After serving as the first and only female creative director at Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri has signed on today as the creative director of Fendi. Just last month, the Italian fashion house announced that Silvia Venturini Fendi, whose family has owned the label for three generations and who led the brand in the interim after Kim Jones’s departure, would transition into the new role of honorary president. (In May, Chiuri announced she was leaving Dior , where Jonathan Anderson is now serving as creative director. Anderson just showed his first collection .)

Before her tenure at Dior, Chiuri had a stint as a handbag designer at Fendi and worked her way up through the ranks at Valentino, where she was named co-creative director alongside Pierpaolo Piccioli in 2008. Much of her work has

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