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Kering

Alessandro Michele

The Alessandro Resurrection

A post-Valentino-appointment consideration of fashion’s most famous sabbatical, the designer’s future in Rome, and various other burning counterfactuals and hypotheticals.
Lauren Sherman • April 1, 2024
Lauren Sherman • March 28, 2024
Pinault Agency Curios & A Fashion P.R. Bonanza
François-Henri Pinault
The ongoing Art Partner speculation highlights a much, much bigger movement happening in the fashion-adjacent agency world.
Lauren Sherman • March 25, 2024
The Italian Jobs: Gucci, Valentino & More
Sabato De Sarno and Pierpaolo Piccioli
Notes on all the rumormongering around the latest career turns of Pierpaolo Piccioli, Alessandro Michele, Maria Grazia Chiuri, and many more.
Demna
Lauren Sherman • February 5, 2024
Demna, Alessandro & Other Fashion Week Infatuations
News and notes on all the gossip and musings and rumor-mongering animating the prelude to New York Fashion Week.
Will Kering C.E.O. François-Henri Pinault’s controlling position in CAA mean that the talent agency will have to overcompensate with the LVMHs and Chanels and Brunello Cucinellis of the world?
Lauren Sherman • January 2, 2024
Ozempic Mysteries, Estée Succession & The CAA-ification of Fashion
Seven predictions, questions, and concerns for the fashion business in 2024.
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…
François-Henri Pinault is not traditionally a micromanager, but has become much more involved in day-to-day decision-making at individual brands in recent months.
Lauren Sherman • July 31, 2023
The House of Gucci Gets a Tickle
Activist investor Bluebell Capital is pushing for major moves at Kering, and François-Henri Pinault seems to be listening. Will this financial love tap compel him to make more changes at the group? And is the dream of a Richemont-Kering merger finally closer to reality?
Francesca Bellettini has been elevated from Saint Laurent C.E.O. to Kering’s deputy C.E.O., with all the brand C.E.O.s reporting to her.
Lauren Sherman • July 20, 2023
Succession Season at Gucci
A C.E.O. switcheroo at Gucci, coupled with Maureen Chiquet’s new Kering board seat, has everyone in Paris reading the succession tea leaves.
Under François-Henri Pinault, the son of the founder, Kering aligned itself with more modern, and resolutely more American ideas, emphasizing transparency and clarity of vision.
Lauren Sherman • July 10, 2023
Kering in the Age of LVMH
Is this even a competition anymore? A look at how Kering, LVMH’s biggest rival, is navigating the era of big luxury.
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?