On Monday, the Paris fashion house revealed that Raf Simons is taking over as artistic director, replacing John Galliano, who was fired from Dior last year after he made anti-Semitic remarks. Simons’s first collection is planned for July at the fall haute couture shows in Paris.Marc Jacobs, the US star at Louis Vuitton, was a favorite until talks broke down late last summer, reportedly over compensation. Other big names, including Alber Elbaz of Lanvin, rejected Dior’s advances. Highly regarded or not, Dior seemed to have trouble finding someone.
The choice of Simons culminates more than a year of discussions and apparent soul searching by Dior and its boss, Bernard Arnault, who is chairman of LVMH, about the ideal person to give creative direction to the 66-year-old luxury brand. The company issued a statement that the new Dior designer “will propel its iconic style into the 21st Century.
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