Balenciaga and PPR have announced the appointment of Alexander Wang as Creative Director. Wang will take responsibility for designing the brand’s women’s and men’s ready-to-wear and accessories collections, as well as for Balenciaga’s image.
Alongside his new duties at Balenciaga, Wang will continue his activities with his own, independently-owned fashion house. “I am deeply honoured to embark on this new role for a brand and house that I have such great admiration and respect for,” noted Wang.
Balenciaga President & CEO Isabelle Guichot added: “The Balenciaga fashion house and its staff are proud to welcome Alexander Wang, whose proven talent, modernity and individual and cosmopolitan vision of design will naturally embrace and enrich the unique heritage of this fashion house which will soon be one hundred years old.”
François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of PPR, commented: “Balenciaga is an extraordinary fashion house with inexhaustible potential and it is endowed with a priceless heritage. Alexander Wang will use his creativity and his own research to reinterpret and immortalize the distinctive, modern and extremely innovative style imposed by Cristóbal Balenciaga.”
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