Stakes are high for luxury fashion, as brands reshuffle their head designers


A model presents a creation from the Gucci Spring/Summer 2025 collection during Milan Fashion Week last year. Photo: Reuters

A slump in luxury fashion is prompting designer reshuffles at top houses Gucci, Chanel and Dior to reignite heat around their brands – while avoiding too radical a reset that could confuse affluent shoppers.

The stakes are high, as the €363bil (approximately RM1.7trillion) global luxury goods market grapples with its lowest sales rates in years with after an economic slowdown in China and rising inflation elsewhere make high-end consumers more reluctant to splash out.

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