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Alessandro Michele

Alessandro Michele valentino paris fashion week
Lauren Sherman • September 30, 2024

Alessandro’s Valentino Debut & The Jonathan Rumor Mill

The endless, anxiety-filled game of designer musical chairs took a back seat during Paris Fashion Week to a series of fashion-for-fashion’s sake shows at Rick Owens, Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe, Nadège Vanhée’s Hermès, Seán McGirr’s McQueen, and Alessandro Michele’s Valentino debut. And, yes, there was gossip, too.
Lauren Sherman • May 16, 2024
Delphine to the Rescue
Delphine Arnault
The surprise news that Michael Burke, the longtime Arnault lieutenant, was “stepping back” from his role as C.E.O. of LVMH’s fashion division has thrown Delphine Arnault into the catbird seat. Is her interim appointment a major step forward in the interminable sibling rivalry to one day replace her father?
Lauren Sherman • April 1, 2024
The Alessandro Resurrection
Alessandro Michele
A post-Valentino-appointment consideration of fashion’s most famous sabbatical, the designer’s future in Rome, and various other burning counterfactuals and hypotheticals.
Former Gucci designer Alessandro Michele, who seems increasingly likey to land at Fendi, and Balenciaga designer Demna.
Lauren Sherman • December 4, 2023
More Michele Murmurs & Demna Questions
Here’s what everyone is really talking about in Paris, Milan, and L.A. as the year comes to an end.
Alessandro Michele
Lauren Sherman • October 9, 2023
The Alessandro Gossip Wars: Fendi vs. Dior
Everyone in Paris (and New York… and L.A….) is murmuring about Alessandro’s next move. Herewith, the real story within the speculation.
Alessandro Michele
Lauren Sherman • October 5, 2023
More Alessandro Murmurs & McQueenology
A final dispatch from Fashion Month, with all the late-stage dish: Prada chatter, the incessant Alessandro-LVMH speculation, the transition at McQueen and much more…
The noise surrounding Alessandro Michelle’s potential move to the most valuable company in Europe reached a fever pitch in Milan.
Lauren Sherman • September 25, 2023
Inside the Michele-LVMH Rumor Mill & Other Milan Gossip
Welcome to the Line Sheet tip sheet, Milan Fashion Week edition: the Alessandro buzz, Versace succession, that Gucci show, and more.
Alessandro Michele
Lauren Sherman • July 6, 2023
How Badly Does LVMH Want Alessandro?
LVMH is in the business of hoovering up all the land’s top design talent, which would put the industry’s biggest free agent right in their crosshairs. And perhaps their infrastructure is just what he needs in his next act?
Lauren Sherman • June 8, 2023
Why Are Designers Becoming So Expendable?
A spate of high profile departures illustrate just how far we’ve come from the ’90s, when houses could afford creative talent more time to achieve success.
Lauren Sherman • May 8, 2023
Alessandro Michele Rumors Part 2: The Qatari Connection
While the fashion world awaits Michele’s next act, new details have surfaced regarding the Qatari royal family buying the long-dormant Walter Albini—with the express purpose of enlisting Michele to relaunch it.