Alessandro Michele is stepping down as Gucci's creative director - NPR

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Harry Styles and Alessandro Michele be the 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes connected Fashion astatine Metropolitan Museum of Art successful May 2019 successful New York City.

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Alessandro Michele is stepping down arsenic Gucci's originative director, the institution announced Wednesday.

Michele, who has been with Gucci for 20 years, assumed the relation successful 2015. Before becoming originative director, helium was successful the company's footwear and accessories department.

"There are times erstwhile paths portion ways due to the fact that of the antithetic perspectives each 1 of america whitethorn have," Michele said successful a statement released by Kering, the luxury goods marque that owns Gucci. "Today an bonzer travel ends for me, lasting much than 20 years, wrong a institution to which I person tirelessly dedicated each my emotion and originative passion."

Michele brought a genderfluid and maximalist aesthetic to the brand, which was a departure from Tom Ford's sleek and provocative rebranding which saved the institution successful the 1990s.

Kering wrote that Michele "has played a cardinal portion successful making the marque what it is contiguous done his groundbreaking creativity, portion staying existent to the renowned codes of the House."

Dakota Johnson, Harry Styles and Lana Del Ray each led Gucci campaigns, which saw accelerated income erstwhile Michele was successful charge. According to The Washington Post, Gucci's gross roseate from conscionable nether €4 cardinal ($4.1 billion) successful 2015 to €9.7 cardinal ($10 billion) successful 2021. Its occurrence took a deed owed to the pandemic, though, and present Gucci is looking to revamp.

Michele described the radical down Gucci arsenic his adopted household and thanked them successful his statement. He near them with a wish: to proceed to cultivate their dreams, "the subtle and intangible substance that makes beingness worthy living."

"May you proceed to nourish yourselves with poetic and inclusive imagery, remaining faithful to your values," helium said. "May you ever unrecorded by your passions, propelled by the upwind of freedom."

A caller originative manager has not yet been announced.