Is ‘Pillowtalk’ Singer, Zayn Malik Dumping Music For Fashion?

• Now that Zayn wants to make it big in fashion, we hope the move won’t lose him the music lovers whose hearts he’s won as a solo artist.

Zayn Malik performing at KIIS FM’s Wango Tango 2016 at StubHub Center in California. Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Zayn Malik, who left pop boy band One Direction last year to pursue a solo career, seems to be taking fashion too serious.

In June, he created a stock with Iron Maiden illustrator Mark Wilkinson, and now he’s teamed up with Italian designer Giuseppe Zanotti to give a second shot with footwear.

The 23-year-old singer said to GQ: ‘Style is not being afraid to be bold about some things, or to say what it is you have to say, I feel like Giuseppe does that with his collection and I try to do that with my music. So it kind of works.’

The duo, who worked together during 2015 Paris Fashion Week in France, have designed a pair of rider boots due to be released in 2017.

Zayn, who now wants to continue work in fashion, added: ‘There’s a lot of offers come our way at the minute with different things to do with fashion and hopefully I get to get involved in all of them.

‘I’d love to just continually have a presence, because I feel like it’s very heavily tied into music and the image and the fashion, and it’s all kind of one thing. So you kinda gotta be in there, I guess.’

Since leaving 1D, Zayn has recorded major songs ‘Like I Would’, ‘It’s You’, ‘BeFoUr’ and best of all, ‘Pillowtalk’ which has reached over half a billion Vevo views.

Now that Zayn wants to make it big in fashion, we hope the move won’t lose him the music lovers whose hearts he’s won as a solo artiste.