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Idol previously ran Michael Kors through a major growth spurt as the brand transformed from small designer to a publicly traded force in the accessible luxury handbag market.

Now he’s taking direct control of a business in the midst of a major turnaround, while keeping his day job as chairman and CEO of parent company Capri Holdings, which also owns Versace and Jimmy Choo.

After 16 years as CEO of Michael Kors, Cedric Wilmotte is leaving the company. Philippa Newman will take on the role of chief product officer at Michael Kors following the changeover. As president of accessories and footwear, Newman has been with the brand for 14 years. Continue reading →

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For its 40th anniversary, the Fondation Cartier is pulling out all the stops because in 2025, it will set up shop at Place du Palais-Royal, swapping Boulevard Raspail to better anchor itself in the beating heart of Paris and the ghetto of the Lord of LVMH. Neighbors: the Louvre Museum, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Comédie-Française, the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, the Musée de l’Orangerie, the Jeu de Paume, the Opéra Garnier and the Musée d’Orsay, but especially the Samaritaine.

An architectural revolution led by Jean Nouvel, and setting up in such an impressive place, given its location and history, implies inventing something new or art nouveau.

Inside, 6,500 m² of exhibition spaces, 1,200 m² of mobile platforms, verticalities that rise up to 11 meters. A playground that lives up to the ambitions of the Foundation, which is celebrating 40 years.

The French fashion house has chosen British actor Callum Turner as its brand ambassador. On and off screen, he exudes an authentic and endearing charisma while his elegant clothing choices have earned him notable stylistic popularity, notably in Doctor Frankenstein.

Turner starred in the mini-series “Masters of the Air” probably for the wind of Vuitton creation. But with headlines for his relationship with pop star Dua Lipa. Just like Montespan, and her husband, the most famous cuckold in France, we rehabilitate supermarket whores, gold diggers.

As a teenager, he was a model and then worked as a salesman at Dover Street Market in London, a real experience to work at Vuitton. Last year, he appeared in a campaign for luxury brand Montblanc, and he’s been a front-row guest at fashion shows for brands like Tom Ford and Burberry—a real experience that even my concierge has.

This season, LITKOVSKA introduces ZHNYVA – «harvest» in Ukrainian – symbolizing the gathering of the brand’s achievements over the past 15 years. This collection reflects the concept of reaping what has been sown: a cycle of creation, reflection, and renewal, celebrating the brand’s history and its ongoing evolution.

Cédric Charbit, new CEO of Balenciaga at Saint Laurent Gianfranco Gianangeli, former CEO of Maison Margiela and currently commercial director of YSL, succeeds Cédric Charbit at Balenciaga.

A return to Saint Laurent for Cédric Charbit, who was executive vice president of product and marketing when he took over at Balenciaga eight years ago, a year after creative director Demna.

Once at the helm of Saint Laurent, he will have to face a revival of sales momentum against a backdrop of slowing luxury sales, particularly in China, and as inflation and high interest rates weigh on discretionary spending worldwide.

Prior to YSL, Charbit was deputy general manager at Emilio Pucci. Previously, the Frenchman held senior roles in retail – as general merchandise director for womenswear at Harrods in London and Printemps in Paris. A graduate of ESC Toulouse, he is appreciated for his fashion instinct and his complicity with designers.

Matthieu Blazy, Chanel’s next artistic director? Chanel is no longer looking to find a new artistic director for fashion because it has found it after that negotiations with the prince of clubbing have failed. The French house, which is now English, plans to announce in June the successor to Virginie Viard, who left the house after five years.

A anonymous source said that Matthieu Blazy, who made Bottega Veneta one of the hottest tickets in Milan, has emerged as a new contender for the top job in Paris.

A Chanel spokeswoman said a new creative organization would be announced “in due course” after interviews with Pieter Mulier, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Jeremy Scott and Marc Jacobs.

He succeeded Daniel Lee as artistic director of Bottega Veneta in November 2021 after moving from a ready-to-wear designer.

Following the death of Karl Lagerfeld in February 2019, Chanel Fashion has been without a creative head since Virginie Viard stepped down in June after more than three decades at the house. Chanel’s spring 2025 collection was designed by an in-house team.

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Is it a couture presentation or a J LO show ? In any case for the thousand and one seasons of Elie Saab, Paris Fashion Week, now, seems to me a bit outdated against Riyadh which is putting the means to implement its policy and thus decentralizing the Fashion Week from the Occident to Orient. Normal for Paris where the Fashion Week is organized by dorky persons. But maybe this will give new ideas to these gentlemen of the family for their future presentations.

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Chantal Gaemperle, LVMH’s Human Resources Director for the past seventeen years, has just been laid off for serious misconduct. The ousting of this protege of the lord has caused an uproar within the group, half of whose Comex is up for renewal, and confirms to the latter that only his family can be trusted.

Chantal Gaemperle, Group HR Director for 17 years, “was escorted from her eighth-floor office to the door of the 22 Montaigne headquarters by Group security guards”. The dismissal comes after an internal investigation lasting several months by the General Administration and Legal Affairs teams, who were particularly interested in the accumulation of benefits in kind received from the Group’s 75 companies (Louis Vuitton, Dior, Moët Hennessy, etc.). Chantal Gaemperle, 62, was also a member of the LVMH Executive Committee. Continue reading →

In Occoquan, Virginia, local authorities asked Andre Soriano, a sort of “Liberace copycat,” to remove 11 pro-Donald Trump signs from the exterior of his building. A four-story building houses Soriano’s store on the ground floor and his residence on the second floor.

His Trump signs, flags, and dress offended a woman who walked into the store looking for him. The designer, who had created a gown imprinted with the Trump-inspired slogan “Make America Great Again” for the 2017 Grammys for Joy Villa,

After the individual, whose name he never asked, complained to town officials, Soriano was told to remove them.Soriano placed a “Women for Trump” sign in his store window, sparing him a violation.

On the other hand, the 10 other signs that he had moved to the second floor were not compliant with the town’s ordinance that signs on residential properties not exceed 8 feet x 8 feet. As a result, it does not violate the First Amendment.It violates the size, material, and location of a historic district in this case.

Originally from the Philippines, the 54-year-old designer moved to the U.S. at the age of 15 and became a citizen the following year. I don’t really care whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican. I do care about being an American. Let me exercise my First Amendment right,” he said. Continue reading →

Bottega Veneta’s new fragrance collection, comprised of five scents, was designed to be the very essence of the house. This is the first major product launch unveiled by Kering Beauté since the division launched in January 2023.

The fragrances were developed under the creative direction of Bottega Veneta designer Matthieu Blazy. Refined ingredients and artisanal know-how go into each fragrance, which helps expand the fashion brand’s universe, “but chemical all the same.”!

The refillable bottles that recall the mouth-blown creations in Murano glass, and why Pompeii., but you will try to produce 100,000 bottles by hand, it will take you several years.

Undulating shapes that recall the Belle de Ricci, evoke the Venetian lagoon without the gigantic boats that cross it. The bottles rest on marble bases that have been used for centuries in Venice to build palaces, and are used in Bottega Veneta boutiques.

Notes of Italian bergamot and French iris butter; Acqua Sale, with notes of Spanish labdanum and Macedonian juniper oil; Colpo di Sole, with notes of French angelica oil and Moroccan orange blossom absolute; Alchemie, with notes of Brazilian pink pepper and Somali myrrh, and Déjà Minuit, with notes of Madagascar geranium and Guatemalan cardamom, all a program. Continue reading →

The more madmen there are, the more dangerous it is to laugh. Proverbs are the prophets of the professionals of prophecy. The majority of luxury brands are truly “bullshiters”, and to denounce this, the shoe company Payless, which are not of very high quality, but of good quality nonetheless, decided to do a little test in 2018: Open a new store by making believe that it is a luxury brand, and this, by selling the same shoes. This new store is located in the middle of Los Angeles, with an adequate luxury decoration. Thus, the trap will close.

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Dior has announced the restoration of Venice’s Porta Magna, underscoring its ties to Venice. The answer to the Prince of Venice, its direct competitor Pinault.

In April, the French fashion house announced that it was collaborating with the Venetian Heritage Foundation on a charity ball to help fund the restoration work on the monument and ongoing renovations to the Ca’ d’Oro museum.

It has now revealed the first images of the imposing gate located in the Venetian Arsenal, a complex of former shipyards and armories. A sculpture of the Lion of St. Mark, emblem of the Venetian Republic, crowns the mid-15th-century building.
Hoping that this will be the stargate for the group, The Lord and the Temptation of Venice quite a program!