For Your Consideration: A Long List of Talented Designers Who Aren't Men – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips March 20, 2025 at 06:15PM

📰 For Your Consideration: A Long List of Talented Designers Who Aren't Men

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The fashion industry has been going hard on its high-stakes game of designer musical chairs lately, with creative directors moving among labels at a breakneck rate. Though it's always an interesting news day when a designer leaves a high-profile post, it's often even more intriguing to find out which skilled artist is next in line to take over. What makes these moments less exciting, though, is when the new hire is — you guessed it! — another white guy.

Maria Grazia Chiuri — the creative director at Dior — is one of the very few women currently leading a major luxury brand. With news of Jonathan Anderson's departure from Loewe, it's all but confirmed that he's set to replace Chiuri, potentially making that list of female creative directors even shorter. Meanwhile, Versace recently announced that Dario Vitale will assume the brand's lead design role from Donatella Versace; Chanel replaced Virginie Viard, who departed her role as artistic director last year, with Matthieu Blazy; and Demna is about to be come the third consecutive white male to head Gucci since Frida Giannini's departure in 2015.

For an industry that mostly relies on the wallets of women to turn a profit, not a whole lot of them hold creative (or corporate, for that matter) positions of power. Why? The patriarchy. The reality is, even in an industry that only succeeds if women let it, men are still overwhelmingly put in charge.

Instead of stepping too high up on my soapbox and going on about why other people — aside from the five white men luxury execs seem to have on a rotating platter — deserve a chance to lead luxury brands, I thought I'd offer a bit of help. Below, find the names of many talented, capable and accomplished women to consider the next time a table of (probably white, probably male) executives want to try out a new vision for their fashion business.

Chitose Abe

Founder and Creative Director at Sacai

Gabriela Hearst

Founder and Designer at Gabriela Hearst

Helle Hestehave and Rikke Baumgarten

Founders and Creative Directors at Baum und Pferdgarten

Iris Van Herpen

Founder and Designer at Iris Van Herpen

Jeanette Madsen and Thora Valdimarsdottir

Founders and Creative Directors at Rotate Birger Christensen

Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski

Creative Director at Hermès

Nan Li and Emilia Pfohl

Co-Founders and Designers of Namilia

Natalia Alaverdian

Founder and Designer at A.W.A.K.E Mode

Paloma Lanna

Founder and Creative Director at Paloma Wool

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