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Alessandro Michele leaves the Gucci group. "An extraordinary journey ends for me" - Lifestyle

2022-11-24T08:44:05.601Z


He was the creative director of the maison until January 21, 2015 (ANSA) Alessandro Michele leaves the creative direction of Gucci. The confirmation comes on the evening of 23 November with an official note from the Kering group brand, after the rumors circulated for hours: after more than seven years, it is a divorce from the designer who has played a fundamental role "in making Gucci what it is today, thanks to its revolutionary creativity and always in compliance wi


Alessandro Michele leaves the creative direction of Gucci.

The confirmation comes on the evening of 23 November with an official note from the Kering group brand, after the rumors circulated for hours: after more than seven years, it is a divorce from the designer who has played a fundamental role "in making Gucci what it is today, thanks to its revolutionary creativity and always in compliance with the brand's codes".

"There are moments when the paths separate due to the different perspectives that each of us may have. Today - underlines the Roman designer, 50 years old on November 25th -

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.

During this long period, Gucci has been my home, my adopted family.

To this extended family, to all the individual people who have cared for and supported it, go my heartfelt thanks, my biggest and most moved embrace.

Together with them I have desired, dreamed, imagined.

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

To them therefore my most sincere wish: 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 by your passions,

driven by the wind of freedom", his parting words. The team will continue the creative direction of the maison until the announcement of a new organization.

ANSA. it

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Marco Bizzarri, president and CEO of the group, thanks "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, "the path that Gucci and Alessandro have traveled together in recent years is unique and will remain an exceptional moment in the history of this Maison. I am grateful to Alessandro for bringing so much of himself to this adventure. His passion, imagination,

ingenuity and culture have put Gucci at center stage

, in the place it deserves. I wish him all the best in the next chapter of his creative journey."


The rumors had been launched in the late evening of November 22 by the American magazine WWD, citing sources close to the brand according to which

the cause of the breakup would have been Alessandro Michele's refusal of "a strong change in the design" requested by Pinault

.

Which, translated into profit terms, could mean a change of course to recover ground after the economic performance of the last few months, considered to be lower than expected.


Alessandro Michele

was appointed Creative Director of Gucci in January 2015

, two days after the Fall/Winter 2015-16 men's fashion show held in a very short time after the farewell of Frida Giannini, which took place a few days earlier.

A bolt from the blue, because Alessandro Michele had been the right hand of the outgoing stylist, whom she had met at the Academy of Costume and Fashion in Rome.

The designer had been selected by Bizzarri who supported him right from the start.

In the late 1990s he joined Fendi as a senior accessories designer and in 2002 Gucci,

hired by Tom Ford in London

.

A crescendo of assignments until 2011 when

he became Frida Giannini's right arm

.   


Then

seven years of success,

up to the latest financial reports which, however, have revealed a slowdown in the growth of the brand, compared to the overall growth of the group.

In the third quarter of 2022, Gucci achieved a turnover of 2.58 billion euros, up by 18% (+9% on a comparable basis).

While in the same group in the same period Yves Saint Laurent saw an increase of 40% and Bottega Veneta of 20%.

As for style, the latest fashion show designed by Michele for the brand was one of the most incredible fashion shows of recent times:

the designer - who was the first to embrace and promote the gender fluid aesthetic -

used

twin models

wearing tailored garments and androgynous looks.

The reason for the choice, a reflection on his identity: his mother had a twin and he always thought he had two mothers.


ANSA. it

From Gucci a show of only twins - Lifestyle

The 68 pairs of cufflinks chosen by Gucci for its show for next summer, dedicated to the theme of the double, come out on the catwalk holding hands.

(HANDLE)



In the show his visionary idea of ​​fashion has left its mark with the clothes worn by

Achille Lauro

in Sanremo and still with the clothes made for the

Maneskin

.

Without forgetting

Jared Leto

, who showed up at the 2022 Met Gala with the same 70s tuxedo, dark glasses and loose hair on his shoulders, as his friend and twin brother Alessandro Michele. 

Source: ansa

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