The Italian firm Gucci today announced the end of its collaboration with the creative director Sabato de Sarnno. The 2025 autumn-winter collection parade that will be held in Milan on February 25 will be composed of garments designed by the Gucci Design Office. It is still unknown who will be its successor, although the house has announced through a press release this morning that the announcement will be made soon. In the same note Stefano Cantino, the CEO of Gucci, has expressed his deep thanks to Sabato “for his passion and dedication to Gucci. I sincerely appreciate how Gucci’s crafts and legacy with such commitment. “
On the other hand, Francesca Bellettini, who is in charge of creative development of the firm and is the Deputy Executive Director of Kering, the luxury conglomerate chaired for its loyalty and professionalism. I am proud of the work that has been done to further strengthen Gucci’s reputation. Stefano and the new artistic direction will continue to be based on this and guiding Gucci towards the renewed leadership in fashion and sustainable growth. ”
The announcement has occurred by surprise a few days after the beginning of the fashion weeks in the main capitals of the industry (Milan, Paris, London; in New York it begins today) and in the midst of a great general stir in the sector for Imminent appointments in big houses.
Appointed just two years ago, in January 2023, from Sarnno he had worked on several flagships of the Italian luxury – from Prada to Dolce & Gabbana – and the years prior to his appointment had been the right hand of Pier Paolo Piccioli in Valentino faced a challenge a challenge Huge when he took over the position that Alessandro Michele had occupied until his departure at the end of 2022. His precessor – who has just debuted in Valentino with a shocking collection of haute couture – had taken Gucci’s controls in 2015. From his position not He only managed to transform the codes of the firm to approach in a novel way to which he was then the young public, the millennial but also create a totally recognizable language. Michele managed to convert this language and everything associated with him into a total object of desire for all audiences and all ages. The proof is that thanks to him in 2018 the firm managed to overcome sales to the French Casa Hermès and thus contribute to trigger the growth of the Kering conglomerate, in permanent competition with the other giant, LVMH.
