Discussion: Who Should Be The Creative Director of Balenciaga?

[Avonlea]

Chat gpt will be a great choice if they want to keep Demna's aesthetic.

 

[Lola701]

Can Kering afford to pay a star designer? If it could, it wouldn't have appointed second-tier designers (Ancora Boy and Sean McGirr) as creative directors. Kering's crisis is evident in its preference for spending less on second-tier (and third-tier) designers than hiring design rockstars who are now free agents.

They can. They are just cheap…
Demna is more expensive than Ancora and yet, they chose the cheap route.
Balenciaga is bigger than McQueen so they can.

And even with the guy they hired, they could have chosen an LVMH prize winner for the same price.

But then again, the Balenciaga job is not a 10M a year position. You can push it to 2/3M with advantages that makes it worth 5M.

 

[yslforever]

What is Martina Tiefenthaler doing right now ?
I know they split with Demna a while ago, so I assume she is not at Gucci.
If we are using Kering brains, she's next in line for Balenciaga.

 

[PDFSD]

I don’t expect someone currently in position to take over. Maybe I’m wrong but I can see them either hire a buzz-worthy young talent that will bring a conversation, much like they did with Demna or take an experienced voice.

Maybe this will be Martine Rose ultimate calling. I bet someone there must be pressing them about hiring a woman at the helm of one the house of the group. With Gucci, YSL and McQueen out of the equation, it may be the moment.

Martine Rose Demna himself recommended her to the group ceo but they ignored this , according to inside folks at balenciaga

 

[PDFSD]

Maybe the Hodakova girl then.
I don’t know…I’m thinking from a corporate politics stand point. Maybe they will actually make a challenging and controversial choice.

I can’t really say that I’m interested by what’s going on regarding Kering brands and affiliated (Valentino).

Hodakova fits the young hype/LVMH winner and margiela clone upcycle that Demna does as well Lotta styles the shows so its hype close to Miu Miu success that for them produced a versace cd shift


i can totally see them make this simple calculation and adding she is a woman is cherry on the cake of Kering humanity goals :-)


its her

 

[GivenchyAddict]

I bet on Marie Adam Leenaerdt…

 

[hamburgers]

Half of their revenue is from men’s so are they willing to nuke that department with someone with no experience? The women’s leather goods growth at ysl was enough to cover that up when they did that with Vacarello but that’s not the case here.

Being able to be announced yesterday makes it seem like someone unemployed or self employed since no one released a departure notice to preface it

 

[FashionPower]

What is Martina Tiefenthaler doing right now ?
I know they split with Demna a while ago, so I assume she is not at Gucci.
If we are using Kering brains, she's next in line for Balenciaga.

She had beef with Lotta + legal beef with Kering itself as a company.
You know that a pending legal beef with Kering means doors closed forever (looking at you Hedi and Nicholas).

 

[oioioi]

PP

 

[yslforever]

PP

Philipp Plein ofc.

 

[oioioi]

Philipp Plein ofc.

Exactly!

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

Kering-owned Balenciaga promotes Nathalie Raynaud to deputy CEO during leadership shift

Balenciaga promotes Nathalie Raynaud to deputy CEO amid leadership changes. The former chief product officer now reports to CEO Gianfranco Gianangeli as the brand awaits a new creative director.

au.fashionnetwork.com

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

Martine Rose Demna himself recommended her to the group ceo but they ignored this , according to inside folks at balenciaga

Shayne Oliver could be good

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

Gosha if without the scandal

 

[PDFSD]

Shayne Oliver could be good

mm no for me both one note same as gosha is limited and past there time its even worse than demna on repeat

 

[style_expert]

So PPP for Balenciaga? According to the green square (allegedly)

 

[FashionPower]

The way I jumped to this thread as soon as I saw green square post LOL
If it's true...I Just hope PPP won't bring Sabato back to his team

 

[hamburgers]

Best of luck to the shoe, accessories, men’s, and marketing teams if so.

 

[oioioi]

PP

Forgot to add the third P. Lol. Replying to myself.

 

[oioioi]

If it's true...I Just hope PPP won't bring Sabato back to his team

I don't think so after what happened at Gucci, both being under Kering.