Author: Robert Williams
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During five years as artistic director, Di Felice reactivated the storied Parisian label with a clubby energy and collections that breathed new life into its Space Age DNA.
The London-based showroom-turned-brand incubator, which also owns Martine Rose, is being sold to Italy’s Andrea Ciccoli. Founder Stefano Martinetto breaks down the move for BoF in this week’s High Margin luxury newsletter.
Andrea Ciccoli’s Progetto 11, parent of Italian e-commerce firm The Level Group, is taking over the cash-strapped distributor that owns Coperni and Martine Rose.
Subscribe to High Margin by Robert Williams: perspectives on creativity and business in the world of luxury.For the first time in a long time, it feels like fashion is really changing. I’m not talking about the reshuffling of CEOs and marquee creative directors, and their respective visions for brand articulation. But rather which clothes feel right, which clothes feel wrong, and what customers out in the world are actually responding to. A new silhouette still feels like the missing ingredient to make fashion’s “Great Reset” a reality. The soft, cocooning aesthetic that recently signalled confidence and ease increasingly feels like…
PARIS — Balmain’s new era began with a black leather jacket: a cross-over aviator style with collar snaps and a cinched waist. Styled with big sunglasses, the message was one of armoured, self-possessed glamour. Which new designer Antonin Tron elaborated on with gowns that balanced plunging necklines with long sleeves and sharp, accentuated — but no longer exaggerated — shoulders.Balmain Autumn/Winter 2026. (Launchmetrics.com/spotlight) For Tron, that tension between exposure and structure is the essence of the house. “From the very beginning in 1945, 1946 Pierre Balmain came with something very sexy, very glamorous, but still restrained,” he said. Since joining…