The movie made historical past for profitable one of the best unique tune, movement image class. Bhatt additionally starred as a sufferer of home abuse within the Netflix black comedy movie Darlings, which marked her first manufacturing enterprise below her firm Everlasting Sunshine Productions.
Subsequent up, the Bollywood star will seem alongside Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan in Netflix’s spy thriller Coronary heart of Stone, which is able to mark her first American movie launch. The film is slated to premiere on the streaming platform on Aug. 11.
Alia Bhatt, Gucci’s new international model ambassador
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Style-wise, Bhatt has appeared on the covers of shiny magazines globally, most lately fronting Vogue India and Harper’s Bazaar Arabia points. Earlier this month, she also made her Met Gala debut in an Atelier Prabal Gurung ivory ballgown coated in hand-beaded pearls and that includes an extended dramatic practice.
Including to her entrepreneurial ventures, Bhatt launched her personal sustainable maternity and kids’s clothes model named Ed-a-Mamma and is an investor within the Nykaa magnificence firm.
Moreover her accomplishments throughout totally different fields, Bhatt’s advocacy in favor of self-expression and inclusivity in modern society had been seen as key in securing the Gucci ambassadorship as in tune with the model’s values and mission of fostering cultural empowerment inside the subsequent era of artistic expertise.
In changing into a Gucci ambassador, Bhatt joins a pool of worldwide personalities among the many likes of Hanni, a lead singer of the worldwide chart-topping Korean group NewJeans; Squid Recreation star Lee Jung-jae and fellow South Korean actress Mina Shin, in addition to Japanese expertise Jun Shison.
Different Gucci faces embrace Dakota Johnson, Julia Garner, A$AP Rocky, Elliot Page, Halle Bailey and Liu Wen.
