Front page on tFS today: Hannah McGibbon is Hanging On By a String (Forum Buzz)
Natacha Ramsay-Levi Leaving Chloé, *Update* Gabriela Hearst Announced as Creative Director
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Fact: I haven't vaguely liked a single collection Hannah MacGibbon has designed for Chloe.
I wouldn't be surprised if she was given an ultimatum after the company saw that disgusting patchwork poncho she sent out for fall.
I wouldn't be surprised if she was given an ultimatum after the company saw that disgusting patchwork poncho she sent out for fall.
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Honestly though I am a fan of Phoebe , she is highly OVER RATED, save for her first collections , most of phoebe's collections look like Helmut Lang threw up on the runway. Lot of the stuff Hannah has put out , has been widely copied . Hannah is a shy awkward woman but she has great ideas and she puts out great pants. Hannah's collections are very Chloe , though she could refine her aesthetic , I would not count her out, she can rise to the occasion. I found Celine's latest collection , BORING , phoebe has yet to top her first collection for the house.
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Guillaume Henry is doing good things at Carven. I think he would be a nice choice for Chloe.
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As much as I dislike Hannah MacGibbon's runway collections, I have to say; what is actually available in stores is ten times more appealing than what is offered on the runway. A lot of it, at least what I have seen, is diffused and watered down from the runway. Also there is a lot of great, chic daywear that comes from inter-seasonal collections.
Perhaps she is not a strong designer, per se, in the line of Phoebe Philo or Paulo Melim Andersson, but her designs definitely speak to women. She has a great sense of commerce in that regard. I wonder if what she is doing is completely her own vision for the house? A lot of the runway collections seem very disorganized, almost as if a team of people were working on it and not one head honcho, so to speak.
Perhaps she is not a strong designer, per se, in the line of Phoebe Philo or Paulo Melim Andersson, but her designs definitely speak to women. She has a great sense of commerce in that regard. I wonder if what she is doing is completely her own vision for the house? A lot of the runway collections seem very disorganized, almost as if a team of people were working on it and not one head honcho, so to speak.
Too real.
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I knew this was coming when I read the 'until today she's still with us' (something like that) statement some weeks ago. 
I feel bad for her, but jeez, good riddance for the brand, I hope they finally find someone that manages to represent the label's legacy, interests and customers.
I feel bad for her, but jeez, good riddance for the brand, I hope they finally find someone that manages to represent the label's legacy, interests and customers.
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Ahh, Clare was the brain behind this gorgeous collection, how can one not have high expectations for this now? . Excellent choice.. I have a feeling she'll be the kind of energy needed for the brand. 
. Excellent choice.. I have a feeling she'll be the kind of energy needed for the brand. liberty33r1b
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from WWD
PARIS - Clare Waight Keller has been named creative director at Chloé, effective June 1, putting another British woman in the driver's seat at the French fashion house.
This confirms a report in WWD today and marks an end to almost 10 years of collaboration between Chloé and Hannah MacGibbon, who will leave the house "to pursue new projects." MacGibbon has been Chloé's creative director since 2008, and had previously worked beside Phoebe Philo at the house, owned by Compagnie Financiere Richemont.
In a statement, Chloé praised Waight Keller, who recently left Pringle of Scotland after six years as its creative director, for her "deep experience and innovative approach to knitwear."
“We are grateful to Hannah for her contribution and commitment to Chloé. Her considerable talents will be missed," stated Geoffroy de La Bourdonnaye, chief executive officer at Chloé.
The designer change is only the latest in a round of musical chairs currently playing out at European fashion firms, headlined by Christian Dior, which ousted its star couturier John Galliano last March amidst widening allegations of racial and anti-Semitic outbursts.
The High Court here is expected to announce Thursday a date when the designer is to stand trial on a charge of public insult.
Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton — thrust to international stardom for dressing England’s royal bride, Catherine Middleton — is said to be at the top of the list of potential candidates that luxury titan Bernard Arnault is coveting as Galliano’s eventual successor.
Meanwhile, the industry can anticipate new faces at a host of august names in the coming weeks and months.
Balmain has already said that Christophe Decarnin will be replaced by his number two, Olivier Rousteing, while Gianfranco Ferré, Cacharel, Azzaro, Kenzo and Trussardi are among brands said to be recruiting new creative leadership.
Even men’s wear, traditionally a less volatile industry sector, is suddenly teeming with upheaval, with Z Zegna’s star Alessandro Sartori said to be headed to Berluti; Jil Sander designer Paul Surridge tapped to succeed Sartori, and former Dunhill designer Kim Jones making his debut here next month at Louis Vuitton.
Meanwhile, Waight Keller’s successor at Pringle, former Balenciaga alum Alistair Carr, is already at work on the resort collection and will show his first men’s wear collection in Milan next month.
The flurry of change comes at a buoyant time for high-end fashion businesses, and after a long period of stability in design studios.
“The entire world is changing so deeply and so quickly in this moment. Perhaps some brands are feeling the absolute need to change their designer if he or she is no longer able to make consumers push the door of their boutiques,” mused Jean-Jacques Picart, an industry consultant here.
Tancrède de Lalun, merchandise manager for men’s and women’s wear at Printemps, said the revolving door scenario was a cyclical one and was amplified by the domino effect that every departure has on other houses.
“During the crisis, for two or three years, nobody moved,” he said. “Everyone was just ducking and waiting for the crisis to blow over by making as little noise as possible and hunkering down with their teams.”
The return of double-digit growth among many leading luxury brands has emboldened managers to give their labels a makeover, both in terms of strategy and creative talent, de Lalun said.
Lucian James, creative director and founder of Paris-based strategic consultancy Agenda Inc., agreed creative and business imperatives are in flux.
“The reason is that new sets of skills are being prioritized in an accelerated, fragmented fashion culture,” he explained. “In a social media-fueled landscape, a new breed of designer needs to operate more like commissioning editors, treating their brands as media channels that edit cultural themes, and manifest them as clothes. And while it seems new, interestingly it’s the same approach that drove Coco Chanel to success — an understanding that fashion wasn’t just clothes, it was about ideas and the culture that could be expressed as clothes.
“Designers are changing because consumers are changing; consumers want brands to inspire them with ideas, not just with advertising, and to tell them about the future, not just the past,” James added.
According to Robert Burke, president and chief executive officer of Robert Burke Associates in New York, the current game of musical chairs is likely to end with brands eclipsing the designers that eventually fill the empty seats.
“The last thing the brand wants is instability,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see lower-profile [hires] as opposed to major star designers.”
Naming Christophe Lemaire to succeed Jean Paul Gaultier at Hermès and designer-creative director tandems like Sébastien Peigné and Nicola Formichetti at Mugler are other examples of the antifame trend, concurred Printemps’ de Lalun.
“The market is recovering; it’s bringing back the energy and people think business could be even better,” de Lalun said. “It’s positive in the sense that it injects energy and a fresh vision. Having said that, hopefully things will not change every couple of years, because when a house changes its designer every two years, it’s very destabilizing.”
Liberty’s managing director Ed Burstell agreed. “Generally speaking, the overall merry-go-round of designers is not great for the industry. For a retailer, it’s really difficult to stand behind a brand that has a potentially changing designer,” he said. “A retailer wins by building a loyal rapport with its clientele, and you do that with consistency. It’s really difficult to establish that rapport when the consistency is not there. Look at the best brands. Take Burberry, for example. It has a consistent vision over time. Or Chanel. A consistent vision over time.”
Chloé has certainly weathered turbulence in its design studio since the 2006 exit of Philo. Before installing MacGibbon, one of Philo’s deputies, Chloé experimented with a team approach and three unfruitful seasons under Swedish designer Paulo Melim Andersson.
Waight Keller claimed to have helped transform Pringle over her six-year tenure “from a Scottish knitwear company to an international luxury brand.”
Before Pringle, Waight Keller was a senior women’s designer at Gucci during the Tom Ford era. Before that, she was design director for Ralph Lauren’s Purple Label men’s line. Her first job was as a women’s wear designer for Calvin Klein.
Floriane de Saint Pierre, who runs an eponymous executive search and consulting firm in Paris, said fashion firms must now face a “new world” of digital media and fast-growing emerging markets.
“Pure creativity is becoming equally important as the ability to manage creative talents at a global level,” she said. “In the past decade, we’ve seen designers become ‘creative directors.’ Now we are probably facing the need to have chief creative officers as creative partners of chief executive officers. This requires redesigning organizations.”
PARIS - Clare Waight Keller has been named creative director at Chloé, effective June 1, putting another British woman in the driver's seat at the French fashion house.
This confirms a report in WWD today and marks an end to almost 10 years of collaboration between Chloé and Hannah MacGibbon, who will leave the house "to pursue new projects." MacGibbon has been Chloé's creative director since 2008, and had previously worked beside Phoebe Philo at the house, owned by Compagnie Financiere Richemont.
In a statement, Chloé praised Waight Keller, who recently left Pringle of Scotland after six years as its creative director, for her "deep experience and innovative approach to knitwear."
“We are grateful to Hannah for her contribution and commitment to Chloé. Her considerable talents will be missed," stated Geoffroy de La Bourdonnaye, chief executive officer at Chloé.
The designer change is only the latest in a round of musical chairs currently playing out at European fashion firms, headlined by Christian Dior, which ousted its star couturier John Galliano last March amidst widening allegations of racial and anti-Semitic outbursts.
The High Court here is expected to announce Thursday a date when the designer is to stand trial on a charge of public insult.
Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton — thrust to international stardom for dressing England’s royal bride, Catherine Middleton — is said to be at the top of the list of potential candidates that luxury titan Bernard Arnault is coveting as Galliano’s eventual successor.
Meanwhile, the industry can anticipate new faces at a host of august names in the coming weeks and months.
Balmain has already said that Christophe Decarnin will be replaced by his number two, Olivier Rousteing, while Gianfranco Ferré, Cacharel, Azzaro, Kenzo and Trussardi are among brands said to be recruiting new creative leadership.
Even men’s wear, traditionally a less volatile industry sector, is suddenly teeming with upheaval, with Z Zegna’s star Alessandro Sartori said to be headed to Berluti; Jil Sander designer Paul Surridge tapped to succeed Sartori, and former Dunhill designer Kim Jones making his debut here next month at Louis Vuitton.
Meanwhile, Waight Keller’s successor at Pringle, former Balenciaga alum Alistair Carr, is already at work on the resort collection and will show his first men’s wear collection in Milan next month.
The flurry of change comes at a buoyant time for high-end fashion businesses, and after a long period of stability in design studios.
“The entire world is changing so deeply and so quickly in this moment. Perhaps some brands are feeling the absolute need to change their designer if he or she is no longer able to make consumers push the door of their boutiques,” mused Jean-Jacques Picart, an industry consultant here.
Tancrède de Lalun, merchandise manager for men’s and women’s wear at Printemps, said the revolving door scenario was a cyclical one and was amplified by the domino effect that every departure has on other houses.
“During the crisis, for two or three years, nobody moved,” he said. “Everyone was just ducking and waiting for the crisis to blow over by making as little noise as possible and hunkering down with their teams.”
The return of double-digit growth among many leading luxury brands has emboldened managers to give their labels a makeover, both in terms of strategy and creative talent, de Lalun said.
Lucian James, creative director and founder of Paris-based strategic consultancy Agenda Inc., agreed creative and business imperatives are in flux.
“The reason is that new sets of skills are being prioritized in an accelerated, fragmented fashion culture,” he explained. “In a social media-fueled landscape, a new breed of designer needs to operate more like commissioning editors, treating their brands as media channels that edit cultural themes, and manifest them as clothes. And while it seems new, interestingly it’s the same approach that drove Coco Chanel to success — an understanding that fashion wasn’t just clothes, it was about ideas and the culture that could be expressed as clothes.
“Designers are changing because consumers are changing; consumers want brands to inspire them with ideas, not just with advertising, and to tell them about the future, not just the past,” James added.
According to Robert Burke, president and chief executive officer of Robert Burke Associates in New York, the current game of musical chairs is likely to end with brands eclipsing the designers that eventually fill the empty seats.
“The last thing the brand wants is instability,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see lower-profile [hires] as opposed to major star designers.”
Naming Christophe Lemaire to succeed Jean Paul Gaultier at Hermès and designer-creative director tandems like Sébastien Peigné and Nicola Formichetti at Mugler are other examples of the antifame trend, concurred Printemps’ de Lalun.
“The market is recovering; it’s bringing back the energy and people think business could be even better,” de Lalun said. “It’s positive in the sense that it injects energy and a fresh vision. Having said that, hopefully things will not change every couple of years, because when a house changes its designer every two years, it’s very destabilizing.”
Liberty’s managing director Ed Burstell agreed. “Generally speaking, the overall merry-go-round of designers is not great for the industry. For a retailer, it’s really difficult to stand behind a brand that has a potentially changing designer,” he said. “A retailer wins by building a loyal rapport with its clientele, and you do that with consistency. It’s really difficult to establish that rapport when the consistency is not there. Look at the best brands. Take Burberry, for example. It has a consistent vision over time. Or Chanel. A consistent vision over time.”
Chloé has certainly weathered turbulence in its design studio since the 2006 exit of Philo. Before installing MacGibbon, one of Philo’s deputies, Chloé experimented with a team approach and three unfruitful seasons under Swedish designer Paulo Melim Andersson.
Waight Keller claimed to have helped transform Pringle over her six-year tenure “from a Scottish knitwear company to an international luxury brand.”
Before Pringle, Waight Keller was a senior women’s designer at Gucci during the Tom Ford era. Before that, she was design director for Ralph Lauren’s Purple Label men’s line. Her first job was as a women’s wear designer for Calvin Klein.
Floriane de Saint Pierre, who runs an eponymous executive search and consulting firm in Paris, said fashion firms must now face a “new world” of digital media and fast-growing emerging markets.
“Pure creativity is becoming equally important as the ability to manage creative talents at a global level,” she said. “In the past decade, we’ve seen designers become ‘creative directors.’ Now we are probably facing the need to have chief creative officers as creative partners of chief executive officers. This requires redesigning organizations.”
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Oh I feel bad for Hannah , but the Keller girl is also pretty good , her Pringle collections are pretty damn good , she is in the similar vein as Philo but with a bit of Givenchy thrown in. Phoebe Philo got some competition , I hate to say. I feel bad for Hannah though, she had some great pieces but her execution was odd at times.
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Great choice of them!
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