Jump to content

Draft:Louise Trotter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Louise Trotter
Born1969
Alma materNorthumbria University, Newcastle
OccupationFashion designer
Labels

Louise Trotter is an English fashion designer; she is stepping as the Creative Director of the Milan-based fashion brand Bottega Veneta as for January 2025.

Biography

[edit]

Born in 1969 in Sunderland, in England,[1] she studied fashion at the Northumbria University of Newcastle, where she graduated in 1991.[2][3]In 2019, the same university awarded her with an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law Degree.[3]

She started working at Whistles where she got promoted to Creative Director. She then relocated to New-York to become Head of Womenswear at Calvin Klein, before stepping as Vice-President of Womenswear Design at Gap, [3]before moving to another PVH brand as SVP Creative Director at Tommy Hilfiger.[4][5]

She then moved back to the United-Kingdom to take over the role of Creative Director at Jigsaw.[6]

In 2009 she debuted as Creative Director for Joseph, where she remained for more than 9 years, until 2018.[7][8]

In 2018 she became creative director of Lacoste.[9][10]

In February 2023 she took over the creative direction of Carven[11] after leaving Lacoste at the beginning of the same year. [12]

On Thursday 12th December 2024, Carven and Kering announced simultaneously her withdrawal from Carven direction[13] and her debuts as creative director for Bottega Veneta, [14][15]starting from January 2025.[16]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Just/Talk: Justin Strauss with Louise Trotter". Ace Hotel (in Japanese). 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  2. ^ "Louise Trotter". Business Of Fashion.
  3. ^ a b c "Lacoste Creative Director honoured by Northumbria University". Mynewsdesk. 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  4. ^ "My Life, My Style: Louise Trotter". Harper's BAZAAR. 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  5. ^ Singh, Prachi (2018-07-30). "Joseph's creative director Louise Trotter quits". FashionUnited. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  6. ^ Roberts, Lauretta (2018-10-04). "Lacoste appoints former Joseph creative director Louise Trotter". TheIndustry.fashion. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  7. ^ AnOther (2017-05-12). "Joseph's Creative Director on the Beauty of Looking Undone". AnOther. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  8. ^ Newbold, Alice (2018-07-27). "Louise Trotter Leaves Joseph". British Vogue. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  9. ^ "Going Beyond the Crocodile". The New York Times. 5 March 2019..
  10. ^ "After 85 Years, Lacoste Names First Female Creative Director". ELLE. 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  11. ^ Hobbs, Julia (2024-07-17). "Carven's Louise Trotter Is Finding her Groove: "I Like Things to Be Practical and Useful and Beautiful at the Same Time"". Vogue. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  12. ^ WW, FashionNetwork com. "Creative director Louise Trotter leaves Lacoste". FashionNetwork.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  13. ^ Templeton, Lily (2024-12-12). "Carven Reveals Louise Trotter's Departure". WWD. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  14. ^ "Louise Trotter appointed Creative Director of Bottega Veneta". www.kering.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  15. ^ Zargani, Luisa (2024-12-12). "Bottega Veneta Names Louise Trotter New Creative Director". WWD. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  16. ^ "Bottega Veneta taps Louise Trotter as creative director". Vogue. 12 December 2024.