Kering and Bottega Veneta are delighted to announce the appointment of Louise Trotter as Creative Director.Formerly Creative Director of Carven, she is renowned for her meticulous approach to craftsmanship. She will join Bottega Veneta at the end of January 2025.

Thus, Chanel will be able to give the information that Matthieu Blazy will become the creator of the Coco brand, as announced in our magazines a few weeks ago.

The Sunderland-born designer studied marketing and design at Newcastle Polytechnic. She then moved to the US to work as Vice President of Womenswear Design at Gap in New York. She then became Head of Womenswear at Calvin Klein, before taking on a design role at Tommy Hilfiger. Continue reading →

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The Alexander McQueen brand is the subject of a tax probe by Italian authorities, Kering announced on Monday. Kering and the company are confident that their operating mode is correct and are pursuing these discussions constructively, it said.

Italy’s financial police allege that Alexander McQueen failed to declare between 60 million euros and 70 million euros in taxable income between 2016 and 2022, leading Florence prosecutors to open an investigation.

To settle an investigation into Gucci’s tax payments related to its Italy sales between 2011 and 2017, the conglomerate paid the Italian Revenue Agency a total of 1.25 billion euros in 2019. Italian tax authorities claim Kering intentionally avoided Italian taxes by directly operating a Swiss subsidiary named Luxury Goods International to distribute Gucci products in Italy. Continue reading →

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Although Chanel never visited Hangzhou, the Chinese city dubbed “heaven on earth,” she was fascinated by black lacquer. China tops the list of countries producing counterfeit and pirated goods.

A collection that brings together the intricate skills of more than 100 artisans from the house’s subsidiary subsidiaries, including embroiderers, feather workers, florists, goldsmiths, pleaters, shoemakers, hatters, milliners, glove makers and tanners, was designed by the studio team and depicts the fictional life of a traveler, perhaps modeled on Coco herself, a journey not to Germany, but to China. Continue reading →

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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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