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Luxury Fashion’s Designer Diversity Problem Persists

Despite major hires like Chanel’s Virginie Viard and Louis Vuitton’s Pharrell Williams, gender parity and racial diversity in top creative roles remain urgent problems.
With the departure of Sarah Burton from Alexander McQueen, all creative directors at Kering brands are white men.
With the departure of Sarah Burton from Alexander McQueen, all creative directors at Kering brands are white men. (Ik Aldama)

This week, when Kering appointed Seán McGirr as creative director of Alexander McQueen, the Paris-based luxury group must have hoped that tapping a protegé of star designer Jonathan Anderson would win swift approval from the fashion community.

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