The American magazine
WWD
had prepared the spirits by relaying rumors about the departure of Alessandro Michele from the artistic direction of Gucci, this November 23.
The Florentine house, in the bosom of Kering, formalized the announcement a few hours later.
“
There are times when paths diverge due to the different perspectives each of us may have,”
Michele said in the statement.
Today ends for me an extraordinary journey that has lasted more than twenty years, in a company to which I have tirelessly dedicated my love and my creative passion.
During this long period, Gucci has been my home, my adoptive family.
To this extended family, to all the people who took care of it and supported it, I address my most sincere thanks, and I embrace them from the bottom of my heart.
At their side I desired, dreamed, imagined.
Without them none of what I have built would have been possible.
To them, therefore, I address my wishes…
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