Anthony Vaccarello succeeds to Hedi Slimane at Yves Saint Laurent. Anthony Vaccarello, most recently the creative director of Versus Versace, has been nominated the new creative director of Yves Saint Laurent.
Mr. Vaccarello, a 36-year-old Italian-Belgian designer, succeeds to Hedi Slimane, whose long-rumored departure from Yves Saint Laurent, owned by the Paris-based group Kering, was made official on Friday. The president and chief executive of Yves Saint Laurent, stated: “His modern, pure aesthetic is the perfect fit for the maison.”
Mr. Vaccarello founded his own brand, in 2009, but will suspend that line to “devote himself fully to Saint Laurent,” according to a spokesman for the brand. He will be responsible for women’s wear, men’s wear, the couture line revived by Mr. Slimane and the image of the brand.
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Launched in 2002 UAE, Amato, which means ‘beloved’ in Italian, is the brainchild of the much-awarded creative designer Furne One, who partnered with textile expert Rashid Ali, to build this Avant Garde label.
Hedi Slimane leaves St Laurent. The Kering group and Hedi Slimane did not come to any agreement on his compensation. He will leave the fashion house before the next fashion shows. The current rumors about his imminent arrival at Scaparelli’s has not been yet confirmed.
Since Yiqing Yin left his role as Leonard Creative Director at the end of 2015, the role remained empty until now. Following Yin’s departure, Leonard took the time to work alone in his Parisian studio. In May 2016, Leonard began priming stylist Christine Phung to take over as the new Creative Director of the House.
Sorbus aucuparia, more commonly called rowan and mountain-ash (although the latter name may be used for several other distantly related trees), is a species of deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family.
If you thought that fashion and silver hair could not coexist, you were wrong. The new face for American Apparel is a beautiful 60 year old with grey hair and a royal posture.
The cloche hat is a fitted, bell-shaped hat that was popular during the 1920s, but was first founded in 1908 and continued to be popular until 1933. Cloche is the French word for “bell”.
The luxury Hermes cie has declared a net profit for one billion euro in 2015 and has slightly increased its margin by to 31.8%. Early February the leather-saddle company had already released its annual turnover, which reached 4.84 billion euros in sales, up 8.1% at constant exchange rates.
Richemont’s Chief Executive, Bernard Fornas, has announced that he would be retiring from the luxury goods company at the end of March. The Frenchman, who previously led the Richemont’s giant Cartier jewelry business, has been joint head with Richard Lepeu since April 2013. Mr. Lepeu will now become the sole Chief Executive of Richemont, which also owns upmarket Swiss watchmakers IWC, Piaget and Jaeger-LeCoultre.
Jonathan Saunders, hailed as one of the most exciting and captivating fashion designers of the London showcase, has just been nominated the new Creative Director of Dior. To welcome him at Dior, his first capsule collection will be first presented in London and not in Paris as usual. Dior has ordered a new weapon of mass creative construction for the Dior label and makes a mockery of the Paris Fashion Federation – Shame on them!
This is the wonderful world of fashion! The week is over and every journalist has reported on the collections and the fashion house.
Jean-Paul Gaultier is going to create a collection with the supermarket chain. Apparently, the French designer will create fashion clothes for women, men and children as well as products for home, about in all 100 pieces will be available in 2016
Bouchra Jarrar has been named artistic director of women’s collections at Lanvin. She starts on Monday and is expected to unveil her first collection here this fall for the spring 2017 season.
“How can a collection like the one you’ve just seen be delivered to the shops tomorrow?,” said Sidney Toledano, Chief Executive after the Dior’s show.
Louis Vuitton, the flagship luxury brand of LVMH, just put an end to almost one month of catwalk shows that began in New York and moved on to London and Milan before ending in Paris this week.