Designers Switching Houses & Moving to New Brands

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Trussardi Appoints New Creative Directors
The Italian luxury company has tapped Serhat Işık and Benjamin A. Huseby, founders and designers of the Berlin-based GmbH brand, as its new creative directors.

Source: wwd

That's a weird one... sounds like someone is chasing cool in Berlin.

I like the duo’s work, excited to see what they come up with here and hopefully bring some of the unisex concepts in to their designs at Trussardi as well.

 

[THD96]

“It’s Very Simple: People Want to Wear Gaultier.” Meet the Brand’s New Creative Director Florence Tétier

The house is also return to Ready-to-Wear with the new creative director.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

“It’s Very Simple: People Want to Wear Gaultier.” Meet the Brand’s New Creative Director Florence Tétier

The house is also return to Ready-to-Wear with the new creative director.

does anyone here know anything about her? bc this will literally be the nail in the coffin for me if Gaultier goes down the drain

 

[perhydrol]

^According to the articles out there, she's nothing more than a curator of content because collections will be designed in collaboration with different designers and by the in-house team basing on the archives. Have to say, it's a quite clever way to monetize the hype around Gaultier. Also, Jean Paul Gaultier is still involved in this project, he's just not designing things.

 

[eugenius]

I definitely like the idea of different designers taking a stab @ JPG and reimaging his past designs. Granted, I couldn't tell you jack about any of the designers quoted in the article, but it's still a great idea regardless. But please please please, leave those mesh shirts in the archives!

And I'm happy that Chitose is still on board for his upcoming couture collection.

 

[perhydrol]

Ungaro
In: Kobi Halperin

 

[reese06]

I forgot Ungaro was even around these days.

I just did a quick search of Kobi Halperin and everything is matronly department store fodder. I don't understand this choice.

 

[eugenius]

^^Forgot Ungaro? Me too. I was like, "Unwhato?"

 

[Marc10]

Very Olivier Lapidus for Lanvin vibes from this...

 

[fashionista-ta]

Not sure there's any coming back from the Lindsay Lohan stunt. There must be a graceful way for brands like these to depart.

 

[THD96]

Phoebe is back.

 

[Deleted member 167090]

Though I am not a big fan of her, I am really curious and excited to see if she can beat the new Bottega!

 

[Frederic01]

Sources: Pucci Tapped an LVMH Insider as Its Next Designer


Miles Socha
August 6, 2021

Camille Miceli, a seasoned creative who has worked in the design departments of Dior and Louis Vuitton, is headed to Italy to take on Emilio Pucci, WWD has learned.

Market sources said Miceli is to start at the Florentine house sometime later this year. She could not immediately be reached for comment.

As reported, Pucci recently revealed plans to return to its roots as a resort-focused brand after years of behaving like a designer house with runways shows in Milan and boutiques on Avenue Montaigne in Paris and Madison Avenue in New York.

The glamorous Miceli, fond of the seaside and the mountains, is seen as a natural incarnation of the brand and its lifestyle.

Considered one of Italy’s fashion pioneers in outfitting the jet set, Emilio Puccibegan designing skiwear out of jersey fabrics in 1947 and opened his house in 1949. His colorful, graphic motifs quickly became a signature of the house.

Most recently, Miceli worked under Nicolas Ghesquière at Vuitton as accessories creative director, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before that, she advised on certain leather goods at Christian Dior and designed costume jewelry, which become an important and vibrant category fueled by her designs.

A vivacious fixture on the Paris fashion scene, Miceli joined Vuitton’s public relations department in 1997 just as Marc Jacobs arrived as its artistic director. Encouraged by the American designer, Miceli segued into creative pursuits and began designing costume jewelry collections at Vuitton.

Miceli started her fashion career at age 15 when she interned at Chanel and Azzedine Alaïa. She spent seven years as a publicist at Chanel before joining Vuitton.

Controlled by LVMH since 2000, Pucci has experimented with a variety of permanent designers over the years, including Julio Espada, Christian Lacroix, Matthew Williamson, Peter Dundas and MSGM’s Massimo Giorgetti, and also studio configurations. The brand had recently experimented with guest designers, including Christelle Kocher of France and Japan’s Tomo Koizumi.

wwd.com/

 

[THD96]

Nigo named Artistic Director of Maison Kenzo

Sidney Toledano, Chairman and CEO of the LVMH Fashion Group and a member of the LVMH Executive Committee, is pleased to announce the appointment of Nigo as Artistic Director of Maison Kenzo, effective September 20th, 2021.

“I am very happy to welcome Nigo as the Artistic Director of the Maison Kenzo. The arrival of an extremely talented Japanese designer will allow us to write a new page in the history of the House that Takada Kenzo founded. I am convinced that the creativity and innovation of Nigo as well as his attachment to the history of the House will fully express all the potential of Kenzo”, says Sidney Toledano.

“I am proud to have been appointed Artistic Director of Kenzo. I was born in the year that Takada Kenzo san opened his first store in Paris. We both graduated from the same fashion school in Tokyo. In 1993, the year that Kenzo joined the LVMH Group, I started my career in Fashion. Kenzo san’s approach to creating originality was through his understanding of many different cultures. It is also the essence of my own philosophy of creativity. Inheriting the spirit of Kenzo san’s craftsmanship to create a new Kenzo is the greatest challenge of my 30-year career, which I intend to achieve together with the team. Finally, I would like to thank Bernard Arnault and Sidney Toledano for giving me this wonderful opportunity”, says Nigo.

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Nigo started his first independent clothing label in Tokyo in 1993 and went on to change the landscape of global street culture. Working simultaneously in the worlds of fashion and music, with acute sensitivity to detail and through frequent collaboration with some of the best known companies and creative individuals in the world, he has innovated new ways for fashion to relate to its audience that have since become industry standards. In 2020, he produced a magnificent capsule with Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton

Source: lvmh.com

 

[GivenchyAddict]

They must have been desperate to go digging Nigo. Do people know about A Bathing Ape? Anyway, let's wait and see.

 

[Lola701]

Interesting news…
I guess now Pharrell will sell himself back to LVMH…
They are really struggling at Kenzo but it has a potential to be good and to speak to millennials..

Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy and now Kenzo…that’s a lot of streetwear for men at LVMH now.

 

[khoinguyen666]

They must have been desperate to go digging Nigo. Do people know about A Bathing Ape? Anyway, let's wait and see.

Bathing Ape is popular with the streetwear crowd. It still sells really well, even after Nigo left which destroyed any creativity it had left

Interesting news…
I guess now Pharrell will sell himself back to LVMH…
They are really struggling at Kenzo but it has a potential to be good and to speak to millennials..

Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy and now Kenzo…that’s a lot of streetwear for men at LVMH now.

Virgil Abloh Louis Vuitton has a collab with Nigo's newer brand "Human Made." Not surprised

 

[Koibito]

So Charaf Tajer wasn’t chosen?

 

[Lola701]

^^
He refused Versace…It was a bit surprising for me to hear his name alongside Kenzo in the first place.

Bathing Ape is popular with the streetwear crowd. It still sells really well, even after Nigo left which destroyed any creativity it had left



Virgil Abloh Louis Vuitton has a collab with Nigo's newer brand "Human Made." Not surprised

His brand « Human Made » is indeed quite interesting. My younger brother and my nephews are wearing some stuff from it. Very American workwear inspired but it’s good…

I think Nigo has moved on from the BAPE years even if what he does is still in the pure tradition of Streetwear.

 

[Marc10]

They must have been desperate to go digging Nigo. Do people know about A Bathing Ape? Anyway, let's wait and see.

They're not as hot as they used to be a few years ago, but it's still streetwear giant, specially in Asia.