![]() Ivy Park Spring 2017 features exclusively women of color and emphasizes the physical and emotional strength of its stars. It had been just more than a month since the campaign debuted at the end of January. (“I can’t give away too much detail,” she told me.) While the initial buzz around that spinoff indicated it would follow Zoey’s escapades at college, Shahidi noted the pilot merely begins to plant the idea that Zoey will pursue higher education. When we spoke, Shahidi was on a brief break from shooting the third-to-last episode of Black-ish’s third season-and she was about to begin shooting the pilot for the rumored spinoff series featuring her character, Zoey Johnson. “We had to take a moment mid-shoot to just hug it out.” “It’s pretty cool to have friends where you can say that: Oh, yeah, they finished their Europe tour,” Shahidi said. ![]() They soon recruited her to appear in the latest campaign for Ivy Park, a series of images also starring SZA, Selah Marley, model Sophie Koella, Beyoncé herself and protégées Chloe and Halle Bailey-“my BFFs,” Shahidi said of the sisters, who had just wrapped up their European tour. “I was going to a Beyoncé concert and wearing Ivy Park.” Like all good stories, no?Ī fan of Beyoncé (naturally), Ivy Park (ditto), and women’s empowerment (same), Shahidi met the executive team behind Beyoncé’s athleisure label at that concert. “It started one fateful day,” said actress Yara Shahidi on a recent Friday in March. ![]()
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