Alexander McQueen Leadership: Every CEO + Designer
When Gianfranco D’Attis took the Alexander McQueen CEO chair on 3 June 2026, he became the fifth chief executive the house has cycled through since Lee Alexander McQueen’s suicide sixteen years earlier — and the fourth hired since Kering bought a controlling stake in December 2000. The appointment, announced 1 June, slotted into the broader Kering portfolio refresh that Luca de Meo had unveiled six weeks earlier in Florence, and into the 2024-2026 sequence of Kering house-CEO appointments that has reshaped the group’s executive bench under both Pinault and de Meo. Alexander McQueen leadership has, in other words, become one of the most-watched succession files in luxury — a house that has not had a CEO last longer than six years since Jonathan Akeroyd left for Versace in 2016, paired with a creative-director chair that turned over for the first time in 2023 after thirteen years under Sarah Burton. ...