Felipe Oliveira Baptista Named Creative Director Of Kenzo

Felipe Oliveira Baptista has been named the brand new inventive director of Kenzo.

LVMH have introduced that the 44-year-old clothier shall be taking on from Carol Lim and Humberto Leon as head of the French luxurious trend home, six days after the pair introduced their closing assortment as co-creative administrators of the model.

Baptista just lately stepped down from French clothes firm Lacoste, the place he served as inventive director from 2010 to 2018 and shall be taking the reins as head of Kenzo on July 1.

Kenzo’s CEO Sylie Colin instructed WWD: ”What made us select Felipe above different candidates is the truth that he has a world creative strategy.

”He has a 360-degree inventive imaginative and prescient and can oversee creative course globally, dealing each with collections and communication.”

During his time at Lacoste, Baptista was answerable for organising a number of profitable collaborations together with the Lacoste x Supreme drop which bought out in 16 minutes – serving to the model connect with a millennial viewers – in addition to this 12 months’s Endangered Species assortment with the International Union for Conservation of Nature which noticed the long-lasting crocodile emblem changed by animals on the point of extinction, with the variety of particular person shirts correlating to the variety of the species left within the wild.

Announcing his departure final 12 months, Baptista thanked all of the individuals who helped make his tenure successful.

Posting his announcement to Instagram, he wrote: ”THE END OF AN ERA, LACOSTE_FOB, 2010 – 2018, Eight unimaginable years made attainable with the expertise & assist of everybody at Lacoste, specifically the nice Design studio. Also, all of the wonderful sample cutters, machinists, artists, photographers, stylists, stylists assistants, producers, set designers, sound designers, musicians, movie administrators, casting administrators, hair stylists, make-up artists, fashions, PR’s, inventive administrators, graphic designers, trend designers, Brands, promoting businesses, journalists, writers, actors, choreographers, dancers, athletes and most of all my associate in crime and all the pieces else: Sévi [sic]”