Givenchy

Marco De Vincenzo’s appointment as head of leather goods design on 26 May 2026 makes Sarah Burton the first Givenchy creative director since Riccardo Tisci to share authority over the house’s most commercial category — and reopens the question of what continuity at Givenchy has ever actually meant. The list of Givenchy creative directors since the house opened in February 1952 is short and uneven: Hubert de Givenchy himself for 43 years, then six successors in 31 years under LVMH. Read end-to-end, from the founder’s Bettina blouse through John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Julien Macdonald, Tisci, Clare Waight Keller, Matthew M. Williams and now Burton, the house’s design lineage looks less like a single thread and more like a sequence of complete brand reinventions, each one priced against the next. ...

Marco De Vincenzo’s 27 May 2026 appointment to Givenchy as Head of Leather Goods Design completes an eighteen-month restructure that has put designer-led leather goods leadership in place at every commercially significant LVMH house except Berluti. The question this piece answers — every LVMH house with a dedicated leather goods design lead in 2025–2026, and where each designer came from — turns out to map almost perfectly onto the group’s wider talent rotation since Jonathan Anderson left Loewe in March 2025. Eight houses, eight different reporting structures, one consistent decision: at the houses where the bag drives the P&L, the bag now has its own author. ...