French luxury group Kering has tapped Sean McGirr as Creative Director of British luxury house British luxury fashion house Alexander McQueen. McGirr succeeds Sarah Burton who announced her departure earlier last month after nearly three decades. She was appointed Head of Design for...

Italian label Gucci and its parent company, Kering has announced that Sabato De Sarno will assume the role of Creative Director for the House. The surprise announcement was made in a joint press release Saturday over two months since Alessandro Michele announced he was stepping down as...

Italian luxury goods house Bottega Veneta has appointed Matthieu Blazy as its new creative director with immediate effect. The announcement comes after Daniel Lee abruptly stepped down last week from his role which he had held since 2018. Blazy’s appointment comes as no surprise since...

French fashion group Kering announced that two of its brands Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen have stopped using fur. Both brands will join Gucci and Bottega Benetta, who are also part of the same group and have officially committed to taking fur out of their range for good since quite...

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...

Paris-based luxury conglomerate Kering and some of its most well-known brands Balenciaga, Gucci, and Saint Laurent will manufacture face masks for French health care workers and hospitals in the fight against coronavirus. The workshops of Balenciaga, Gucci, and Saint Laurent will begin...

LVMH and Stella McCartney, are teaming up. The world’s largest fashion group announced that it had acquired shares in the British sustainable luxury fashion label after McCartney ended her 17-year partnership with rival Kering which owned half of the company. With this, LVMH will...

France plans to ban the burning of unsold luxury goods in an effort to mitigate the fashion industry’s massive waste problem and sweeping environmental impact. The announcement was made by French Deputy Ecology Minister Brune Poirson during a conference on fashion and sustainability at...

From Kering setting a minimum age for their models to Barbie receiving a CFDA award; here’s your Fashion Week in brief. Ariana Grande + Givenchy The world-renowned pop star was announced as the latest face of the French fashion house. Burberry The British fashion house launched its...

Kering, the French luxury company that owns Gucci, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, and Balenciaga has set the minimum age for their models. The news of its commitment to working only with models of legal age was revealed at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit yesterday. ‘As a global luxury...

Tomas Maier is leaving Bottega Veneta after seventeen years. The longtime creative director’s departure is effective immediately. Kering- the parent company of Bottega Veneta did not reveal the reasons for his departure but said that a successor would be named imminently. Maier joined...

After publishing a Charter on working relations with fashion models and their well-being in September 2017, luxury conglomerates LVMH and Kering have entered into a partnership with the launch of the new online platform WeCareForModels.com. The website provides fashion models who work in...

Two of the largest luxury conglomerates, LVMH and Kering, have decided that they will stop hiring size zero models, throughout all their brands. Marking the first time that the two competitors work together, both brands will establish a charter for the well-being of models hoping that other...