Legendary Italian designer Nino Cerruti passed away on Saturday, 15th January 2022. According to the Italian newspaper <em>Corriere della Sera</em>, he died in the hospital of Vercelli in the Piedmont region, where he had undergone hip surgery. “The employees of Maison Cerruti in Paris and their colleagues in HongKong SAR, China PRC, Taiwan RoC, and its...
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Dior has reorganized its press team. Giuseppe Sperandio is now the brand’s international press and public relations director for Christian Dior Couture and corporate communications. He will oversee womenswear, home, and childrenswear. He succeeds Sandrine Serre and Isabel Moessigner, who spearheaded press and public relations for international...
Jan. 14, 2022
Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) has appointed Natalie Lee as its new general manager for the Asia-Pacific region. In her new role, Lee will oversee marketing, communications, personal shopping and commercial planning across all APAC countries outside of mainland China and Japan. She joins the Italian luxury retailer from fashion resale platform...
Jan. 13, 2022
Walpole, the industry body for the British luxury sector, has announced ‘The 2022 Power List’ featuring the “most influential” people in British luxury, who it notes “despite enormous challenges throughout the past two years, have continued to steer the sector to success”. The list was unveiled at the Corinthia London on January 11 and features...
Online value retailer Studio.co.uk has appointed Gareth Powell as its director of data to spearhead a new data team. Powell, who joined Studio in June as head of enterprise data products and insight, has been named the online retailer’s new director of data and tasked with bringing together Studio’s analytics, data governance, data engineering...
Jan. 12, 2022
Swedish retailer Filippa K has appointed Liisa Kessler as its Creative Director. She succeeds Filippa Knutsson, the brand’s founder, who stepped away from the role in 2019. Kessler, who is an alumnus of Saint Laurent, Chloé and Y/Project will be based at the brand’s Stockholm headquarters and be responsible for all creative aspects of the...
Accessories and jewelry brand Claire’s has named Richard Flint as its new president of Europe. Flint joins from Dutch retail giant Hema, where he was most recently chief growth officer. Prior to that, he spent six years at Nike, where he was vice president of direct-to-consumer and led the company’s China business. Earlier still, he spent four...
Tiffany Godoy has been named the new head of editorial content for Vogue Japan. She will work in close collaboration with Anna Wintour, Vogue’s global editorial director and Condé Nast’s chief content officer, and Leslie Sun, Vogue’s Asia-Pacific director. “Tiffany’s experience working across print, digital, audio and video, coupled with her...
Jan. 6, 2022
Pepco Group, the variety discount retailer and owner of Poundland in the UK and the Pepco and Dealz brands in Europe, has announced that Andy Bond is stepping down as chief executive at the end of March due to health reasons. Bond, who was previously chief executive of Asda, took the helm at Pepco Group in 2015 and has guided the business...
Jan. 5, 2022
Balmain has named Emily V. George president, Americas. Her appointment is effective immediately as she steps into her new role today. The fashion executive has spent most of her career at Marc Jacobs International. The news was reported by WWD. Currently, Balmain has six freestanding U.S. stores, including two in New York, one on Madison Avenue,...
Jan. 3, 2022
April Ashley, a British model and actress who was a pioneering figure in the fight for trans rights, has died at 86, local media reported Wednesday. Ashley was one of the first British people known to have undergone gender reassignment surgery, although she only gained full legal recognition as a woman in the UK in 2005. She was honoured by...
Dec. 29, 2021
US fashion brand Lions Not Sheep Apparel has appointed former TapouT co-founder Dan Caldwell as its new president and chief operating officer, effective January 3, 2022. Caldwell has 24 years of experience in the apparel industry having founded combat sports brand TapouT in 1997. During his time at the company, he helped it grow to 350 million...
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