page_title: Alessandro Michele
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Alessandro Michele / Biography / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Both by Gucci/Alessandro Michele, 2018Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibit at the Met Camp - Notes on Fashion at the Met - Alessandro Michele for Gucci (73831 cut).jpg
context_page_description: Alessandro Michele is an Italian fashion designer. In January 2015, he was appointed creative director of Gucci, the Italian fashion luxury house where he had been working since 2002. He is responsible for all of Gucci's collections and global brand image.
context_section_description: In 1994, Alessandro Michele left Rome to work in Les Copains, an Italian knitwear firm based in Bologna. Three years later, he joined Silvia Venturini Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld at luxury house Fendi. He worked with Frida Giannini and was appointed senior accessories designer, in charge of the brand’s leather goods.
  In 2002, Tom Ford, Gucci’s creative director from 1994 to 2004, took notice of Alessandro Michele’s designs and invited him to work at the firm’s London-based design office. He was originally in charge of the company’s handbag designs. In 2006, Alessandro Michele was named senior designer of Gucci leather goods, and in 2011, he was promoted associate creative director to Frida Giannini, creative director of Gucci since 2005. In 2014, the Italian designer also became creative director of Richard Ginori, the Florentine porcelain brand acquired by Gucci in June 2013.
caption: Two ensembles by Michele for Gucci on display during The Met's exhibit Camp: Notes on Fashion
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