Originally Posted by
BenA
To be fair, the design work was done by Zac Posen, not by Delta themselves. We don't know the terms of the contract, but it's entirely possible that with a celebrity designer, Delta was required to cede some level of creative control over the finished product.
Anything is possible, but I'd put the probability that Zac Posen dictated the design to that degree to be less than 0.0000001%.