January 30, 2017 |
Confirmed this morning: Clare Waight Keller has left Chloé as Creative Director, deciding not to renew her contract with the French house to spend more time with her family. Lovely. “Clare has been a remarkable partner at Chloé over the past six years,” Chloé’s president, Geoffroy De La Bourdonnaye, said to Business of Fashion. “She helped rejuvenate the legacy of Gaby Aghion, the first ever Chloé girl, by infusing a cool and easy breeze into the Chloé wardrobe, effortlessly mixing graceful and feminine flou with a free-wheeling and boyish take on tailoring. Clare has a unique talent in directing a large studio of strong creatives. I would like to personally thank Clare for her loyalty and dedication to Chloé.” And this time, there’s apparently none of that who’s in, who’s out musical chairs scenario and have found her successor in Nicolas Ghesquiere’s right-hand woman at Louis Vuitton, Natacha Ramsay-Levi. We wish the best of luck to Clare Wright Keller in whatever’s next.
Photograph by Jason Lloyd-Evans at Chloé SS17
