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The Piccioli-Jonathan-Jones Designer Dominoes

The much-delayed and already-obvious news that Kim Jones is leaving Fendi, almost certainly to be succeeded by Pierpaolo Piccioli, looks poised to finally (finally!) set off a chain reaction of designer moves of the first and second order.

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So now, given Jones’s exit and the natural order of things, another displaced team will be given a new home. Photo: Marc Piasecki/WireImage
Lauren Sherman
October 14, 2024

A famous behind-the-scenes fashion person messaged me early on Sunday morning with a modest plea: Don’t forget about us. This person was gesturing toward a simple, unpleasant reality of the business. When a creative director steps down from a brand, as Kim Jones officially did from Fendi on Friday, a whole team often follows them out the door—designers, stylists, photographers, art directors, etcetera. The incoming creative director often interviews the internal design team and keeps only a few specialists in select roles, replacing the rest with loyalists from their previous stomping grounds.