Global Luxury Fashion group Kering has appointed Actress and activist Emma Watson, Businessman Tidjane Thiam, and entrepreneur Jean Liu as Directors. The announcement was made earlier this week and marks its first steps in pursuing a new policy that focuses not only on diversity but also...

The House of Givenchy has found a successor for Clare Waight Keller and has appointed Matthew M. Williams as its Creative Director, effective June 16th, 2020. The 34-year-old American designer behind the cult label 1017 ALYX 9SM will take on all creative responsibilities for Women’s...

Italian Fashion editor and stylist Giovanna Battaglia Englebert is Swarovski’s first Global Creative Director. Marking the first time in its 125-year history, the appointment reflects the restructuring that comes with Swarovski family members Robert Buchbauer (CEO), Nadja Swarovski, and...

Johnny Coca has been named women’s fashion leather goods director at Louis Vuitton. On March 17, 2020, the Spanish-born designer had left Mulberry’s creative direction after an extremely successful five-year tenure. His appointment to the French fashion house is a real return to...

Valentino has appointed Jacopo Venturini as its new Chief Executive Officer. The Italian luxury brand who made the announcement on Tuesday said that effective June 1, 2020, Venturini will take over from Stefano Sassi. Sassi had been at the helm since 2006 just one year before Valentino...

Clare Waight Keller is leaving Givenchy. The British Designer is stepping down after three years as artistic director of the French fashion house. The announcement came this morning via statements on social media. ‘The House of Givenchy and Clare Waight Keller announce the end of their...

Johnny Coca is bidding farewell to Mulberry after 5 years as its creative director. The Spanish-born designer joined Mulberry in July 2015 replacing Emma Hill and oversaw the brands’ ready-to-wear, leather goods and accessories collections as well as the image and the evolution of...

Italian fashion house Prada has tapped Belgian designer Raf Simons as co-creative director with Miuccia Prada. The announcement came on Sunday at a press conference on the last day of Milan Fashion Week. Simons will work in partnership with Miuccia Prada from April 2, 2020, with equal...

Olivier Theyskens has been named artistic director of Azzaro The 43-year-old Franco-Belgian designer has been tapped by the French Fashion House and will lead it’s couture collections, ready-to-wear lines and women’s and men’s accessories. ‘Loris Azzaro left behind a...

French-German fashion designer Yolanda Zobel is officially leaving the House of Courreges. Her departure comes almost two years after she was named the artistic director of the French brand that was founded at the beginning of the 1960s by Andre and Coqueline Courreges. According to the...

Italian designer Walter Chiapponi has been appointed as the new Creative Director of Tod’s for womenswear and menswear. The Bottega Veneta designer replaces Andrea Incontri who had been creative director of menswear for the Italian luxury group since 2014. ‘Walter Chiapponi is a...

David Laport celebrated his fifth anniversary with the opening of a fashion exhibition Let’s Dance! at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, where his creations can be admired. A spectacular show was also held in Goes (a small city in The Netherlands from where the Dutch designer hails from)...

Demna Gvasalia is stepping down from Vetements the brand he co-founded five years ago. The 38-year-old Georgian-German designer is known for creating a fashion revolution with the brands’ oversized and voluminous aesthetic soon becoming mainstay. The label’s success was further...