Esteban Cortazar To Leave Ungaro?

WWD reveals that according to sources, the French fashion house plans to let go creative director Esteban Cortazar. Conflicts might have happened between the designer and the marketing and adverstising direction.

We learned a couple of days ago that Ungaro wanted to hire Lindsay Lohan as a creative consultant for the brand.  Mounir Moufarrige, Ungaro’s chief executive officer, is said to be insisting to get a celebrity has the new Ungaro face for the fall 09 in order to get ore attention. It has been confirmed that Lohan is indeed a candidate but not in the design team.

Ungaro has not done a campaign to promote the women’s ready to wear for years. For a brand a campaign is a way to get more exposure, not only as ad in a magazine but also in editorial as fashion editor would rather pick up clothes from an advertiser than from a brand not advertising in the magazine.

Moufarrige is a character and is known for having taken some surprising decisions in the past such as replacing Karl Lagerfeld with Stella McCartney as the designer of Chloe in 1997.

It’s Esteban Cortazar third season and each season has been very well received.

See our video from the Ungaro Fall Winter 2009 Collection featuring Andre J During Paris Fashion Week

Sunday March 08 2009 – Carrousel du Louvre – Salle Le Nôtre

Emanuel Ungaro RTW Spring Summer 2009 by Esteban Cortazar

October 1st 2008 – Carrousel Du Louvre –

Esteban Cortazar dedicated the show to his father, Valentino Cortazar, and printed his dad’s  letters  on the carpet runway (see pictures). All the models were wearing panama hats, the collection was a sucession of cocktail dresses which Ungaro is know for “it’s a dresses house” said Esteban Cortazar when asked about why so many dresses.

Esteban has respected the “codes”of the french house using printed silk patterns and Ungaro known shapes. The Spring Summer 2009 Ungaro girl is a french jet set girl in Miami.

Anna Wintour and Nina Garcia were there to support Esteban.

See our pictures below: