I’m exhausted and a bit bored by the designer merry-go-round hearsay mill, are you?
However please indulge these few updates as they’re personally of curiosity to me. First, it seems like Bottega Veneta’s Matthieu Blazy is about to be named as the brand new artistic director of Chanel. ‘Insiders’ say he received’t be chargeable for every thing in the best way that Karl was (let’s face it, Karl was a machine!) however he’ll be overseeing the design for RTW, couture and equipment. I’d have beloved to see Hedi Slimane within the position however I’m mainly comfortable for anybody who can refine the clunky tweed silhouettes that present Chanel designers appear obsessive about. Hedi confirmed a method to do tweed that’s fashionable, gentle and even – gasp! – cool, and I believe Matthieu can too.
Subsequent, we’re listening to that if Matthieu goes to Chanel, then Louise Trotter is within the operating to fill his seat at Bottega. I’m not sad about this prospect. Nice to have a lady within the position, however extra importantly, a lady who’s proven herself to grasp ladies’s existence, sartorial wants and needs (in her latest Carven collections) in the best way that Phoebe Philo did at Celine. Louise Trotter was beforehand at Lacoste (the place her designs had been presumably too elevated for the model’s positioning on the time) and Joseph (the place she had a well-deserved cult following of style fan women).
Lastly, information simply dropped that Dries Van Noten’s head of womenswear, Julian Klausner will make his runway debut because the label’s artistic director in March. Feels like one other acceptable rent. “I prefer to assume I inspired Dries to embrace bolder expressions,” Klausner informed Enterprise of Vogue’s Tim Blanks (paywall).
WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGE: Carven SS25 by Louise Trotter
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