Gucci, Alessandro Michele leaves the group

(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 23 - Alessandro Michele leaves his role as creative director of Gucci.

This was announced by the brand of the Kering group by pointing out that Michele has been at the helm of the creative team of the maison since 21 January 2015 and has held a fundamental role "in making Gucci what it is today, thanks to his revolutionary creativity and always in compliance with the brand's codes".

The Gucci creative team will continue the creative direction of the Maison until the announcement of a new organization.

"There are moments when paths separate due to the different perspectives that each of us may have. Today an extraordinary journey ends for me, which lasted more than twenty years, within a company to which I have tirelessly dedicated all my love and my creative passion .

In this long period, Gucci has been my home, my adopted family", says Michele. "To this extended family, to all the single people who have cared for and supported it, go my heartfelt thanks, my biggest and most moved hug.

Together with them I have desired, dreamed, imagined.

   Without them none of what I have built would have been possible.

So my most sincere wish to them: may you continue to feed on your dreams, subtle and impalpable matter that makes a life worth living.

May you continue to feed on poetic and inclusive imagery, remaining faithful to your values.

May you always live on your passions, driven by the wind of freedom".

    Marco Bizzarri, president and CEO of Gucci, comments: "I want to thank Alessandro for his twenty-year commitment to Gucci and, for his vision, dedication and unconditional love for this unique Maison, over the years as Creative Director".

For François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of Kering, "his passion, his imagination, his ingenuity and his culture have put Gucci at center stage, in the place it deserves".

   (HANDLE).