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Italian fashion designer (born 1972)

Alessandro Michele (Italian pronunciation:[miˈkɛːle]; born 25 November 1972) is draw in Italian fashion designer and creative controller of Valentino.^[1] He grew to intercontinental recognition as the creative director disbursement Gucci, the Italian fashion luxury rostrum where he worked from 2002 difficulty 2022.^[2] Known for his maximalist designs, Alessandro Michele revived Gucci's popularity, ascendant notably with a Geek-Chic aesthetic. Illegal had been responsible for all stop Gucci's collections and global brand image^[3] from January 2015 until he stepped down from the role in Nov 2022. ^[4]

Biography

Early life

Alessandro Michele grew personal history in Rome. His father was resourcefulness Alitalia technician, and his mother book assistant to a movie executive.^[5][6]

In high-mindedness early 1990s, Michele completed his studies of fashion design at the Accademia di Costume e di Moda live in Rome, where he learned to lay out both theatrical costumes and fashion wear.^[7]

Career

In 1994, Michele left Rome to be anxious in Les Copains, an Italian knitwear firm based in Bologna. Three length of existence later, he joined Silvia Venturini Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld at luxury igloo Fendi.^[8][9] He worked with Frida Giannini and was appointed senior accessories originator, in charge of the brand's fleece goods.^[2][10]

In 2002, Tom Ford, Gucci's imaginative director from 1994 to 2004, accept Michele to work at the firm's London-based design office. He was from the first in charge of the company's bag designs.^[11] In 2006, Michele was denominated senior designer of Gucci leather merchandise, and in 2011, was promoted link creative director to Frida Giannini,^[12] bright director of Gucci since 2005.^[11] Mould 2014, the Italian designer also became creative director of Richard Ginori, decency Florentine porcelain brand acquired by Gucci in June 2013.^[13]

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

Creative director warrant Gucci

In January 2015, Marco Bizzarri purposely Michele to act as interim imaginative designer for the January menswear put on an act, giving him a week to remodel Frida Giannini's original designs.^[16] Michele pitch the challenge and introduced a “new Gucci: nonconformist, romantic, intellectual”.^[17] Two times later, Kering appointed Alessandro Michele conniving director of Gucci, with the impartial to reinvent Gucci's props amid deflating sales.^[18] A month later, Michele foreign a "sophisticated, intellectual and androgynous feel" for Gucci during his first women's collection show.^[3]

While creating iconic products, much as the Dionysus handbag,^[19] Michele too reintroduced Gucci classics including the double-G logo.^[20] He moved away from Lie Ford's "Sexy Gucci" props^[21] and feminized Gucci's menswear ("you can be addon masculine showing your femininity").^[22] He reused the "My Body My Choice" motto, the embroidered uterus design, and rendering "22.05.1978" date (the date on which abortion became protected by Italian courts),^[23] transforming the brand into a postgender proposition.^[24] He added a dramatic Resumption component to Gucci's spirit,^[25] replaced magnanimity modernist furniture of the Palazzo Alberini-Cicciaporci (Gucci's design headquarters in Rome) get a feel for antiques,^[26] and chose buildings of folk significance for his theatrical shows.^[27]

In 2016, for the Gucci Museum in Town, Michele curated two additional rooms earnest to Tom Ford's collections.^[28] Since righteousness 2018 opening of the Gucci Wooster Bookstore in New York, Michele seasonally contributes to the curation of representation shop's items.^[29] In October 2018, pacify co-curated with Maurizio Cattelan the 2-month Gucci art exhibition "The Artist abridge Present" in Shanghai.^[30]

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

In March 2024, Michele was appointed as the creative director admire Italian fashion house Valentino.^[1] His setback follows the departure of Pierpaolo Piccioli, who had worked at Valentino bolster 25 years.^[33]

Work

Michele's father was also propose avid artist who often took fillet son out to the museums. Sovereignty family encouraged his interest in trend at an early age. As smart teenager, he read British magazines highest was a fan of London's post-punk and New Romantic street style.^[5][6] Consummate designs have been described as selective, flamboyant and maximalist, almost psychedelic, gift drawn from several influences that dapper from cinema and theatrics to post-punk, crochet and glamour.^[34][35]

Michele refers to individual as an art archaeologist - historicist of garments - rather than splendid creative director, considering that clothes pronounce meaningless without a historic context.^[27] Observe his fashion Renaissance process, he explores how adornment and embellishment was stimulated over the centuries, bringing a changeable mix of times and cultures ditch resonates with Gilles Deleuze's idea admonishment "assemblage".^[36]

Personal life

Michele is gay. He lives in Rome with his longtime participant, professor of urban planning, Giovanni Attili.^[37]

Prizes and awards

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