Alexander-Mcqueen

The Kering house CEOs de Meo has personally installed since he took office on 15 September 2025 number exactly three: Francesca Bellettini at Gucci on 17 September 2025, Jean-Marc Duplaix at the newly created Kering Jewelry division in March 2026, and Gianfranco D’Attis at Alexander McQueen on 1 June 2026, effective 3 June. Four further house-level appointments — Stefano Cantino to Gucci, Cédric Charbit to Saint Laurent, Gianfranco Gianangeli to Balenciaga, Federico Arrigoni to Brioni — predate him and belong to the final months of François-Henri Pinault’s solo authority over the group. One seat, Bottega Veneta, remains open as of 12 June 2026. The chronology, read together, is the clearest single document we have of how Luca de Meo intends to run Kering: through a small number of decisive, internally-promoted moves at the houses that matter most to the group’s revenue, and a willingness to leave the others uncovered until he has the right person rather than the available one. ...

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. ...