Bottega Veneta will kick off 2025 with not just a new creative director, but a female one: British designer Louise Trotter. She succeeds Matthieu Blazy — who nabbed the big job at Chanel, as announced this week — and will become one of the very few women leading a major luxury brand in fashion today.

Kering has announced that Louise Trotter has been named creative director of the Bottega Veneta fashion house. She will succeed Matthieu Blazy.

As the craft-happy designer says “ciao” to Bottega Veneta, we look back at how his work was editorialized in the magazine.