Vikram Alexei Kansara

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | Robert Williams |Vikram Alexei Kansara

Maria Grazia Chiuri is stepping down as womenswear artistic director at Christian Dior, the brand confirmed in a short statement Thursday, ending months of speculation. An elaborate runway spectacle staged at the Villa Albani Torlonia in her hometown of Rome on Tuesday capped a transformative nine-year tenure at LVMH’s second-biggest fashion brand. Former Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson is widely expected to succeed Chiuri.

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Vikram Alexei Kansara

Goop, Anine Bing and Ami Paris investor Felix Capital has made Laurent Droin a partner in the firm’s first such appointment in four years. Droin was most recently a partner at Eurazeo, where he led investments in Dutch haircare brand Gisou, Swedish sneaker label Axel Arrigato and French perfumer Ex Nihilo. A belief in “Europe’s rich legacy of brand building and creative excellence” is a key element of Felix’s investment thesis.

3 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Vikram Alexei Kansara

These days “fashion month” comes with such a torrent of social media coverage that everything blurs together by the end of the season. That’s the problem System magazine says it’s aiming to solve with a new bi-annual, System Collections, which will offer a “time capsule” of key looks from the latest round of women’s ready-to-wear shows, with context from key fashion critics and other industry insiders. The concept isn’t exactly new.

2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Vikram Alexei Kansara

A downturn in demand for luxury fashion hasn’t stopped brands from making a splash at the latest Salone del Mobile design fair, which opens in Milan this week. If anything, the slowdown has sharpened the industry’s focus on the strata of top clients — critical to luxury’s business this year — who come to town for the spring event.

2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Robert Williams |Vikram Alexei Kansara

PARIS — Gucci has named Demna its new artistic director, selecting an era-defining fashion provocateur from within parent company Kering’s own creative ranks to fuel its next chapter. Georgia-born Demna has been creative director of Kering’s Balenciaga brand since 2015. There, his penchant for oversized, Goth-inflected sportswear collided with the house’s couture codes to spark a renaissance for the Parisian house.