Singer covers Dazed magazine in Marc Jacobs leather jacket

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June 15, 2016 4:31 PM

Not so long after his girlfriend, Gigi Hadid, featured on the cover of a major magazine, Zayn Malik has landed the cover of Dazed magazine. He appears on the cover of the latest issue in Marc Jacobs.

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The talented singer was photographed by Collier Schorr, as Zayn poses shirtless with an unbuttoned leather jacket. Here’s some of what the Malik had to say to the magazine:

On getting Taylor Swift’s approval on his album Mind of Mine:

“At Gigi [Hadid]’s house we briefly spoke and she told me she really enjoyed the album. It was nice to get some feedback. She said she thought I was cool and I kind of blushed a bit and didn’t know how to take it.”

On leaving One Direction:

“I know that musicians are seen as one-sided people a lot of the time, but we do have other elements to us as well. I didn’t feel good. Do you know what I mean?… You need to be able to express what it is that you are. I’m free at last.”

On his love of writing:

“I have always liked language and the way you can say a certain thing in a certain way and it can be perceived so differently by whoever is listening, because of whatever time they are at in their life.”

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