Who Will Succeed John Galliano At Dior? #1

[Label Basher]

God sometimes Olivier is such a d*ckhead. '' He seemed more surprised that we didn’t know'' Sorry we aren't as important as you that you know what's what before the offical announcement.

 

[neonsprinkles]

^ agreed.

Marc Jacobs will cheapen the Dior identity. In a way, the Dior identity is a heavy-handed, cultural/historical identity of France culture (post-WW2) that it can't simply hand it over to a "popular 21st century designer". I LOVE Marc Jacobs with his eccentricity, but he STILL has that American-up-town-NYC sensibility that does not translate very well to a French Fashion house that values it's historical identity (Dior's New look = a modernized take of 18th French century gowns).....

....I really hope I don't see Marc Jacobs at Dior. I'll still LOVE the entertainment and eccentricity, but as far as historical identity, the romance, the multi-culturalism, the respect for culture.....it's just so...Marc Jacobs = NO!!!!!!!!

 

[Dkammern]

So... Yves Carcelle is leaving Louis Vuitton!!

via FT

Yves Carcelle, chief executive of Louis Vuitton, will stand aside at the end of the next year to be replaced by Jordi Constans, a senior executive of Danone, the French yoghurt group.

If I had my money invested in LV i'd be nervous. Changing both the CEO and the designer who have defined the last successful decade of sales at the same time seems crazy!
I am not saying I believe in the good ol' "if soemthing works why change it"... but still, we are talking about the brand that gives the highest revenues in the whole group!!

 

[Melancholybaby]

Phoebe Philo as the designer and a yoghurt executive as CEO? The future holds major changes for LV and I don't think they're going to be good.

 

[Vitamine W]

So... Yves Carcelle is leaving Louis Vuitton!!


If I had my money invested in LV i'd be nervous. Changing both the CEO and the designer who have defined the last successful decade of sales at the same time seems crazy!
I am not saying I believe in the good ol' "if soemthing works why change it"... but still, we are talking about the brand that gives the highest revenues in the whole group!!

Hear hear. This is not a good sign.
Besides that, I agree with Marc being not suitable for Dior for many reasons. On top of that I don't think anybody can do 22 shows a year without compromising brand identity and quality. He will depend even more on gimmicks.
In all honesty I think only Theyskens would be able to pull it off at this point in time in the industry. He'd have the credibility amongst professionals and he has proven to be able to implement a sense of commerce @Theory. But LV will never listen to me. Bringing on Kim Jones as head of men design was only the beginning.

 

[JulienHSM]

I am purely speculating, but could it be possible that Yves Carcelle is leaving because of a disagreement with the LVMH team over this whole issue?
It could make sense that Yves Carcelle doesn't want MJ out of LV since he is bringing in so much money. But maybe he would be a little overreacting. I don't know, i'm just guessing.
What do ya'll think?

 

[JulienHSM]

So Franca is an attention w***e because she states her honest opinion, unlike most people in fashion who kiss their advertiser's as**s to no end, so they don't lose them? Funny how that works, but it is to be expected. Fashion now is all about politics (or more accurately political correctness). As for Jacobs, I'm not surprised he asks for that kind of money. Taking over Dior would mean he'll have to produce 22 collections a year including two couture ones, so there is much more work involved for him.

C'mon, the 'Slave earrings', the controversial editorials (in a bad way), featuring the ANTM winner on the cover, really? that's not begging for attention ?
But it's not the issue here...

 

[Vitamine W]

^^True on both accounts JulienHSM!

 

[Boomer]

I think he has a good point here- artistic, creative people being put under endless pressure and demands would generally not be a productive course of action...

JOHN GALLIANO'S former assistant Antonio Berardi believes there should be "some sort of care package" for designers, after seeing the pressure his former boss was put under. The pair worked together when Berardi was studying at Central Saint Martins in 1994.
"It's not just a case of you sitting down and designing, doing all those things you love in order to make your collection wonderful. [For Galliano and McQueen] it is a case of being trawled here, there and everywhere - do an opening there, a photo shoot there, do an interview here."
Berardi, who is this year up for the British Fashion Awards' Red Carpet accolade, described Galliano's dual personality.
"John would come out at the end of the catwalk show and people would think how confident he was," recalled the designer. "I think it was that part of his persona that kicked in for two minutes. Then he'd go back to being incredibly shy. Most of us [designers] are fragile creatures - even if we look theatrical and put on shows."


Vogue.uk

 

[JulienHSM]

LV Change Takes Jacobs by Surprise
By SUZY MENKES
The New York Times

But a source in Paris familiar with the situation who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations said the sticking point is that Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Duffy want to bring the entire Vuitton team to Dior, potentially creating a delicate situation both at the house of Dior and at a denuded Vuitton.

A senior media executive in New York, who also did not wish to go on the record for similar reasons, said he believed that Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive of LVMH, must have a master plan — otherwise it would be unthinkable to divest Vuitton of its chief executive and its designer at such a crucial moment in the luxury industry, with shaky financial markets and signs that the frantic growth in the top-end market is slowing.

In the announcement of the business changes, Mr. Arnault praised Mr. Carcelle for the growth of Vuitton since he took control in 1990.

that's a whole other issue. Well I don't get it, if he wants to bring everybody from LV to Dior, why doesnt he just stay at Lv?

 

[CholoChic]

^Dior house looks like the everybody´s dream...

 

[mackos]

Well I don't get it, if he wants to bring everybody from LV to Dior, why doesnt he just stay at Lv?

$$$, I guess?

 

[Label Basher]

the sticking point is that Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Duffy want to bring the entire Vuitton team to Dior, potentially creating a delicate situation both at the house of Dior and at a denuded Vuitton.

I was going to ask this pages back but thought I would look stupid so I didn't. Is this just about the management/creative people? It's not like you can get rid of the couture staff (who I assume also make the RTW items as well).

 

[Boomer]

Well I don't get it, if he wants to bring everybody from LV to Dior, why doesnt he just stay at Lv?

Might have something to do with $10,000,000.00/Yr??

 

[rui]

LVMH should hire Martin Margiela to design DIOR!

 

[Miss Dalloway]

This is getting so ridiculous, take your whole LV team? Give me a break, just stay at LV then!

 

[JulienHSM]

This is getting so ridiculous, take your whole LV team? Give me a break, just stay at LV then!

Agreed!
Who the heck does he think he is?
Just because he made LV kinda cool again doesn't make him some kind of superhero.
I think by the end of the week i'll be disliking MJ more than Formichetti!

Plus if he is talking about the creative team, they have never done couture at LV, neither did he. You want to bring a whole team + a creative director that never done it. C'mon !

 

[angel222]

This is turning into a debacle what everyone has posted is correct it's pointless to take a designer and his crew into a new clothing line. Especially a design team who hasn't produced couture clothing.

 

[Littleathquakes]

I hope they give in to him and I hope to see them fail.

 

[CholoChic]

^so the Dior petit mains will be fired?