LVMH, Boosting Women | Intelligence | BoF PARIS, France — Boardroom culture. We all know the cliché. A group of white, aging men who don’t see their families much. Women make the coffee and run their diaries. Sadly, the cliché often reflects reality. In October 2014, just 4.6 percent of Fortune 500 companies had female CEOs, while only 19 percent of board members at these companies were women. In fashion, more women rise to leadership positions — but not by much. Indeed, pervasive gender stereotypes still hinder women’s progress to the top of many industries. “We are developing and creating dreams, very often dreams for women,” said Chantal Gaemperlé, executive vice president of human resources and synergies of LVMH Moët Hennessey Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury conglomerate. “The talent pool in luxury is key because you don’t do business without the right people. First of all, LVMH established regional networks in key markets to cultivate a sense of community amongst women in senior positions. So is it working?
The History of Art and Fashion's Long-standing Relationship Fashion is in love with art like never before. From clothing design to catwalk show art direction, major labels to boutique houses, the word of fashion is falling over itself to involve important names from a diverse range of the visual arts. It’s hardy surprising — after all what is fashion if not wearable art — and these collaborations between the disciplines are certainly mutually beneficial. Fashion, often unfairly judged as one of the more frivolous applied arts, gains serious cachet by association, while the artist reaches a wider, more populist audience. Just as art and fashion so regularly collide, we bashed our heads together with online fashion destination Lyst (whose brilliant editorial arm The Long Lyst has quickly become one of the web’s go-to spots for well-considered fashion news; ideas; stories; opinion), digging up the history of this long-standing relationship. Schiaparelli x Dalí, 1937 Lobster dress Shoe Hat, 1937, modelled by Dalí’s wife Gala Rodarte Spring 2012 @lyst
Where Is the Line Between Fashion and Art? Schiaparelli's famous shoe hat. Image: Getty While the mingling of the art and fashion worlds is not a modern concept, the visibility of fashion and art crossover seems to be at an all high. The artist Richard Phillips has a long history of brand collaborations with MAC, Jimmy Choo, Mont Blanc, and Cartier. Phillips' collection for MAC. Phillips is currently finalizing several new collaborations. While the fashion world is hungry for new campaigns, the art world is gradually growing more accepting of contemporary artists venturing into the larger culture. Among her recent projects, Leitzes had a hand in orchestrating Marc Jacobs’s Fall 2015 limited-edition collection, which features the work of the artist duo Assume Vivid Astro Focus. The Murakami/Louis Vuitton collaboration. "[Pruitt] has this fascination with fashion. Pruitt embraces the nature of the working relationship. A display of Rob Pruitt for Jimmy Choo. "Savage Beauty" at the Met.
Meet the Female CEOs Running Fashion's Biggest Brands Although women account for two-thirds of clothing sales around the world, it's men who occupy the top positions at fashion companies — both on the creative side and, perhaps less surprisingly, on the financial. Of the 12 people on the executive committee of LVMH, fashion's biggest luxury conglomerate, only one is a woman — Chantal Gaemperle, head of human resources and synergies. And among its 15 fashion and leather goods houses — Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, Berluti, Loewe, Fendi, Loro Piana, Celine, Emilio Pucci, Givenchy, Donna Karan, Thomas Pink, Marc Jacobs, Nicholas Kirkwood and Edun — only Donna Karan and Loewe have female CEOs. LVMH's chief rival, Kering, has long been similarly positioned, although its recent endeavors to place more women in executive roles have borne fruit. At U.S. fashion houses, the ratio is even worse. Without further ado, here are 20 female CEOs in fashion to follow. Maureen Chiquet, Global CEO, Chanel Maureen Chiquet, a 52-year-old St.
When Fashion Meets Fine Art / artrepublic blog | ArtRepublic This entry was posted on 8th May / 2013 by admin. This week saw star guests and fashion royalty descend on New York for the Costume Institute Gala, known as the Met Ball, fashion’s smartest party celebrating the annual opening of the Metropolitan Museum’s fashion exhibition. The congregation of high fashion at one of the world’s largest and finest art museums got us thinking about the relationship between fashion and fine art… This year the red carpet leading up to the Metropolitan Museum was studded with safety pins, spikes and leather as celebrity guests embraced the exhibition theme ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’. The exhibition examines punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in 1970 through to its continuing influence today. The punk movement was itself fuelled by artistic developments such as Dada and Postmodernism and had an equally powerful influence on fine art with artists such as Jamie Reid embracing the anti-establishment aesthetic. The History of Art in Fashion
Art and Fashion: The Ultimate Collaborations The worlds of art and fashion are long intertwined; from Elsa Schiaparelli's collaborations with Salvador Dalí and Jackson Pollock's with Cecil Beaton, all the way through to Louis Vuitton with The Chapman Brothers and Prada with Elmgreen + Dragset. To celebrate the interaction between the two disciplines, fashion historian E.P. Cutler has compiled 25 of the most influential pairings and published a book, aptly titled Art + Fashion: Collaborations and Connections Between Icons, which explores creative relationships past and present. Here, she explores five of her favourites, exclusively for AnOthermag.com. Merce Cunningham x Rei Kawakubo"Rei Kawakubo’s 'Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body' collection (Spring/Summer 1997) inherently begs the question: Where does the dress end and the body begin? It’s delicious to contemplate. Louis Vuitton (under Kim Jones) x The Chapman Brothers"Considering how out there brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman are (Who thinks they can do Goya better than Goya?!
Fendi in China Karl Lagerfeld, looking very 1940s Berlin in his toggle-front, contrast-collar Kris Van Assche jacket, is on the Great Wall of China, curled up on a suede club chair. Spread over his lap is an expanse of knitted Russian sable that is worth as much as several years’ wages for most of China’s citizens. The scale and historical import of what he was about to do—stage a Fendi runway show on a more than 2,000-year-old, 4,500-mile-long structure visible from space—was hardly lost on the indefatigable designer. “After this, where can you go?” Where, indeed. Karl Lagerfeld strikes a pose, surrounded by models in his designs for Fendi “China will become, within 25 years from now, the greatest economic power in the world,” predicts LVMH kingpin Bernard Arnault. Some might consider traveling the world to put on such an extravagant fashion show a not-so-shabby feat, though it’s one Lagerfeld shrugs at. That won’t be the case when this video runs.
Culture - The revealing history of underwear Vogue BBC Two Documentary Screening Air Date Picture credit: Linda Brownlee 24 August 2016 Scarlett Conlon FILMING has wrapped, production has finished, and the air date for the BBC Two documentary series depicting life at British Vogue, Absolutely Fashion: Inside British Vogue, has been confirmed. The first of two episodes will air on Thursday, September 8 at 9pm. Documentary filmmaker Richard Macer was given unprecedented access to life at Vogue for nine months as it prepared for - and started celebrating - its centenary year. Related Gallery "At Vogue we are more used to being behind the lens than in front of it," said Shulman. Episode one picks up from the end of the spring/summer 2017 fashion shows in September 2015 and follows Shulman, fashion director Lucinda Chambers, creative director Jaime Perlman, fashion features director Sarah Harris, editor-at-large Fiona Golfar, and the wider Vogue team. Absolutely Fashion: Inside British Vogue, BBC Two, Thursday, September 8, 9pm.