Matthieu Blazy - Designer, Creative Director of Bottega Veneta

[LadyJunon]

The Daniel Lee bit was a low blow, but I'm not surprised.

To be fair, he kind of deserves it for those Burberry collections he's doing now.

 

[FashionFanatico]

The Daniel Lee bit was a low blow, but I'm not surprised.

What I heard -from quite reliable sources- is that he is no stranger to this kind of behaviour himself... But Blazy being a fashion industry darling does wonders at covering that up and the lack of proposals going beyond gimmicks (those leather versions of every single wardrobe pieces... please... groundbreaking fashion...) in his Bottega Veneta collections.

The mention of him living with his friend the image director was intriguing, hopefully they can spend some time talking about campaigns because they have been quite weak in comparison to Lee's.

His Bottega is like him: bourgeois, with a nice facade. Hopefully he'll bring some depth to it.

just wondering if your «sources» really work with him in the team.
i really doubt it, because an old friend of mine is working as a PA in the company (only 3 months for now), but she confirms what the portrait of Vanessa Friedman is capturing in a good way. He's a down-to-earth guy - who works hard and tirelessly. But obviously he expects the same from his team. it's common that if you work for at such a famous house that you never work 9-5, but mostly more than that.

 

[Thefrenchy]

just wondering if your «sources» really work with him in the team.
i really doubt it, because an old friend of mine is working as a PA in the company (only 3 months for now), but she confirms what the portrait of Vanessa Friedman is capturing in a good way. He's a down-to-earth guy - who works hard and tirelessly. But obviously he expects the same from his team. it's common that if you work for at such a famous house that you never work 9-5, but mostly more than that.

They indeed did, and for more than 3 months

 

[Blondie Jonze]

Always something new.
And this is cute:

 

[LadyJunon]

Bottega Venetia has appointed internal veteran Barbara Zanin to the new company role "Director of Craft and Heritage"

EXCLUSIVE: Bottega Veneta Creates New Role – And This Is the Woman Cut for the Job
Meet Barbara Zanin, Bottega Veneta’s veteran who the company appointed to its newly created role of director of Craft and Heritage.

By SANDRA SALIBIAN
JULY 19, 2024, 12:00AM

MILAN — Bottega Veneta is upping its commitment to craft with the introduction of a new institutional role and the promotion of one of its veterans to the job.

The Kering-owned brand has appointed Barbara Zanin to the newly created role of director of Craft and Heritage. As a result, Zanin will work closely with creative director Matthieu Blazy and chief executive officer Leo Rongone on the preservation and promotion of Bottega Veneta’s artisanal craft; oversee all artisans at the company’s Montebello atelier in Italy’s Veneto region; continue to build the brand’s archives, and serve as an ambassador of the label’s leather craftsmanship.

The company zeroed in on Zanin for her longtime expertise in the field. Zanin joined Bottega Veneta in 1998 as an assistant researcher in leather products and then served as head of leather goods product development for the last 23 years, based at the Montebello atelier.

In addition to playing a pivotal role in shaping the brand’s leather product development, Zanin was instrumental in the company’s artisanal training programs, as she is one of the founders of Bottega Veneta’s artisanal training school Accademia Labor et Ingenium. As reported, the academy — whose name is translated from “craft and creativity” in Latin — opened last year to transmit the brand’s leather-working savoir-faire through workshops and courses for students, new hires and employees.

“Craft is Bottega Veneta’s timeless technology and there are few people who understand the history, depth and intricacy of our craft like Barbara Zanin,” said Blazy. “Since my appointment as creative director, Barbara has been a key figure in transmitting the artisanal savoir-faire that is the beating heart of the house. She is the perfect person to take on this role and to protect and promote Bottega Veneta craftsmanship in our Montebello atelier and around the world.”

“With her long-standing commitment to the house and her profound understanding of our heritage, Barbara Zanin is ideally placed to serve as a global ambassador for our unique artisanal know-how that has been passed down from one generation to the next,” echoed Rongone.

“Artisanal craft is the founding passion of Bottega Veneta. It is what first drew me to the house 26 years ago,” said Zanin. “Over the decades, I have seen firsthand the steadfastness of that passion. It distinguishes our product, unites our community and inspires infinite evolution and creativity.”

Zanin expressed her commitment to honor and further advance such a rich artisanal culture, which has been energized by Blazy’s design vision steeped in innovation and intensive craft.

Since being promoted to the creative helm of the brand in 2021 after the sudden departure of Daniel Lee, Blazy has put the company’s artisanal prowess into the foreground. He has done so in different ways, ranging from famously playing with what he dubbed “perverse banality” and executing very ordinary-looking basics — such as blue jeans, plaid shirts and gray sweat tops — in supple nubuck, for example, to stretching Bottega Veneta’s signature Intrecciato weaving technique into new realms. For instance, for the spring 2024 collection he asked artisans to reprise basket-weaving techniques employing strips of leather dyed and treated to faithfully approximate the look and feel of banana leaves, shedding new light on the leather technique the Italian house established in 1966 is best known for.

WWD

 

[lookatme]

TLDR, but I'm assuming it's all about how she scammed Bottega and Kering into paying her an annual 6-figure salary.

 

[Frederic01]

WSJ

 

[Olaffo]

Does anyone have access to the article ?

 

[jeanclaude]

I thought it was Sabato de Sarno in that pic!! I haven´t realized they look so similar!

 

[tourbillions]

I thought it was Sabato de Sarno in that pic!! I haven´t realized they look so similar!

wait till you see him dance

 

[Vikingtop]

Kering Beauté, the recently formed beauty division of Kering, is relaunching a line of fragrances for Bottega Veneta under the creative direction of the brand’s designer, Matthieu Blazy.

Bottega Veneta entered the fragrance world in 2011 with several well-received fragrances under license to Coty Inc. Although it has not been announced, we do not expect that those fragrances will be relaunched.

According to reports by WWD, the new fragrance are:

• Come With Me (Italian bergamot, French orris butter)
• Acqua Sale (Spanish labdanum, Macedonian juniper oil)
• Colpo di Sole (French Angelica oil, Moroccan orange blossom absolute)
• Alchemie, (Brazilian pink pepper, Somalian myrrh notes)
• Déjà Minuit (geranium from Madagascar, Guatemalan cardamom)

As well as the notes listed above, all of the fragrances reportedly contain a vetiver note

The new collection is expected to launch in Bottega Veneta stores with a more extensive roll-out in mid-2025.

Since the formation of Kering Beauté in 2023, the company have acquired Creed, and brought several of its owned brand licenses in house, including Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga.

 

[Vikingtop]

THAT bottle looks.....not my taste........

THE Names of the frafrnaces....... well.........average....

 

[LadyJunon]

That bottle looks like a butt plug and the fragrance names sound a title of a Gucci-by-Sabato collection.

 

[tourbillions]

that bottle looks like poop... did none of the team realize it?

 

[Vikingtop]

I must say, I had the same associations......

 

[Lola701]

The bottles under Tomas Maier were beautiful.
Matthieu is just trying to be different for the sake of it.

 

[Norden]

Way overdesigned