Versace

Pieter Mulier becomes Versace’s third creative director in eighteen months when he starts on 1 July 2026 — the appointment that finally tells the rest of fashion what Prada Group bought for $1.375 billion in December. Versace and Prada Group announced Pieter Mulier Versace as the new pairing on 5 February 2026, two months and three days after the closing that took the house out of Capri Holdings and into a portfolio that already contains Prada and Miu Miu. Mulier reports to Versace Executive Chairman Lorenzo Bertelli, son of Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli. He arrives from a five-year tenure as creative director of Maison Alaïa, the Paris house owned by Richemont since 2007, where his last collection showed in March 2026 and where, three months before that, he was named International Designer of the Year at the November 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards. ...