New Appointments

Laura Pampin @LauraPampin
May 1, 2015
1 min read

Donna Karan International officially announced the appointment of Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne as new Creative Director of New York brand DKNY.

Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne

The duo launched their urban ready-to-wear brand Public School in 2008, earned the CFDA Menswear Design Award in 2014 and prestigious CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2013.

Their first collection will be presented at New York Fashion Week September 2015.

Also Hector Muela, former Marketing Director at Apple Inc. has been named Chief Image Officer for the fashion label, to oversee the DKNY image and brand along with the company’s marketing and digital strategies.

Hector Muela

French designer Bertrand Guyon is the new Design Director of fashion house Schiaparelli.

The new Design Director worked at Givenchy as couture assistant to Hubert de Givenchy, before working with John Galliano after he took the helm in 1995 and finally, Alexander McQueen, who replaced him in 1996. A year later he joined to the couture studio of Christian Lacroix and then become Design Director at Valentino in 2007.