Vikram Alexei Kansara

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Vikram Alexei Kansara

Change is coming to the fashion desk at The Financial Times. Elizabeth Paton, who was most recently international styles correspondent at The New York Times, will succeed Lauren Indvik as the FT’s fashion editor, starting in August. The move is something of a homecoming for Paton, who worked at the FT from 2011 to 2015 under then fashion editor Vanessa Friedman before joining Friedman at the Times.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.