Alessandro Michele. Rob Latour/Shutterstock
Transferring on. Gucci‘s artistic director Alessandro Michele is leaving the Italian style home.
The luxurious label introduced his departure in a press launch on Wednesday, November 23, explaining that the designer is “stepping down.”
President Marco Bizarri and CEO of Kering François-Henri Pinault applauded Michele, 49, within the memo. “I used to be lucky to have had the chance to fulfill Alessandro on the finish of 2014, since then now we have had the pleasure to work intently collectively as Gucci has charted its profitable path over these final eight years,” Bizarri mentioned. He added: “I want to thank him for his 20 years of dedication to Gucci and for his imaginative and prescient, devotion, and unconditional love for this distinctive Home throughout his tenure as artistic director.”
Pinault echoed comparable sentiments, saying: “The highway that Gucci and Alessandro walked collectively over the previous years is exclusive and can stay as an impressive second within the historical past of the Home. I’m grateful to Alessandro for bringing a lot of himself on this journey. His ardour, his creativeness, his ingenuity and his tradition put Gucci middle stage, the place its place is. I want him a fantastic subsequent chapter in his artistic journey.”
Michele, for his half, expressed appreciation for his time on the firm. “There are occasions when paths half methods due to the completely different views every one in all us could have,” he started. “At the moment a unprecedented journey ends for me, lasting greater than twenty years, inside an organization to which I’ve tirelessly devoted all my love and artistic ardour. Throughout this lengthy interval Gucci has been my residence, my adopted household.”
The artistic went on to reward his Gucci household. “To this prolonged household, to all of the people who’ve sorted and supported it, I ship my most honest thanks, my largest and most heartfelt embrace,” Michele mentioned. “Along with them I’ve wished, dreamed, imagined. With out them, none of what I’ve constructed would have been potential. To them goes my most sincerest want: could you proceed to domesticate your goals, the delicate and intangible matter that makes life price residing. Might you proceed to nourish yourselves with poetic and inclusive imagery, remaining devoted to your values. Might you all the time stay by your passions, propelled by the wind of freedom.”
Alessandro Michele and Jared Leto. Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock
Michele first joined Gucci in 2002 as an equipment designer earlier than being appointed artistic director in January 2015. Whereas with the model, Michele reinvented Gucci, giving the label a extra full of life and animated aesthetic — particularly within the menswear division. He launched colours, patterns and vibrant silhouettes.
His most standout creation contains the severed heads fashions carried down the autumn 2018 runway. Jared Leto famously rocked the accent, which was made to look precisely just like the actor, on the 2019 Met Gala.
Michele styled Leto, 50, and Harry Types, difficult gender norms. He was the brains behind the 28-year-old “Watermelon Sugar” singer’s black sheer robe and pearls on the 2019 Met Gala.
Extra not too long ago, the artist forged 68 pairs of twins to strut down the spring 2023 runway throughout Milan Style Week. The siblings had been wearing an identical clothes, which was meant to rejoice twins and his choice to repurpose archival Gucci items.
A substitute for Michele has not but been introduced.
