The Belgian Fashion House has announced its new creative director and ‘it’s all in house’ as they say.
Julian Klausner, who is also Belgian, has worked side by side on the women’s collections and for six years with Dries Van Noten himself.
Alessandro Michele, the former creative director of Gucci, has been appointed as the creative director of the couture house Valentino. Michele stepped down from Gucci in November 2022 and the announcement ends much industry speculation about where he would go next.
From April 2nd, Alessandro will join the firm and begin work on the upcoming menswear, womenswear, and haute couture collections. His first work, which will be the Spring/Summer 2025 collection, will be presented in September in Paris during Fashion Week.
The Italian fashion designer died in Milan , just nine days after joining the famed Italian fashion house.
His death was confirmed by Aeffe, the parent group of Moschino. He apparently died of a heart attack after a brief hospitalization, according to people with knowledge of his condition.
“There are no words to describe the pain we are experiencing at this dramatic time,” Massimo Ferretti, the Aeffe chairman, said in a statement.
Italian Designer Sabato De Sarno has been chosen to lead the brand’s design studio, reporting to Marco Bizarri, President and CEO of Gucci, with responsibility for defining and expressing the company’s creative vision across the women’s, men’s, leather goods, accessories, and lifestyle collections.
His first collection will be out in September 2023, during Milan Women’s Fashion Week.
Maison VALENTINO has unveiled its FALL WINTER 2020-21 collection during Paris Fashion Week Men’s.
“Men are changing much more quickly in the last two decades because of women. And because of how work has changed.” noted the creative director of the brand, Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Guys these days should have no hang-ups about wearing coats and jackets stamped with photo prints or embroideries of flowers, Piccioli believes. Luxury for men and women is being dissolved into a median category. Valentino boys have segued seamlessly into carrying small cross-body bags. Some might be utility pouches, but others are indistinguishable from the mini-bags on chains that have been gendered as female for generations.
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Last Friday 11/5, Burberry sent social media into pandemonium with a collection of images from their Resort 2019 collection on their Instagram stories and feed.
The images are a first look at the brand through the eyes of its new chief creative officer Riccardo Tisci who took up the position in March replacing Christopher Bailey after 17 years.
The collection entitled – B Classic is a series of eight images that showcases and highlights the history of the brand. On his arrival at the house Tisci “wanted to celebrate the beauty, heritage and legacy that I discovered.” In doing this Tisci curated and styled the looks that were designed by the in-house team. This translated into a collection that is outerwear heavy and touches on Burberry iconography. The trench coat, the Harrington jacket, the car coat and cape in military green, brown and Horse ferry check came styled as his-and-hers outfits each couple photographed in loving embrace.
No new ground or trends are trends are being set here this is a collection made to keep Burberry in fashion conversation until Tisci’s official debut collection for the brand on Monday 17th September at 5pm. It does round off a 17-year era that Bailey championed Burberry and put the brand on the international fashion stage. This is a collection that nails the idea of fashion fluidity, the duality of clothes and gender flexibility of the dressing. It encapsulates the same spirit and joy Bailey showcased in his last show in February where he celebrated the LGBT+ community.
This gives us no indication of what Tisci has planned come September which makes the anticipation even more worth waiting for.
Discover highlights from the Autumn-Winter 2018 Maison Margiela Men’s Collection presented yesterday evening as part of Paris Fashion Week.
In his first menswear collection at Maison Margiela, creative director John Galliano joins together classic symbols of the men’s wardrobe by applying past and present house ideas into one forward proposal for a new glamour. interpretations of tailored pieces revitalize the classic form of menswear silhouettes.
