A number of complete days haven’t even handed since Pierpaolo Piccioli despatched shockwaves by the business, saying his sudden departure as artistic director of Valentino. The mud on Piccioli’s tenure is but to settle however fits at Mayhoola HQ wasted no time to find a alternative. True to a lot hypothesis over on theFashionSpot boards, Alessandro Michele is Piccioli’s successor. Michele, who beforehand held the place of Gucci artistic director from 2015-2022 has been on a design hiatus for 14 months, and can be part of the storied luxurious Italian style home on Tuesday April 2. The Italian designer’s first assortment is scheduled to be unveiled in September throughout the Spring 2025 season of Paris Style Week.

Revisit Alessandro Michele’s debut womenswear Gucci assortment:

Learn under the reactions of theFashionSpot’s discussion board members:

“Congratulations to him.” [LadyJunon]

“Congrats, however all of us wished to see him at Fendi…” [perhydrol]

“I’m so mad at him for letting us endure Kim Jones at Fendi! I nonetheless want him one of the best of success in hopes that he’ll enable himself to work on the service of the model and never take pleasure in his costumes methods. It-bag mission activated!” [Lola701]

“That is thrilling. I’m optimistic that he’ll work inside the realms of Valentino and never do precisely what he was doing at Gucci. I hope the break has accomplished him nicely and he has one thing new and extra to say. He has loads to work with.” [reese06]

“I hope he can cease these stud pumps. It seems like they’re promoting it for like 800 years. They usually have very restricted colours.” [kasper!]

“Not less than their accent division has hope. I’m questioning if the couture will include the standard Michele extra however we’ll see.” [Kimihiro]

“I’m impartial towards him so no matter. Time will inform.” [Kanzai]

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