Gucci has said that star Italian
designer Alessandro Michele has stepped down as its creative
director.
Michele took on the post in 2015, having worked his way up the
company, and helped the Italian fashion house register a big
increase in sales.
"There are times when paths part ways because of the different
perspectives each one of us may have," Michele said in a
statement released by Gucci's French parent group Kering.
"Today an extraordinary journey ends for me, lasting more than
twenty years, within a company to which I have tirelessly
dedicated all my love and creative passion. During this long
period Gucci has been my home, my adopted family. "To this
extended family, to all the individuals who have looked after
and supported it, I send my most sincere thanks, my biggest and
most heartfelt embrace. Together with them I have wished,
dreamed, imagined. Without them, none of what I have built would
have been possible.
"To them goes my most sincerest wish: may you continue to
cultivate your dreams, the subtle and intangible matter that
makes life worth living.
"May you continue to nourish yourselves with poetic and
inclusive
imagery, remaining faithful to your values. May you always live
by your passions, propelled by the wind of freedom."
Gucci said its design office would take over from Michele until
a new
organizational structure is presented.
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