The year 2025 has proven somewhat monumental for the fashion world. The world’s biggest fashion houses have undergone a major shift in their creative directors, from Demna , now installed at Gucci, to Matthieu Blazy , currently settling in nicely at Chanel. The latest shift is Olivier Rousteing exiting Balmain as creative director. After 14 years, the Bordeaux-born French fashion designer and the fabled French fashion house have mutually agreed to part ways. Rousteing was appointed the creative force behind Balmain in 2011, at just 24 years old. As a result, the ESMOD School of Fashion graduate became the first Black creative director ever appointed to lead a French maison.

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