Introduction
Natacha Ramsay-Levi is a French designer born in Paris in 1980 who led Chloé from 2017 to 2020. Her tenure followed years spent in senior roles alongside Nicolas Ghesquière, and it placed her inside one of Paris fashion’s key houses for modern femininity.
She matters in Chloé’s chronology because she redirected the brand towards a sharper and more articulate wardrobe. The row links her to equestrian references and modern femininity, suggesting a designer interested in giving softness more structure and more intellectual edge. It gave the brand a different sort of confidence, one rooted in line and intention rather than drift.
Design ethos
Ramsay-Levi’s work is marked by tension between sharpness and movement. At Chloé and elsewhere, tailoring, hardware and a slightly intellectual handling of femininity sit beside fluid dresses, boots and a more bohemian vocabulary, so the clothes do not settle into one register.
That mix gives her collections their character. She works by setting structure against looseness and historical reference against a contemporary edge, with line and styling carrying as much weight as decoration. The clothes often feel alert, mobile and slightly unsettled in a productive way. Boots, tailoring and hardware give that movement a firmer edge.
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