Following the announcement of Stefano Pilati's departure as creative director of Ermenegildo Zegna, the Italian menswear brand revealed that Alessandro Sartori will be appointed to the newly-created position of artistic director of the house.
Sartori left Zegna in 2011 to become the artistic director of luxury shoe brand Berluti. This return feels like a homecoming for the designer, who began his career at Zegna in 1989, soon after graduating from school in Milan, and progressed to become creative director of Z Zegna, the company's more fashion-forward sister label.
He will now oversee not only Z Zegna, but also the ready-to-wear and runway Couture labels of the house, but we'll have to be patient to see Sartori's first full season, slated to debut at Milan Fashion Week in January 2017.
