Designer & Fashion Insiders Behavior (PLEASE READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING)

[yslforever]

Does anyone familiar with the fashion industry in the 90s know why Gilles Dufour decided to leave the Chanel studio for…Balmain? Were tensions rising within the studio around that time? Did Karl ever try to reconnect with him after he left? I read in a Vanity Fair article from 1992 that the then-president of Chanel caused some friction between them in the mid-80s and I’m wondering if those tensions grew over the years, eventually pushing Gilles to move on from Karl.

Do you remember obese Karl Lagerfeld and how he discovered Hedi Slimane silhouettes at YSL and decided to be skinny to fit in Hedi's clothes ?
So he succeeded to lose a lot of weight, very quickly, Gilles could not do it, and Karl decided to cut every ones who remembered him of his past-self... simple as that. Gilles was part of Karl's diet.
But Gilles was not the only one to be let go, Patrick Hourcade too.

 

[Lola701]

Does anyone familiar with the fashion industry in the 90s know why Gilles Dufour decided to leave the Chanel studio for…Balmain? Were tensions rising within the studio around that time? Did Karl ever try to reconnect with him after he left? I read in a Vanity Fair article from 1992 that the then-president of Chanel caused some friction between them in the mid-80s and I’m wondering if those tensions grew over the years, eventually pushing Gilles to move on from Karl.

But what prompted him to leave…The moment Amanda came into the picture at Chanel, it was quite a signal, for him who has been around Karl for so long, that his days were counted. And he accepted Balmain.
And when you decide to leave Karl, it’s generally the end. The only one who got his blessing was Herve Leger right?
I have always found it funny that he was very supportive of others designers but always very dismissive of people who started with him.


Me i would love to know about Eric Wright. He is like the ever quiet person that has been around Karl for years. I know he was appreciated in Italy. Then he did a stint at Faconnable and then, nothing.