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at least it's not Lindsay again
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The revolving door at Emanuel Ungaro (please put all Ungaro news here)
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I think if ANYONE is going to revive Ungaro, it is going to Alber Elbaz. A lot of people think that what he does is very LANVIN, but everytime I see a Elbaz collection I think UNGARO.
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Fausto Puglisi? 
Will there be a fashion show next week in Paris?
Will there be a fashion show next week in Paris?
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This is exciting! I can't wait to see what he'll do, but I predict some great results.
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Fausto Puglisi?
Will there be a fashion show next week in Paris?
No not next week, but next season according to the article.
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Ah I'm glad they're giving a young designer a go. At the very least I'm sure it can't be as bad as the Lohan/Archs disaster.
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Why did they fire Giles? I loved his second colection...
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Fausto Puglisi? Is this an absolute joke? All he's done is variations of the same dress with the same embellishment on repeat!
Did Anna Della Russo have something to do with this? Ungaro is a laughing stock, Dundas, Lindsey Lohan, Giles, and now the next random direction to go is Puglisi? How is he supposed to make Ungaro a profitable clothing brand when he can't even do a variation of different garments at his own?
Did Anna Della Russo have something to do with this? Ungaro is a laughing stock, Dundas, Lindsey Lohan, Giles, and now the next random direction to go is Puglisi? How is he supposed to make Ungaro a profitable clothing brand when he can't even do a variation of different garments at his own?
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How silly of me to think that the revolving door would stop turning for a few years. 
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All this. His style is 100% Milan, who thought he would be good choise for Ungaro? I wish they had hired a french designer like Maxime Simoens or even Alexandre Vauthier.
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Of course ADR is behind this...mostly because she is the one who put him into the fashion spotlight...he was basically a nobody before she started wearing his dresses
Btw I do not think he will feature his signature over embellished dresses but he will probably focus on the maison archives
Btw I do not think he will feature his signature over embellished dresses but he will probably focus on the maison archives
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Stefano Pilati should be there. He did a good job at YSL when he worked with prints, colors and ruffles.
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How about they just shutter it ...
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Law Roach has assembled a group of investors to buy the French fashion house Emanuel Ungaro
From Puck News:
There was much ado about Law Roach’s “retirement” from the world of celebrity styling more than two years ago. In the end, it meant nothing. Roach still has a lucrative arrangement with his top client, Zendaya, wherein he receives a percentage of her earnings on fashion-related projects. Otherwise, he’s been busy writing a book, appearing on multiple television shows, and adding clients back to his pruned roster, including up-and-comer Ryan Destiny and Ariana Grande.
However, it seems that Roach does have something unexpected in store: The image architect may soon become a brand proprietor. I’m told that Roach has assembled a group of investors to buy the French fashion house Emanuel Ungaro from Asim Abdullah, the Silicon Valley tech investor who acquired the brand for $84 million from the Ferragamo family in 2005. The Ferragamos had purchased a majority stake less than a decade earlier and enlisted a young Giambattista Valli to design it, but never managed to turn a profit. (Ungaro, the eponymous designer who founded the brand in 1965, died in 2019.)
Abdullah’s story is pretty extraordinary. As documentedby Cathy Horyn in The New York Times five years after the purchase, he bought Ungaro on a whim after growing bored with the tech industry that made him rich in the first place during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. “The fashion thing was not a planned event,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2007. “And even though I knew very little of it, I knew with a brand like Ungaro, I could refurbish it, and that I’d be able to do other things as well. It gives me a platform to build upon. I’m very committed to this business, but I see it as a stepping stone to other things.”
At the time, the dizzying prints that made Ungaro famous in the ’70s and ’80s were discordant with the ’60s-informed styles of the mid-aughts, best represented by Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga, Phoebe Philo, and others. Abdullah hired several ill-fated creative directors—from Peter Dundas to… Lindsay Lohan—and by 2010, there were already rumors that he was angling to sell. Twenty years since his purchase and nine designers in (a lot, even for the musical chairs era), Abdullah somehow still owns it, despite persistent speculation that he’s saddled with debt. In 2021, he contracted Israel-born, New York–based Kobi Halperin—whose namesake line performs well at stores like Saks Fifth Avenue on the contemporary floor—to design the collection. In 2021, Abdullah signed a 10-year deal with Inter Parfums to create and distribute fragrances. I hear the real value, though, is in the archives in Paris, which are robust.
Enter Roach, who has long been obsessed with Ungaro, and seems to have found some money to make this dream come true. I don’t know (yet) who is backing Roach, but it’s worth noting that he has worked with India’s Ambani family and has access to many people of that financial stature. If the deal goes through, Roach would own a majority stake in the business.
As for what his exact role will be, that’s still undecided. He may hire a new designer, he may design the collection himself; no matter what, he’ll have creative control. Not a giant leap, given that stylists like Roach often design red carpet garments in collaboration with the V.I.P. teams—and many stylists have gone on to be costume designers. (Never forget Rachel Zoe’s role in Harvey Weinstein’s ill-fated purchase of Halston.) But does Roach have the ability to make people care enough about Emanuel Ungaro for this to work? It’ll be tough, even with the right talent in place. The infrastructure needs to be there, too. Roach declined to comment when I called him. A representative for Ungaro and Abdullah did not respond to a request for comment. I’ll report back with more details soon.
From Puck News:
There was much ado about Law Roach’s “retirement” from the world of celebrity styling more than two years ago. In the end, it meant nothing. Roach still has a lucrative arrangement with his top client, Zendaya, wherein he receives a percentage of her earnings on fashion-related projects. Otherwise, he’s been busy writing a book, appearing on multiple television shows, and adding clients back to his pruned roster, including up-and-comer Ryan Destiny and Ariana Grande.
However, it seems that Roach does have something unexpected in store: The image architect may soon become a brand proprietor. I’m told that Roach has assembled a group of investors to buy the French fashion house Emanuel Ungaro from Asim Abdullah, the Silicon Valley tech investor who acquired the brand for $84 million from the Ferragamo family in 2005. The Ferragamos had purchased a majority stake less than a decade earlier and enlisted a young Giambattista Valli to design it, but never managed to turn a profit. (Ungaro, the eponymous designer who founded the brand in 1965, died in 2019.)
Abdullah’s story is pretty extraordinary. As documentedby Cathy Horyn in The New York Times five years after the purchase, he bought Ungaro on a whim after growing bored with the tech industry that made him rich in the first place during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. “The fashion thing was not a planned event,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2007. “And even though I knew very little of it, I knew with a brand like Ungaro, I could refurbish it, and that I’d be able to do other things as well. It gives me a platform to build upon. I’m very committed to this business, but I see it as a stepping stone to other things.”
At the time, the dizzying prints that made Ungaro famous in the ’70s and ’80s were discordant with the ’60s-informed styles of the mid-aughts, best represented by Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga, Phoebe Philo, and others. Abdullah hired several ill-fated creative directors—from Peter Dundas to… Lindsay Lohan—and by 2010, there were already rumors that he was angling to sell. Twenty years since his purchase and nine designers in (a lot, even for the musical chairs era), Abdullah somehow still owns it, despite persistent speculation that he’s saddled with debt. In 2021, he contracted Israel-born, New York–based Kobi Halperin—whose namesake line performs well at stores like Saks Fifth Avenue on the contemporary floor—to design the collection. In 2021, Abdullah signed a 10-year deal with Inter Parfums to create and distribute fragrances. I hear the real value, though, is in the archives in Paris, which are robust.
Enter Roach, who has long been obsessed with Ungaro, and seems to have found some money to make this dream come true. I don’t know (yet) who is backing Roach, but it’s worth noting that he has worked with India’s Ambani family and has access to many people of that financial stature. If the deal goes through, Roach would own a majority stake in the business.
As for what his exact role will be, that’s still undecided. He may hire a new designer, he may design the collection himself; no matter what, he’ll have creative control. Not a giant leap, given that stylists like Roach often design red carpet garments in collaboration with the V.I.P. teams—and many stylists have gone on to be costume designers. (Never forget Rachel Zoe’s role in Harvey Weinstein’s ill-fated purchase of Halston.) But does Roach have the ability to make people care enough about Emanuel Ungaro for this to work? It’ll be tough, even with the right talent in place. The infrastructure needs to be there, too. Roach declined to comment when I called him. A representative for Ungaro and Abdullah did not respond to a request for comment. I’ll report back with more details soon.
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A while ago I was going out of some runway show in Paris and was chit-chatting with Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist) and some friend of his. He invited me to join them for a beer or two and I replied I still had Barbara Bui's show on my schedule. He then said : "Come on, who cares about Barbara Bui?!".
A decade a half later you could easily replace this sentence by "Come on, who cares about Ungaro?!". Yep, who still gives a F to Ungaro and what's going to happen or not with a brand that doesn't mean anything anymore.
A decade a half later you could easily replace this sentence by "Come on, who cares about Ungaro?!". Yep, who still gives a F to Ungaro and what's going to happen or not with a brand that doesn't mean anything anymore.
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Law Roach is American and we know by now that a good story-telling is something an American can’t pass on.
The perspective of a black American owning a luxury French house is surely appealing. He then may be a creative director and have a designer work under him.
I dont know how a celebrity stylist may actually deep dive into it as fashion is a tough business.
It’s very expensive to run a fashion brand and sometimes, you may not even turn a profit. I just hope for him that he is more aware of the realities of that business than the story-telling aspect behind him buying the brand.
The perspective of a black American owning a luxury French house is surely appealing. He then may be a creative director and have a designer work under him.
I dont know how a celebrity stylist may actually deep dive into it as fashion is a tough business.
It’s very expensive to run a fashion brand and sometimes, you may not even turn a profit. I just hope for him that he is more aware of the realities of that business than the story-telling aspect behind him buying the brand.
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