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.
Mr. Fornas who was born in 1947 and who run an executive search company avenue Matignon before leading Richemont, will also leave his positions on the senior executive and management committees at Geneva-based Richemont. However he will remain a non-executive director. He will be replaced on the senior executive committee by current Cartier CEO, Cyrille Vigneron. Continue reading
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.
Shiatzy Chen is a Taiwanese fashion house, founded in 1978 by Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia, who is often referred to as the Chanel of Taiwan.
Guillaume Henry born in France in 1978, studied art at Beaux-Arts de Troyes before moving to Paris to enroll in the Ecole Duperré School of Design, Fashion and Creation, and then IFM, the Institut Français de la Mode.
It is a stunning collection for this fashion week 2016 in Paris, very new? very brillant, very creative. 
Alberto Zambelli lives and works between Milan, Tokyo and Shanghai. He graduates at the Fortuny Professional Institute for designers in Brescia in 1986 and later he attends with a further graduation the Istituto Marangoni in Milan. From 1994 and 1996 he works as knitwear assistant at the ITTIERRE Group in Isernia.
Romantic, imaginative, feminine… Luisa Beccaria represents the contemporary female dreamer. Constant inspiration drawn from poetry, art and nature aids Luisa in creating a bespoke beauty, able to free the dreaming spirit of every woman. Since its debut during the ’80s, the Luisa Beccaria aesthetic and style has been taking shape through beautiful dresses shown among art galleries to enchanted gardens.