Alessandra Facchinetti Teases Launch of Her Personal Vogue Model

BACK IN FASHION: Alessandra Facchinetti, the previous Tod’s artistic director of womenswear, could possibly be making a comeback by launching her personal trend model.

“I’m engaged on a venture and for positive ‘Italiannes’ and Italian craft will probably be on the heart of it,” she mentioned, speaking on the 2023 version of the Milano Vogue International Summit. “It’s not going to be solely devoted to trend, however doubtlessly extra [categories],” she added.

The designer stayed mum on further particulars, together with the model’s title and launch date, however mentioned she’s busy with prep work.

“[Embracing] Made in Italy for me was a life determination, a approach to suppose and see issues,” the designer mentioned. “At the moment with all that’s happening I believe Made in Italy can present useful solutions… it’s about bringing high quality, know-how and artisanship again on the heart of the [fashion] dialog,” she mentioned.

Facchinetti exited Tod’s in 2016 after becoming a member of the luxurious model three years earlier, an eventful tenure that noticed the model make a ready-to-wear push and begin holding runway reveals throughout Milan Vogue Week. Earlier than that, the previous Gucci and Valentino head designer had labored with Pinko to launch the Uniqueness model in 2011. Within the 2006-07 interval, she was artistic director of the Moncler Gamme Rouge assortment. Earlier in her profession she labored on the Prada Group for the Miu Miu model.

After parting methods with Tod’s, the designer moved to New York earlier than kicking off a consulting profession within the Far East, ranging from China.

“I used to be searching for a problem, to reset my [career] path and begin once more from scratch and I used to be requested to collaborate with a Chinese language firm tasked with educating them a working methodology,” she mentioned. “That was an unbelievable problem at a time when China was proving a related market [for the luxury sector].”

In 2020 Facchinetti arrange her personal Atelier-01 consulting studio and joined Harlan + Holden, a South Korean ready-to-wear males’s and ladies’s start-up model. She has labored with Weiden + Kennedy Company on the rebranding and worldwide communication and with David Chipperfield Architects on a brand new retailer idea.

Final 12 months she partnered with Editions Milano, which produces and distributes high-end furnishings, lighting and equipment, designing “Circle,” the corporate’s first foray into the world of porcelain ceramics. She has additionally designed costumes for an opera manufacturing with music by her father Roby Facchinetti, musician, singer and keyboardist of the band Pooh, devoted to Parsifal, staged on the Arcimboldi theater final March.

“After I determined to reopen my studio, I wished to specific and channel my creativity and imaginative and prescient in several fields, not essentially solely trend,” she mentioned on the summit, including she’s now consulting with firms within the Philippines and Indonesia.