Sarah-Burton

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...