Natacha Ramsay-Levi Exits Chloé
After almost four years and previous stints at Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton as a pupil under Nicolas Ghesquière, French designer Natacha Ramsay-Levi has stepped down as creative director of Chloé. In a brief statement released via Instagram Ramsay-Levi spoke on her sudden departure, “Over the last months of health, social and economic turmoil, I have given thoughts to the changes I want to see in our industry and how to better align them with my own creative, intellectual and emotional values. It is this reflection that makes me consider my future differently and desire to pursue new opportunities.” Ramsay-Levi’s successor has yet to be named but WWD reports Gabriela Hearst, Ilaria Icardi, design director at Victoria Beckham, and Gabrielle Greiss, who has designed for Chloé and Sonia Rykiel are being floated around as possible replacements.
An impeccably stylish single mother of one son and a stepdaughter from her relationship with Olivier Zahm, the photographer and founder of Purple magazine, whom New York magazine once called “fashion’s most libidinal editor”), Ms. Ramsay-Levi was born and raised in Paris.
She initially dreamed of being a historian, and has an edgier profile than her predecessor, Clare Waight Keller — or, indeed, many of the other designers who came before: Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo and Hannah McGibbon.
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