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The designer died on September 4, 2025 with a succession structure already in his will, leaving the largest founder-led house in Italian fashion to test whether his discipline survives its author.
The first designer to follow Dries Van Noten himself did not reset the house — he deepened it, and the women's runway of March 2025 made the case.
Named in September 2024 and shown in March 2025, Ackermann's Tom Ford paired the house's seduction codes with a poet's tailoring — the first runway made the pairing legible.
LVMH's June 2025 decision to give a single creative director all of Dior reversed a twenty-year fragmentation habit and set the scale test for the whole industry.
Appointed in December 2024 and debuted in September 2025, Trotter built her Bottega on the one asset no predecessor can be blamed for neglecting: the weave itself.
Kering replaced provocation with romance at Balenciaga, and the first Piccioli collection made the house's couture inheritance the argument again.