Fashion creative director appointments, exits and open seats
2023–2026 tracker of confirmed fashion house appointments, departures, successors, predecessors and first-collection context.
Updated: 31 August 2026
Appointment data last reviewed: 31 August 2026
Covers: 2023–2026
TheFashionDB separates confirmed appointments, departures, reported moves, vacancies and newly created roles. Speculative rumours are not listed as appointments until confirmed by a brand, company statement or reliable trade source.
Use it as a quick map of fashion’s ongoing creative reshuffle: confirmed appointments, exits, predecessors and previous roles, with links back to the brand and people pages where the longer history lives.
Appointments in 2026
Ib Kamara led Off-White’s post-Abloh creative phase from 2022 to 2026, first as art and image director and then as official creative director. His tenure expanded the brand’s visual world through styling, music, African references and New York-focused cultural staging.
August 31, 2026
Tapestry announced Jonathan Saunders as Executive Creative Director of Kate Spade New York on 21 July 2026, with his appointment effective 26 August. His remit spans product design and brand visual identity, placing one named creative leader across both areas.
August 26, 2026
Olivier Rousteing was appointed creative director of Rabanne in July 2026, succeeding Julien Dossena after his 13-year tenure. His arrival brings Balmain-scale image-making, celebrity fluency and a maximalist instinct to Puig’s metal-clad Paris house.
July 14, 2026
Pieter Mulier became Chief Creative Officer of Versace on 1 July 2026 under Prada Group. No Mulier-authored collection had been released by the 14 July research cutoff.
July 1, 2026
Julien Dossena led Rabanne from 2013 to 2026, reviving the house’s metallic futurism through sharp contemporary ready-to-wear, commercial discipline and a less museum-bound reading of Paco Rabanne’s archive.
June 24, 2026
Aeffe appointed Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo joint creative directors of Moschino with immediate effect on 21 June 2026. Their first collection had not yet been presented at the research cutoff, and conflicting pre-show schedule language should not be used to assign authorship in advance.
June 21, 2026
Moschino and Adrian Appiolaza ended their relationship with immediate effect on 19 June 2026. His final completed and presented collection was Autumn/Winter 2026–27; later retail attribution documents product circulation rather than continuing employment.
June 19, 2026
Isaac Mizrahi was named Target’s first creative director at large in June 2026, returning to the retailer more than fifteen years after his influential Isaac Mizrahi for Target line ended. The newly created role positions him as an adviser across Target’s internal design operation, with a brief spanning mentorship, product innovation, storytelling, partnerships and the broader restoration of Target’s design authority.
June 15, 2026
Carven appointed Kai Raffael Nesselrath Design Director on 8 June 2026 after his progression through Chanel and the Saint Laurent womenswear studio. His first Carven runway was announced for Spring/Summer 2027 in Paris.
June 8, 2026
Henry Zankov was appointed artistic director of Diane von Furstenberg on 27 May 2026 in a newly defined role overseeing the house’s collections and visual identity. Nathan Jenden remains creative director inside the design organisation and reports to Zankov, while Zankov continues to lead his independent namesake label.
May 27, 2026
Givenchy appointed Marco De Vincenzo head of leather goods design on 26 May 2026, working under Sarah Burton. The specialist role strengthens the current accessories structure without making him an independent creative director of the house.
May 26, 2026
Canali has appointed former Prada and Brunello Cucinelli menswear designer Alessio Lillocci as creative director, with his first collection set to debut for Spring 2027.
May 8, 2026
A.P.C. has appointed Ludivine Poiblanc as artistic director, drawing from her career as a stylist and creative director for titles including The Wall Street Journal Magazine and from advisory work on product and visual identity. She takes over after Jean and Judith Touitou’s long founder-led creative structure; Judith Touitou had been A.P.C.’s artistic director for nearly 30 years, while Jean Touitou founded the Paris label in 1987.
May 6, 2026
Carven announced on 2 April 2026 that Mark Howard Thomas would leave at the end of the month. Fall/Winter 2026 was his final runway, and Pre-Fall 2026 was released in May as his final designed collection for the house.
April 2, 2026
Courrèges announced Drew Henry as Artistic Director on 30 March 2026, effective in May. The appointment is his first public house leadership; no credited Courrèges collection or product had appeared by 15 July 2026.
March 30, 2026
Mulberry appointed Christopher Kane Creative Director of Women’s Ready-to-Wear on 26 March 2026. The limited remit restores seasonal womenswear and runway authorship while leaving leather goods and the wider product and image system under the internal Creative Studio.
March 26, 2026
Oakley has appointed Matthew M. Williams as creative director of apparel, footwear and accessories, signalling broader ambitions across performance and lifestyle.
March 26, 2026
Courrèges announced Nicolas Di Felice’s departure on 24 March 2026, twenty days after his final credited collection. No separately documented contractual last day was published.
March 24, 2026
Etro has no named creative director after Marco De Vincenzo’s mutually agreed exit, tied to a new strategic phase for the brand.
March 12, 2026
Nina Ricci has no named creative director after Harris Reed departed for his own label, Harris Reed.
March 11, 2026
Appointments in 2025
Versace announced on 4 December 2025 that Dario Vitale would leave by mutual decision, with his departure effective on 12 December.
December 4, 2025
7 For All Mankind appointed Nicola Brognano creative director, introducing a named designer-led programme focused on denim, ready-to-wear and a more visible seasonal image.
December 3, 2025
Monse released a four-item Wicked: For Good capsule in November 2025. The project connected the brand’s fashion vocabulary with a film property through a compact retail collaboration.
November 17, 2025
<p>Vivienne Westwood released a NANA capsule on 13 November 2025 for the manga’s twenty-fifth anniversary. The project formalised a long cultural association between Ai Yazawa’s characters and Westwood clothing and jewellery through a dedicated commercial collaboration.</p>
November 13, 2025
6397 and Creative Growth Art Center staged an artist-led runway fundraiser at The NEWS on 30 October 2025. Artists customised 6397 garments for immediate sale, with all proceeds supporting Creative Growth; the collaboration later extended to Japanese distribution.
October 30, 2025
Rizzoli published The Misadventures of KidSuper on 21 October 2025, a 240-page visual autobiography and design chronicle authored by Dillane. The book consolidates the brand’s fashion, art, performance and studio history without establishing a separate KidSuper publishing imprint.
October 21, 2025
Hermès appointed Grace Wales Bonner Creative Director of Men’s Ready-to-Wear on 21 October 2025. Her first Hermès collection is scheduled for January 2027.
October 21, 2025
Bosideng appointed Kim Jones as creative director (premium line Areal). Joined from Dior. The role was newly created.
October 20, 2025
Hermès announced on 17 October 2025 that Véronique Nichanian would present her final men’s ready-to-wear collection in January 2026, closing a tenure begun in 1988.
October 17, 2025
Jil Sander revived its historical PUMA programme with King Avanti on 14 October 2025 under Simone Bellotti. K-Street followed in April 2026, confirming a continuing collaboration rather than an isolated anniversary product.
October 14, 2025
Charvet developed specialist shirting for Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 debut on 6 October 2025 and worked with Chanel again for Cruise 2026/27 in Biarritz. The repeated collaboration established a direct creative relationship between the two houses before Chanel acquired Charvet in July 2026.
October 6, 2025
Kim Bekker was publicly confirmed as Creative Director of Isabel Marant on 1 October 2025, formalising a succession developed over several seasons.
October 1, 2025
Stephen Jones created millinery for the Spring/Summer 2026 HANNAH collection and later made a bespoke white satin riding hat for Gabbriette’s 2026 wedding. The repeated specialist credit establishes a continuing millinery relationship without assigning Jones authorship of the clothing.
September 30, 2025
Maison Kitsuné appointed Abigail Smiley-Smith creative director on 25 September 2025, restoring formal principal fashion leadership after the studio-led interval. Her remit covers menswear and womenswear and has placed textile development, refined tailoring and craft-focused product at the centre of the current house direction.
September 25, 2025
Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia announced their departure from Oscar de la Renta on 17 September 2025, with Fall 2026 set as their final main season. Their atelier work ended in February 2026, closing the creative mandate while some shareholder and board-level connection to the company continued.
September 17, 2025
Christian Louboutin appointed Jaden Smith as creative director (Men's). The role was newly created.
September 17, 2025
Monse reworked Sperry’s Authentic Original boat shoe into platform-lug and translucent-jelly forms for its Spring/Summer 2026 runway. The collaboration reached retail in March 2026 and became the label’s clearest footwear-category expansion to date.
September 14, 2025
Willy Vanderperre photographed the black-and-white campaign that introduced Boloria before its first collection. The images used concealed faces, tailored silhouettes and restrained layouts to give the new house an immediate institutional identity.
September 9, 2025
Boloria publicly announced Olivier Theyskens as creative director on 9 September 2025. His position formalised a founding creative partnership developed with WEAREONE.world, although public records do not confirm a legal co-founder title or equity stake.
September 9, 2025
Proenza Schouler appointed Rachel Scott creative director on 2 September 2025. She continued to lead Diotima while taking responsibility for the house’s next creative chapter.
September 2, 2025
Riccardo Bellini became Valentino’s chief executive on 1 September 2025 after serving as managing director of Mayhoola. His mandate places the house’s turnaround and Kering–Mayhoola integration alongside Alessandro Michele’s current creative programme.
September 1, 2025
Henry Zankov worked with Nathan Jenden and the DVF studio on a 26-piece Fall 2025 capsule. Pre-orders began through Bergdorf Goodman on 27 August, followed by retail release and a broader DVF launch in September, creating a finite collaboration months before Zankov’s formal house appointment.
August 27, 2025
The Tata CLiQ Luxury partnership extended Fine Jewellery distribution during Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s continuing creative direction and Manish Chopra’s executive leadership.
August 21, 2025
Jacopo Venturini stepped down as Valentino’s chief executive on 13 August 2025 by mutual agreement. The house cited personal reasons; the record does not attribute the departure to the company’s financial pressure or the Valentino Bags Lab court administration.
August 13, 2025
ERDOS marked its seventeen-year partnership with Gilles Dufour in July 2025 and granted him an honorary artistic-director certificate. The honour closed the active phase of one of the designer’s longest house relationships.
July 29, 2025
The Harrods residency extended the jewellery division through a temporary international private-client presentation and did not establish a permanent concession.
July 21, 2025
Marni appointed Meryll Rogge creative director on 15 July 2025, following Francesco Risso’s departure. She retained her independent namesake label and B.B. Wallace as separate businesses while assuming authority over Marni’s clothing, accessories, image and special projects.
July 15, 2025
Pierpaolo Piccioli is reworking Balenciaga’s sack, cocoon and gazar traditions through colour, lightness, eveningwear and a more openly human account of couture labour.
July 10, 2025
Chopra’s appointment formalised the separation between executive management and founder-led creative direction during the house’s ABFRL-majority-owned period.
July 1, 2025
Pangaia appointed Kevin Grandal as creative director. Joined from 1017 ALYX 9SM. The appointment followed internal restructuring.
July 1, 2025
OTB announced Francesco Risso’s departure from Marni on 18 June 2025. The announcement ended his creative directorship after Fall/Winter 2025 Vol. 2, although the exact day on which his operational studio authority ceased remains unverified.
June 18, 2025
Bikkembergs partnered with Gosha Rubchinskiy on a reissue of the Soccer sneaker for Spring/Summer 2026. Presented at Pitti Uomo 108 in June 2025, the collaboration retained the archival lace-guard and studded sole while adding Cyrillic co-branding.
June 17, 2025
FAF and KEEN released their first collaboration on 13 June 2025 around the UNEEK WK footwear model. The project extended FAF’s utility-oriented design language into a dedicated technical footwear partnership.
June 13, 2025
Dior confirmed Maria Grazia Chiuri’s departure on 29 May 2025 after the Resort 2026 presentation in Rome. The announcement closed a nine-year women’s tenure before Jonathan Anderson’s expanded mandate.
May 29, 2025
Khy x Dilara Findikoglu was released on 28 May 2025. The project translated Findikoglu’s corsetry and fitted silhouette language for Khy’s larger direct-to-consumer audience and continued the label’s post-2023 use of commercial collaborations alongside the mainline.
May 28, 2025
Appointments in 2024
Boiler Room, BEAMS T and FAF released a twelve-item capsule on 20 December 2024 with a launch event at BEAMS T Harajuku. The project returned FAF to the music-and-nightlife context of its origins while working through a larger retail and media platform.
December 20, 2024
Kering announced Matthieu Blazy’s succession by Louise Trotter on 12 December 2024. The date marks the public transition, while Blazy’s effective final day remains unresolved and his final runway and final public release stay in the Collections chronology.
December 12, 2024
Bottega Veneta announced Louise Trotter as its next Creative Director on 12 December 2024. Kering stated that she would join at the end of January 2025, so the announcement is kept separate from her operational start.
December 12, 2024
Chanel announced Matthieu Blazy as artistic director of fashion activities on 12 December 2024. The appointment gave him authority across couture, ready-to-wear and accessories, with an effective studio start delayed until April 2025.
December 12, 2024
Maison Margiela announced the end of John Galliano’s tenure on 11 December 2024. His final runway collection had been the Spring/Summer 2024 Artisanal presentation beneath Pont Alexandre III, closing a decade in which couture became the house’s principal research and image-making engine.
December 11, 2024
Dries Van Noten appointed Julian Klausner creative director for womenswear and menswear in December 2024. Klausner had joined the studio in 2018 and led womenswear before assuming responsibility for the house’s collections and wider brand identity.
December 9, 2024
Helmut Lang announced Peter Do’s departure on 13 November 2024, with his employment ending at the close of the month. Pre-Fall 2025 remained identified in departure reporting as his final designed commercial collection and reached the public after the studio handoff.
November 13, 2024
Alberta Ferretti appointed Lorenzo Serafini as creative director. Joined from Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini. Replaced Alberta Ferretti.
October 15, 2024
Missoni appointed Alberto Caliri as creative director. The appointment followed internal restructuring. Replaced Filippo Grazioli.
October 3, 2024
Celine announced Hedi Slimane’s departure on 2 October 2024, closing a tenure that had expanded the house into menswear, in-house fragrance, bespoke leather goods, beauty and a highly controlled retail-image system.
October 2, 2024
Celine named Michael Rider as Hedi Slimane’s successor, effective early 2025. Rider’s earlier decade in Phoebe Philo’s studio made the appointment a return to the house as well as a change in leadership.
October 2, 2024
Zimmermann used material from Albert Falzon’s 1970s surf film Morning of the Earth with permission for Spring 2025 Illumination. Falzon’s role was tied to the film and its authorised use, with collection design remaining under Nicky Zimmermann.
September 30, 2024
ERDEM worked with the Edward Sexton tailoring house on the tailoring for Spring/Summer 2025, presented on 15 September 2024. The credit belongs to the Savile Row house and reflects a technical partnership around structured menswear-informed tailoring.
September 15, 2024
Sarah Burton became creative director of Givenchy women’s and men’s collections on 9 September 2024. By 12 July 2026 she had presented three women’s runways and one public menswear collection; no official seasonal Givenchy couture collection under her direction had been confirmed.
September 9, 2024
<p>Palace and Vivienne Westwood released a global capsule in September 2024 spanning clothing, accessories, jewellery and skateboards. The project brought Westwood archive references into Palace’s skatewear vocabulary as a finite collaboration.</p>
September 6, 2024
Y/Project publicly announced Glenn Martens’s departure on 6 September 2024. The chronology does not prove that his exit caused the company’s insolvency or that insolvency caused the departure; no interim creative director or authorised studio successor was documented.
September 6, 2024
Uniqlo appointed Clare Waight Keller as creative director. The appointment followed internal restructuring.
September 4, 2024
Haider Ackermann became Tom Ford creative director on 4 September 2024, responsible for menswear, womenswear, accessories and the wider brand vision. Based in Paris, he shifted the house from literal founder-era continuity toward precise tailoring, saturated colour and restrained sensuality.
September 4, 2024
Dilara Findikoglu x Heaven by Marc Jacobs was released on 31 July 2024. The collaboration extended Findikoglu’s corsetry, distressed surfaces and dark romantic styling into Marc Jacobs’s youth-focused Heaven platform and formed part of the commercial work supporting the independent studio after the SS24 show cancellation.
July 31, 2024
Blumarine appointed David Koma Creative Director on 31 July 2024. His first proposal was Pre-Fall 2025, followed by a first runway for Fall/Winter 2025–26; he continues the appointment alongside his independent label.
July 31, 2024
Tom Ford announced Peter Hawkings’s immediate departure on 22 July 2024 after a brief succession tenure. The studio completed the Spring/Summer 2025 womenswear delivery while the company prepared a new external appointment.
July 22, 2024
Mugler and Gentle Monster launched the Spiral 01 and Spiral 02 eyewear styles on 18 July 2024, joining Cadwallader’s spiral construction to a reference from the 1997 Les Insectes archive. The campaign involved Theo Liu, Colin Jones and Georgia Palmer. It was a two-style collaboration rather than evidence of continuous in-house eyewear manufacture.
July 18, 2024
SHEIN X MONSE combined a mass-market capsule with a mentorship programme led by Kim and Garcia for five independent designers. The project expanded Monse’s collaboration model into teaching and high-volume retail while remaining separate from the house’s core collection structure.
July 17, 2024
Lanvin announced Peter Copping as Artistic Director on 27 June 2024, effective from September. His mandate covers women’s and men’s collections and remains active at the research cutoff.
June 27, 2024
Kate Spade New York and HEINZ launched a joint capsule on 26 June 2024 spanning bags, small leather goods, clothing, footwear and accessories. Jennifer Lyu discussed the design direction in her role as SVP and Head of Design, connecting the collaboration to the final phase of her accessories leadership.
June 26, 2024
KidSuper and Cirque du Soleil collaborated on the Spring/Summer 2025 presentation at Le Trianon in Paris, combining a co-branded capsule with live circus performance. The project used performance as an integrated seasonal design framework rather than a standalone entertainment booking.
June 22, 2024
A G-Star RAW collaboration within Spring/Summer 2025 introduced glue-bonded, stitchless denim construction. The project used industrial material knowledge to develop new garment assembly rather than applying a co-branded surface to existing shapes.
June 19, 2024
Chanel announced Virginie Viard’s departure on 5 June 2024, ending her tenure as artistic director of fashion collections. The house did not name an immediate successor and transferred authorship to the Fashion Creation Studio.
June 5, 2024
Calvin Klein appointed Veronica Leoni as Creative Director of Collection on 30 May 2024. Her remit is the Collection line, not the Calvin Klein mainline as a whole.
May 30, 2024
Canada Goose appointed Ackermann as its first creative director on 15 May 2024. Based in Paris and working alongside chairman and CEO Dani Reiss, he introduced the recurring Snow Goose platform while the exact extent of his authority over the mainline remained publicly undefined.
May 15, 2024
Zimmermann opened Escape with Zimmermann at Le Bon Marché in Paris on 27 April 2024, combining an immersive installation with an exclusive wardrobe, accessories and souvenirs. The project also included product collaborations with Trudon and Standard Procedure and ran through August 2024.
April 27, 2024
Jeffrey Kalinsky worked his final day at Theory on 12 April 2024 after giving notice on 29 March. His exit ended the combined merchant-and-creative leadership role, and the brand subsequently operated through its named womenswear and menswear category heads.
April 12, 2024
ADERERROR and Bang & Olufsen released The Blueism in 2024 around a Z-Blue Beosound A1. A circular leather bag made the speaker wearable, an aluminium stand changed its domestic placement, and a Seoul installation with Nils Völker joined product design to sound and kinetic space.
April 10, 2024
Lanvin Lab documented Erwin Wurm’s Desire on 10 April 2024 as the platform’s next art chapter. The touring sculpture project extended the programme beyond clothing without making Wurm a fashion director or turning the work into a seasonal collection.
April 10, 2024
Bulgari appointed Mary Katrantzou as creative director (leather and accessories). The role was newly created. Joined from Mary Katrantzou.
April 2, 2024
Valentino announced Alessandro Michele as creative director on 28 March 2024, with responsibility for womenswear, menswear, haute couture and accessories effective 2 April. His appointment introduced a rapid archival and visual reset after Piccioli’s departure.
March 28, 2024
Pierpaolo Piccioli and Valentino announced the end of their collaboration on 22 March 2024. The departure closed a continuous twenty-five-year relationship spanning accessories, joint creative direction and his solo tenure.
March 22, 2024
Barry Otto’s drawings were incorporated into the Fall 2024 In Illustration collection and translated into its print language alongside authorised imagery from 1920s fashion magazines. The contribution was bounded to artwork used within the season.
March 4, 2024
Appointments in 2023
Rochas appointed Alessandro Vigilante as creative director. Joined from Gucci. Replaced Charles de Vilmorin.
December 4, 2023
Tod’s appointed Matteo Tamburini creative director of women’s and men’s collections on 1 December 2023. He remains in the role through the research cutoff, directing a unified system with separate seasonal presentation calendars.
December 1, 2023
Givenchy announced Matthew M. Williams’s departure on 30 November 2023, effective at the end of the year. The employment endpoint is distinct from the timing of his final commercial deliveries.
November 30, 2023
Y/Project appointed Pascal Conte-Jodra operational chief executive on 22 November 2023 with a remit spanning growth, international distribution, sustainability and work with Glenn Martens. On the same date, IN-CARNATION converted from an SARL to an SAS without creating a new legal person, introduced president, directoire and supervisory-board structures, and appointed Gilles Elalouf company president; Conte-Jodra left during summer 2024.
November 22, 2023
Blumarine appointed Walter Chiapponi as creative director. Joined from Tod's. Replaced Nicola Brognano.
November 1, 2023
Bonpoint and Khaite released a limited eleven-piece childrenswear capsule in October 2023 for ages ranging from three months to ten years. The project translated Khaite’s wardrobe into a bounded collaboration and did not establish a permanent Khaite childrenswear line.
October 30, 2023
Burberry announced a Winter 2023 footwear collaboration with Tricker’s on 30 October 2023. Burberry supplied the design and the Northampton shoemaker supplied specialist manufacture, demonstrating category collaboration without turning Tricker’s into a division or assigning factory authorship to Lee.
October 30, 2023
Pilati became the inaugural guest of Friends of Fendi, a finite project initiated by Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini Fendi. The Winter 2023–24 collection crossed men’s and women’s wardrobes and received its official commercial release on 26 October 2023.
October 26, 2023
Blumarine and Nicola Brognano ended their collaboration after four years.
October 19, 2023
Aeffe announced Davide Renne as Moschino creative director on 16 October 2023, with responsibility for women’s, men’s and accessories. His effective start was set for 1 November and his planned debut for February 2024.
October 16, 2023
Fecal Matter contributed bespoke costume designs to the Friedrichstadt-Palast grand show Falling in Love, which premiered in Berlin on 11 October 2023. Jean Paul Gaultier led the production’s visual design direction, making the commission a project-specific stage relationship within the founders’ wider fashion practice.
October 11, 2023
Richemont announced that Chemena Kamali joined Chloé as creative director on 9 October 2023. Her current programme draws across the founder era, both Lagerfeld periods, late-1990s tailoring and early-2000s accessories without reducing the house to a single revival.
October 9, 2023
Axiom Space and Prada announced a technical collaboration on the AxEMU lunar spacesuit on 4 October 2023. Prada contributed material and product-development expertise to the outer and inner layers, producing an engineering project rather than a fashion collection or extension of runway authorship.
October 3, 2023
Alexander McQueen announced Seán McGirr as creative director on 3 October 2023, following Sarah Burton’s final collection. The announcement preceded his effective start in December.
October 3, 2023
After earlier Nike customisation and project work, Feng Chen Wang launched a formal Nike apparel collection on 28 September 2023. The range translated the label’s modular construction into performance clothing, led by a transformable jacket designed for extensive reconfiguration.
September 28, 2023
Moschino divided its fortieth-anniversary runway into four ten-look chapters by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Lucia Liu and Katie Grand. The one-season guest mandate made the temporary distribution of authorship explicit while the house remained without a permanent creative director.
September 21, 2023
Lelio Gavazza became chief executive of TOM FORD FASHION in September 2023 with responsibility for collection development, merchandising, production, retail and wholesale. He leads the Zegna-operated fashion business and is one of Haider Ackermann’s two reporting principals, alongside TOM FORD President and CEO Guillaume Jesel.
September 18, 2023
Alexander McQueen announced the end of Sarah Burton’s tenure on 11 September 2023. Her departure concluded a twenty-six-year relationship with the house and preceded her final runway collection later that month.
September 11, 2023
Poet Ocean Vuong contributed text to the Spring/Summer 2024 Helmut Lang project under Peter Do. The literary collaboration became part of the debut season’s language and image system alongside Do’s clothing direction.
September 8, 2023
Tremaine Emory resigned as Supreme creative director, publicly citing systemic racism and disputes over a shelved project.
August 30, 2023
Peter Do designed a twenty-eight-piece Banana Republic capsule for Autumn 2023 using archive references, transformable tailoring and utility clothing. The project carried the studio’s modular wardrobe into a broad retail system and appeared selectively inside the Spring/Summer 2024 runway styling.
August 15, 2023
Fiorucci appointed Francesca Murri as artistic director. The appointment followed internal restructuring.
August 2, 2023
Zegna signed a new fragrance licence with Give Back Beauty on 26 July 2023. The agreement established the operator behind the current fragrance phase and the later Memorie collection.
July 26, 2023
Tod’s announced on 12 July 2023 that Walter Chiapponi would leave by mutual agreement after presenting Spring–Summer 2024 womenswear. Public creative work continued through the final runway on 22 September.
July 12, 2023
Chloé confirmed on 6 July 2023 that Gabriela Hearst would leave after presenting Spring/Summer 2024. The final show took place on 28 September, closing her creative-director tenure while the house retained the institutional systems developed during it.
July 6, 2023
Rei Kawakubo’s first brief led Yamamoto towards the double-foot derby of SS24, developed through direct conceptual dialogue and KIDS LOVE GAITE shoemaking. The relationship continued through AW24, SS25, AW25, SS26, AW26 and the completed SS27 presentation, producing projecting soles, ruffles, broken combat forms and double-layer uppers alongside commercial double-branded releases.
June 23, 2023
Hiroaki Sueyasu began working with Hizume for KIDILL SS24, giving the milliner collection themes and materials while leaving substantial latitude over the finished hats. The relationship continued through at least SS27 and developed from individual hats into reconstructed sculptural objects embedded in KIDILL’s runway language.
June 21, 2023
Ann Demeulemeester promoted Stefano Gallici from the menswear studio to creative director in June 2023. His appointment restored an internal design lead and introduced a more distressed, utility-led version of the house’s rock romanticism.
June 1, 2023
Appointed as design director following Rhuigi Villaseñor’s exit. Joined from Gucci.
May 31, 2023
Ludovic de Saint Sernin left Ann Demeulemeester in May 2023 after one collection. The departure ended one of the house’s shortest creative-director tenures and returned responsibility to the internal team.
May 21, 2023
Bally and Rhuigi Villaseñor parted ways in May 2023.
May 16, 2023
Helmut Lang announced Peter Do as creative director on 10 May 2023 with an effective start on 15 May. His remit covered women’s and men’s collections and ran through the end of November 2024, alongside continued leadership of his own label.
May 15, 2023
Mugler H&M launched globally on 11 May 2023 across women’s, men’s and accessories, combining Cadwallader’s spiral, illusion and body-conscious systems with remakes of founder-era designs. Torso directed the campaign film and a group of musicians reworked the house anthem. The collaboration’s menswear did not constitute the launch of continuous mainline Mugler menswear.
May 11, 2023
The Estée Lauder Companies appointed Guillaume Jesel president and chief executive of Tom Ford at the acquisition close. His mandate covers the overarching brand and coordination of its beauty, fashion and eyewear operators.
April 28, 2023
Peter Hawkings was appointed creative director at the acquisition close after seventeen years leading Tom Ford menswear. His remit covered womenswear, menswear, accessories and fashion shows until his departure on 22 July 2024.
April 28, 2023
Lanvin confirmed Bruno Sialelli’s departure on 14 April 2023 as part of a broader creative reorganisation. The change ended unified personal authority and introduced parallel studio and programme structures.
April 14, 2023
Dunhill appointed Simon Holloway as creative director. Joined from James Purdey & Sons. Replaced Mark Weston.
April 12, 2023
Charles de Vilmorin’s contract at Rochas ended on 31 March 2023.
March 31, 2023
Aeffe announced on 20 March 2023 that its agreement with Jeremy Scott would not be renewed. Moschino’s design office assumed creative direction effective April, while products from Scott’s final Autumn/Winter 2023–24 collection continued through the normal retail cycle.
March 20, 2023
For Fall 2023 Luminosity, Zimmermann adapted works associated with Australian artist Rupert Bunny through a relationship with the National Gallery of Victoria. The museum and historical artwork supplied a defined visual source for the collection. Nicky Zimmermann retained fashion authorship.
March 6, 2023
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