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Fashion Network
16-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Desigual unveils unisex capsule with Botter inspired by kinetic movement
This new launch aligns with Desigual's broader transformation strategy, which aims to reinforce its creative direction and differentiated positioning in the global fashion landscape. This evolution includes the upcoming presentation of its Studio line, set to debut with a fashion show in Barcelona on September 10. It also follows the appointment of actress Ester Expósito as the brand's new ambassador, as part of Desigual's ongoing effort to connect with new generations. Founded by Thomas Meyer in 1984, Desigual currently operates over 280 single-brand stores and is present in 107 markets through 10 sales channels. The brand reported total revenues of €332 million in fiscal 2024, driven primarily by international expansion and growth in its online channel. Botter, founded by Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh in 2017, blends Belgian and Dutch tailoring with multicultural influences. After winning the Grand Prix at the Hyères Festival in 2018 and being finalists for the LVMH Prize, the pair took over the artistic direction of Parisian fashion house Nina Ricci, a role they held until 2022. They currently lead their namesake label while also serving as artistic directors of G-Star, a role they began in April 2024.
Elle
15-07-2025
- Business
- Elle
Maryll Rogge Is Marni's New Creative Director
Meryll Rogge is having quite the year, and it's well deserved. This morning, Marni's parent company Only The Brave (OTB) announced that she will succeed Francesco Risso at the Italian house. (Risso's departure came after a near-decade-long tenure with the brand.) 'We met many highly qualified candidates, confirming how Marni continues to inspire and attract creatives from around the world. Meryll impressed us with the sensitivity she brought to reinterpreting the brand's DNA,' Renzo Rosso, chairman of OTB, said in a statement. In June, the 40-year-old Belgian designer took home the 2025 ANDAM grand prize (and its €300,000 grant), for which she was also a finalist last year. This year's class was filled with tight competition, including Willy Chavarria and 2025 LVMH Prize finalist Alain Paul. The prize and now, the appointment have catapulted Rogge from a cult-favorite designer (since launching her namesake label five years ago) to someone with a seat at the luxury table. Previously, Rogge cut her teeth working in New York for Marc Jacobs before returning to her Belgian roots as the head of womenswear at Dries Van Noten—two brands whose color play and eclectic designs mesh well with the kooky DNA that many have come to associate with Marni. 'I'm truly honored to join Marni—a house I've long admired for its independent spirit. To take on a role defined by such visionary creative directors is both humbling and inspiring,' added Rogge in the statement. It's one of over two dozen creative director shifts at luxury labels in the last year—amid a turbulent time for the industry that has made a creative director debut the biggest runway trend of them all. Despite the musical chairs, Rogge is only one of four women who has been appointed to a major luxury womenswear label and until now has existed considerably more under the radar. Of the quartet, Louise Trotter at Bottega Veneta has also yet to make her anticipated official runway presentation. Though no official date has been given as of yet regarding Rogge's first collection for Marni, debuts continue to rule yet another season as everyone races to make their mark.
Fashion United
11-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
Setchu to guest at Fragranze trade fair and launch fragrance collection after Pitti Uomo
Following its guest appearance at Pitti Uomo menswear trade fair in January, Japanese brand Setchu is now also represented at the fragrance and beauty trade fair, Fragranze, organised by Pitti Immagine. Satoshi Kuwata's brand, the 2023 LVMH Prize winner, has its first own fragrance collection in tow, Pitti Immagine announced on Thursday. As a special guest, Kuwata will present five creations "in which East and West merge to evoke familiar scents and profound experiences". "I wanted to capture this intimate, deep scent that accompanies each of us in the ritual of body care, when there is time and no rush," said Kuwata. "Something moving and pure, fresh, crystalline, immaculate, reminiscent of childhood." To achieve this, he searched for the scents of Eastern and Western bathing rituals "to bring back these sensations associated with care and solicitude". The perfume creations were developed in collaboration with perfumer Julie Massé from fragrance specialist Mane and will be presented for the first time in September at Pitti Fragranze in Florence. This article was translated to English using an AI tool. FashionUnited uses AI language tools to speed up translating (news) articles and proofread the translations to improve the end result. This saves our human journalists time they can spend doing research and writing original articles. Articles translated with the help of AI are checked and edited by a human desk editor prior to going online. If you have questions or comments about this process email us at info@
Fashion Network
30-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Andam 2025 Grand Prix awarded to Meryll Rogge
The verdict fell on Monday evening in the Jardins du Palais Royal, where the atmosphere was feverish. The Meryll Rogge label, founded by the eponymous Belgian designer, won the grand prize at Andam 2025. The fashion competition, founded in 1989 by managing director Nathalie Dufour at the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture and Le Défi to support young designers, and chaired by Guillaume Houzé, also awarded its special prize to the young French brand Alainpaul. For his part, Frenchman of Turkish origin Burc Akyol won the Pierre Bergé prize for a young French fashion company. As for Belgian Sarah Levy, she took home the prize for fashion accessories. The fifth prize, for innovation, created in 2017, had been announced in May, crowning this eighth edition Losanje, which has invented a technology to industrialize textile upcycling. Also awarded for the first time on this occasion was a special prize, to Goldeneye Smart Vision, a solution developed by the company Apollo Plus, which relies on advanced machine learning and AI to revolutionize fabric quality control. The total prize fund for the competition is 700,000 euros, including the Andam Grand Prize (300,000 euros), the Special Grand Prize (100,000 euros), the Pierre Bergé Prize (100,000 euros), the Fashion Accessories Prize (100,000 euros) and the Innovation Prize (100,000 euros). The winners also each benefit from a year's mentoring with a patron of the arts. Sidney Toledano, advisor to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, will accompany the Grand Prix winner this year, as patron of the 36th edition and president of the jury, while Alexandre Mattiussi is the mentor for the Pierre Bergé prize. Meryll Rogge was already one of Andam's finalists in 2024. A lifelong fashion enthusiast, after graduating from the Royal Academy of Antwerp in 2008, the designer flew to New York, where she landed an internship with Marc Jacobs, one of her favorite designers. She stayed for seven years, working on women's ready-to-wear. Back in Antwerp, she joined the teams at Dries Van Noten, another house she adores, where as head of design she steered the design of the women's collections and worked on the designer's perfume project. In 2020, she took the plunge and launched her own label: a contemporary women's wardrobe, mixing classic pieces and strict tailoring, outerwear and eveningwear, in daring and unexpected combinations. Despite Covid, her cheerful creations, at once sensual and masculine, artisanal and pop, caught the eye of buyers and today number around fifty. Also a finalist in 2025 for the Woolmark Prize, crowned Designer of the Year 2024 at the Belgian Fashion Awards, Meryll Rogge, the designer who presents her collections at Paris Women's Fashion Week, was also among the semi-finalists for the LVMH Prize in 2022. This year, Alainpaul is also a finalist for the LVMH Prize. The women's, men's and unisex brand, which has been parading at Paris Women's Fashion Week since September 2024, was launched in 2023 by former dancer-turned-designer Alain Paul (36) with his husband Luis Philippe, who was store manager and visual merchandiser at Colette. The designer, who has worked for Vetements under the aegis of Demna Gvasalia and Louis Vuitton with Virgil Abloh, aims to redefine the silhouette, exploring the evolution of body proportions, which have changed over the last ten years. He often takes as his starting point the dancer's wardrobe, the spontaneity of movement and the choreography of garments around the body, to propose impeccably tailored pieces in beautiful materials with great attention to detail and construction. The winner of the Prix Pierre Bergé has a very different profile. Born in France of Turkish parents, Burc Akyol grew up in Dreux in a North African community. The young man learned sewing from his tailor father. A finalist for the LVMH 2023 Prize, he studied at the IFM before starting to work for designer labels. Having worked in the studios of Dior, Balenciaga and Esteban Cortazàr, in 2019 he founded his own house of women's and men's demi-couture. Behind the impeccable cuts and draping, he expresses above all his vision, emancipating himself from the oriental stereotype. The second time was the charm, as she was a finalist in last year's Andam competition. In 2019, the new accessories prizewinner, Sarah Levy, had distinguished herself in another competition. At the Hyères Festival, she won the People's Choice Award in the Fashion Accessories category, with a delightful collection of leather accessories. The Belgian designer was not originally destined for the fashion world, as she initially specialized in urban planning, working as an architect for ten years. A jewelry enthusiast in her youth, she decided to change her life in her thirties, returning to study at the prestigious La Cambre school, this time in the visual arts and accessories section. She has collaborated for Givenchy, Marine Serre and Patou, among others, and has made a name for herself in recent years for her playful, practical accessories that sometimes extend the body like prostheses. Last year, Andam awarded its Grand Prix to Lebanese-born Australian designer Christopher Esber, its Special Prize to the label of Frenchman Emeric Tchatchoua, while Edmond Luu's Pièces Uniques won the Prix Pierre Bergé and Maeden, the leather goods brand run by Dutchman Christian Heikoop, the Fashion Accessories Prize.
Fashion Network
30-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Andam 2025 Grand Prix awarded to Meryll Rogge
The verdict fell on Monday evening in the Jardins du Palais Royal, where the atmosphere was feverish. The Meryll Rogge label, founded by the eponymous Belgian designer, won the grand prize at Andam 2025. The fashion competition, founded in 1989 by managing director Nathalie Dufour at the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture and Le Défi to support young designers, and chaired by Guillaume Houzé, also awarded its special prize to the young French brand Alainpaul. For his part, Frenchman of Turkish origin Burc Akyol won the Pierre Bergé prize for a young French fashion company. As for Belgian Sarah Levy, she took home the prize for fashion accessories. The fifth prize, for innovation, created in 2017, had been announced in May, crowning this eighth edition Losanje, which has invented a technology to industrialize textile upcycling. Also awarded for the first time on this occasion was a special prize, to Goldeneye Smart Vision, a solution developed by the company Apollo Plus, which relies on advanced machine learning and AI to revolutionize fabric quality control. The total prize fund for the competition is 700,000 euros, including the Andam Grand Prize (300,000 euros), the Special Grand Prize (100,000 euros), the Pierre Bergé Prize (100,000 euros), the Fashion Accessories Prize (100,000 euros) and the Innovation Prize (100,000 euros). The winners also each benefit from a year's mentoring with a patron of the arts. Sidney Toledano, advisor to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, will accompany the Grand Prix winner this year, as patron of the 36th edition and president of the jury, while Alexandre Mattiussi is the mentor for the Pierre Bergé prize. Meryll Rogge was already one of Andam's finalists in 2024. A lifelong fashion enthusiast, after graduating from the Royal Academy of Antwerp in 2008, the designer flew to New York, where she landed an internship with Marc Jacobs, one of her favorite designers. She stayed for seven years, working on women's ready-to-wear. Back in Antwerp, she joined the teams at Dries Van Noten, another house she adores, where as head of design she steered the design of the women's collections and worked on the designer's perfume project. In 2020, she took the plunge and launched her own label: a contemporary women's wardrobe, mixing classic pieces and strict tailoring, outerwear and eveningwear, in daring and unexpected combinations. Despite Covid, her cheerful creations, at once sensual and masculine, artisanal and pop, caught the eye of buyers and today number around fifty. Also a finalist in 2025 for the Woolmark Prize, crowned Designer of the Year 2024 at the Belgian Fashion Awards, Meryll Rogge, the designer who presents her collections at Paris Women's Fashion Week, was also among the semi-finalists for the LVMH Prize in 2022. This year, Alainpaul is also a finalist for the LVMH Prize. The women's, men's and unisex brand, which has been parading at Paris Women's Fashion Week since September 2024, was launched in 2023 by former dancer-turned-designer Alain Paul (36) with his husband Luis Philippe, who was store manager and visual merchandiser at Colette. The designer, who has worked for Vetements under the aegis of Demna Gvasalia and Louis Vuitton with Virgil Abloh, aims to redefine the silhouette, exploring the evolution of body proportions, which have changed over the last ten years. He often takes as his starting point the dancer's wardrobe, the spontaneity of movement and the choreography of garments around the body, to propose impeccably tailored pieces in beautiful materials with great attention to detail and construction. The winner of the Prix Pierre Bergé has a very different profile. Born in France of Turkish parents, Burc Akyol grew up in Dreux in a North African community. The young man learned sewing from his tailor father. A finalist for the LVMH 2023 Prize, he studied at the IFM before starting to work for designer labels. Having worked in the studios of Dior, Balenciaga and Esteban Cortazàr, in 2019 he founded his own house of women's and men's demi-couture. Behind the impeccable cuts and draping, he expresses above all his vision, emancipating himself from the oriental stereotype. The second time was the charm, as she was a finalist in last year's Andam competition. In 2019, the new accessories prizewinner, Sarah Levy, had distinguished herself in another competition. At the Hyères Festival, she won the People's Choice Award in the Fashion Accessories category, with a delightful collection of leather accessories. The Belgian designer was not originally destined for the fashion world, as she initially specialized in urban planning, working as an architect for ten years. A jewelry enthusiast in her youth, she decided to change her life in her thirties, returning to study at the prestigious La Cambre school, this time in the visual arts and accessories section. She has collaborated for Givenchy, Marine Serre and Patou, among others, and has made a name for herself in recent years for her playful, practical accessories that sometimes extend the body like prostheses. Last year, Andam awarded its Grand Prix to Lebanese-born Australian designer Christopher Esber, its Special Prize to the label of Frenchman Emeric Tchatchoua, while Edmond Luu's Pièces Uniques won the Prix Pierre Bergé and Maeden, the leather goods brand run by Dutchman Christian Heikoop, the Fashion Accessories Prize.
