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Former Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele Joins Valentino
One week after Pierpaolo Piccioli left Valentino, the house replaced him with former Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele
“I feel the immense joy and the huge responsibility to join a Maison de Couture that has the word ‘beauty’ carved on a collective story made of distinctive elegance, refinement and extreme grace.” He continued: “I search for words to nominate the joy, to regard it, to really convey what I feel; the smiles that kick from the chest, the bliss of gratitude that lights up the eyes, that precious moment when necessity and beauty reach out and meet. “I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet Alessandro at the end of 2014, since then we have had the pleasure to work closely together as Gucci has charted its successful path over these last eight years,” the company’s president Marco Bizzarri wrote in a memo.
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