Emanuel Ungaro - The All-Things Emanuel Ungaro Thread

[LolitaLuxe]

Sounds like an act of desperation. They both both seem pretty desprate, actually. maybe it's a match made in heaven. (doubt it)

 

[Label Basher]

i agree with you to a degree, but imagine the controversy of replacing a genius like lagerfeld with an unknown -- but for her party girl reputation -- stella mccartney.

Party Girl reputation? Stella as in Stella McCartney ok did I miss some goss in 1997. Please dish the details.

 

[Squizree]

I'm guessing the other 3 are Kim Kardashian, Hilary Duff and Nicole Richie. It's been taken so far already.

 

[mikeijames]

Party Girl reputation? Stella as in Stella McCartney ok did I miss some goss in 1997. Please dish the details.

what did we do before the blogosphere? before she settled, the tabs always caught her out with her buds, kate moss and sadie frost.

http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/200...th-stella-mccartney-sadie-frost-and-jude-law/

how soon we forget. and stella mccartney's replacement at chloe had a similar image before her appointment....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/3306058/Moll-made-good.html

 

[Bidwell]

Ungaro CEO Moufarrige Out, Lohan In!

WWD December 17

PARIS — Lindsay’s in, Mounir’s out.

Despite widespread speculation to the contrary — and a scathing reaction to her first effort — Lindsay Lohan is continuing on at Ungaro as the fashion house’s artistic adviser, while the man who recruited her, company president Mounir Moufarrige, has resigned, WWD has learned.

Ungaro named Marie Fournier its new general manager to oversee all operations. An 18-year veteran of the company, Fournier was previously Ungaro’s vice president in charge of business development and licensing. Before that, she had an eight-year career at Christian Dior.

In a brief statement, Ungaro said Moufarrige, who has served as president since 2006, would continue to advise the company as a member of its strategic committee, but that he was “withdrawing” from an operational role to devote more time to his other businesses, which include U-Boat and Welder, two fast-growing Italian watch companies.

“It’s my decision. It’s not a total departure, except for operational duties,” Moufarrige told WWD exclusively.

He waved off suggestions of discord with Ungaro’s majority owner, Asim Abdullah, and noted his decision “has nothing to do with Lindsay Lohan at all.…The strategy is set for Ungaro and that’s it.”

Abdullah, a high-tech entrepreneur who acquired Ungaro in 2005 from Salvatore Ferragamo, declined to comment Wednesday.

Moufarrige tapped Lohan as artistic adviser in September in a risky bid to jump-start rejuvenation at a house wracked by a revolving door of designers and lackluster collections. He teamed her with Spanish-born designer Estrella Archs.

“Odds are it could work,” Moufarrige said in these columns in September. “I think the noise level around Lindsay will be very, very big.”

He was right about the noise. His exit comes only a few months after Lohan and Archs showed a spring collection during Paris Fashion Week that set off a cacophony of reactions from critics and retail buyers that ranged from “very Los Angeles” to “cheesy” to “truly, deeply horrible.” There had been numerous reports Abdullah was thinking of getting rid of Lohan as a result of the negative reaction, none of which appear to be true at this stage.

At Ungaro, Lohan and Archs succeeded Bogotá, Colombia-born Esteban Cortazar, whose three collections for the house failed to ignite much commercial or press interest in the brand.

Peter Dundas, who is now the designer at Emilio Pucci; Vincent Darré, now devoted to a signature furniture line, and Giambattista Valli, pursuing a signature label with Italy’s Mariella Burani Fashion Group, came before Cortazar as Ungaro designers following the retirement of its founding couturier in 2004.

Moufarrige is known for making unexpected decisions, most famously for choosing Stella McCartney, then 25, to succeed Karl Lagerfeld as head designer of Chloé in 1997. He had a long career at Chloé parent Compagnie Financière Richemont, including stints at Dunhill and Montblanc.

On Wednesday, he suggested he was eyeing additional business opportunities in watches and jewelry.

 

[lmelanie]

what the eff?

 

[AgrenateD]

^ well, he was the one who hired LiLo anyway. gotta pay for the
consequences, eh? i guess he never saw it coming though, the fiasco
she was bound to create for Ungaro. how embarrasing.

 

[happyguy]

the fall of a once great house is sad...

 

[MulletProof]

well the damage is done, but at least he's out.

 

[Spike413]

That's probably the only smart thing he's done since landing at Ungaro.

 

[masquerade]

so is he taking the fall for her while she remains? he definitely should go, he ran the house into the ground, but idk why she is staying.

 

[MyNameIs]

Oh boy. Now all they need to do is get Dina Lohan (maybe she could open FW show?) and they'll be on their way to recovery.

 

[mikeijames]

no ceo, no buzz, and barely a buyer in sight. sounds like the house of ungaro's ripe for a takeover.

 

[balmain1914]

He has got his lesson

 

[Flashbang]

Something is changing at Ungaro; the higher-ups at the French maison are searching for a creative director that will add a new lustre to the label. Last Friday, the brand's owner, Asim Abdullah, met with Giles Deacon at the restaurant of the Le Relais Plaza, not far from the legendary headquarters of the fashion house, in Avenue Montaigne. The encounter between the company chairman and the 40 year-old English designer, comes at a rather unstable moment for the label. After ending the collaboration with Giambattista Valli in 2005, and the harsh critiques received for the spring-summer 2010 collection designed by Lindsay Lohan and Estrella Arch, Abdullah confirmed the creative divorce between Ungaro and the American actress last February.

vogue.it

 

[Salvatore]

Waow .

 

[Creative]

Deacon, that's all it needed! Abdullah choices are so funny. B)

I've been told that Asim wants Giambattista to return to the house, I don't think that will happen since Valli left Ungaro to focus in his own brand, but who knows.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

^ Yeah, plus, he apparently turned down being heir of Valentino for the same reason.
Giles Deacon is a strange choice..

 

[mikeijames]

whoever gets the role next should sign a long term contract that pays out loads should the management capriciously change their mind again...

(valli for valentino would've been magical)

 

[Squizree]

Abdullah even offered an ex-Valentino shareholder to buy 75% of Ungaro. How desperate.

Valli was offered the position yes, but he is smart enough to know not to get involved in sticky things like this. Im not sure I want him there anyway, then again anyone will do right now.