Esteban Cortazar To Leave Ungaro?
June 5, 2009
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 Fall Winter 2009 Collection
March 10, 2009
Sunday March 08 2009 – Carrousel du Louvre – Salle Le Nôtre
Third time was the charm. After struggling to connect with the Emanuel Ungaro legacy, Esteban Cortazar has come up with a Fall collection that not only stayed true to the house founder’s go-go eighties joie de vivre, but at the same time proved he’s keyed in to what the nightclub set likes to wear now. That would be a fits-like-a-glove draped-and-wrapped strapless dress with bold tights and sky-high heels. His little party frocks came every which way: color-blocked in shades of royal blue, orange, and fuchsia; in multicolored polka dots; and beruffled in Ungaro pink and black. Sometimes Cortazar tossed on a stamped black leather motorcycle jacket and a very French silk scarf around the model’s neck; other times it was a cropped and cutaway blazer in a menswear plaid.
On the tailored side, a blue leather jacket and high-waisted satin pants with fanlike pockets on the hips could be contenders for party types who’ve aged out of microminis. Only the knits—bulky and not nearly as expensive-looking as the price tags will demand—fell flat. Overall, too, the show could’ve used a tighter edit, but that’s something that Cortazar can get the hang of now that he’s figured out his raison d’être.
Shop the Emanuel Ungaro Fall Winter 2009 Collection on Net-A-Porter.com
Emanuel Ungaro RTW Spring Summer 2009 by Esteban Cortazar
October 1, 2008
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:
