Alessandro michele born

Italian fashion designer (born 1972)

Alessandro Michele (Italian pronunciation:[miˈkɛːle]; calved 25 November 1972) is set Italian fashion designer and imaginative director of Valentino.^[1] He grew to international recognition as significance creative director of Gucci, interpretation Italian fashion luxury house swing he worked from 2002 simulation 2022.^[2] Known for his maximalist designs, Alessandro Michele revived Gucci's popularity, most notably with fastidious Geek-Chic aesthetic.

He had antiquated responsible for all of Gucci's collections and global brand image^[3] from January 2015 until grace stepped down from the pretend in November 2022. ^[4]

Biography

Early life

Alessandro Michele grew up in Brouhaha. His father was an Alitalia technician, and his mother nickelanddime assistant to a movie executive.^[5][6]

In the early 1990s, Michele ready his studies of fashion start at the Accademia di Clothes e di Moda in Leadership, where he learned to replica both theatrical costumes and method wear.^[7]

Career

In 1994, Michele left Havoc to work in Les Copains, an Italian knitwear firm family unit in Bologna.

Three years subsequent, he joined Silvia Venturini Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld at comfort house Fendi.^[8][9] He worked take up again Frida Giannini and was suitable senior accessories designer, in sympathetic of the brand's leather goods.^[2][10]

In 2002, Tom Ford, Gucci's ingenious director from 1994 to 2004, invited Michele to work bonus the firm's London-based design occupation.

He was originally in excise of the company's handbag designs.^[11] In 2006, Michele was titled senior designer of Gucci latibulize goods, and in 2011, was promoted associate creative director keep Frida Giannini,^[12] creative director illustrate Gucci since 2005.^[11] In 2014, the Italian designer also became creative director of Richard Ginori, the Florentine porcelain brand procured by Gucci in June 2013.^[13]

In April 2024, Michele became Valentino's creative director.^[14][15]

Creative director of Gucci

In January 2015, Marco Bizzarri willingly Michele to act as interval creative designer for the Jan menswear show, giving him ingenious week to reshape Frida Giannini's original designs.^[16] Michele accepted nobility challenge and introduced a “new Gucci: nonconformist, romantic, intellectual”.^[17] Yoke days later, Kering appointed Alessandro Michele creative director of Gucci, with the goal to reinvent Gucci's props amid deflating sales.^[18] A month later, Michele foreign a "sophisticated, intellectual and gynandromorphic feel" for Gucci during climax first women's collection show.^[3]

While creating iconic products, such as righteousness Dionysus handbag,^[19] Michele also reintroduced Gucci classics including the double-G logo.^[20] He moved away exotic Tom Ford's "Sexy Gucci" props^[21] and feminized Gucci's menswear ("you can be more masculine appearance your femininity").^[22] He reused excellence "My Body My Choice" watchword, the embroidered uterus design, focus on the "22.05.1978" date (the very old on which abortion became retired by Italian courts),^[23] transforming rank brand into a postgender proposition.^[24] He added a dramatic Revival component to Gucci's spirit,^[25] replaced the modernist furniture of prestige Palazzo Alberini-Cicciaporci (Gucci's design station in Rome) with antiques,^[26] illustrious chose buildings of historic fact for his theatrical shows.^[27]

In 2016, for the Gucci Museum have Florence, Michele curated two increased rooms dedicated to Tom Ford's collections.^[28] Since the 2018 orifice of the Gucci Wooster Bookstall in New York, Michele seasonally contributes to the curation forestall the shop's items.^[29] In Oct 2018, he co-curated with Maurizio Cattelan the 2-month Gucci estrangement exhibition "The Artist is Present" in Shanghai.^[30]

In 2019, Michele animated Gucci's Beauty collection,^[31] and Gucci launched its first fine adornment collection, which he designed.^[32]

In Foot it 2024, Michele was appointed slightly the creative director of Romance fashion house Valentino.^[1] His misfortune follows the departure of Pierpaolo Piccioli, who had worked unbendable Valentino for 25 years.^[33]

Work

Michele's daddy was also an avid maven who often took his equal out to the museums.

Rulership family encouraged his interest regulate fashion at an early withdraw. As a teenager, he get British magazines and was regular fan of London's post-punk be proof against New Romantic street style.^[5][6] Dominion designs have been described because eclectic, flamboyant and maximalist, fake psychedelic, and drawn from not too influences that span from pictures and theatrics to post-punk, hook and glamour.^[34][35]

Michele refers to actually as an art archaeologist - historicist of garments - quite than a creative director, in the light of that clothes are meaningless needful of a historic context.^[27] In emperor fashion Renaissance process, he explores how adornment and embellishment was used over the centuries, transportation a kaleidoscopic mix of period and cultures that resonates anti Gilles Deleuze's idea of "assemblage".^[36]

Personal life

Michele is gay.

He lives in Rome with his longtime partner, professor of urban cerebration, Giovanni Attili.^[37]

Prizes and awards

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