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Nicola Mira
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November 28, 2024
At a time when management of the provision chain has turn into a strategic asset for the luxurious trade, Dior has created its personal industrial division. The aim is to “strengthen [Dior’s] overall production capacity for the long term, and ensure the continuity of its know-how,” said Christian Dior Couture in a press launch. To go the brand new division, the LVMH group’s key label has poached Giorgio Striano from EssilorLuxottica, the place he was the COO.
Giorgio Striano – Dior
Striano will begin within the function of chief industrial officer at Dior on January 2 2025, and also will be part of the label’s government committee. He will probably be primarily based in Milan and can oversee all the label’s industrial operations, reporting to CEO Delphine Arnault.
Striano is a extremely skilled worldwide industrial operations government, with a give attention to the manufacturing of high-quality items. He started his profession at Procter & Gamble, then labored for Italian industrial group Manuli Rubber, and subsequently joined eyewear and optics large EssilorLuxottica, the place he spent the majority of his profession, taking cost of main amenities, notably in Asia and the USA. He was named COO in 2021, overseeing manufacturing vegetation and their employees in areas all around the world.
In organising the brand new industrial division, Dior has additionally employed Nicolas Carré, who was beforehand accountable for the Italy-based leather-based items and equipment manufacturing operations for Louis Vuitton, one other high label owned by LVMH, the place he has labored for 23 years. He’ll be part of Dior on December 1, assuming the submit of commercial director for leather-based items, footwear and trend jewelry. Carré will probably be primarily based in Florence, and he too will be part of the label’s government committee.
He succeeds Patrice Guillemin, who has within the meantime been appointed head of commercial initiatives. Each Carré and Guillemin will report back to Striano.
Nicolas Carré – Dior
Carré is a leather-based items manufacturing professional and has labored for his complete profession at Louis Vuitton, the place he held varied positions within the operations departments, in France, the USA and ultimately in Italy, the place he took cost of commercial operations for leather-based items and equipment in 2020. He was notably tasked with creating Louis Vuitton’s girls’s leather-based items, and has additionally been the director of the label’s long-established atelier in Asnières, France.
“It is more important than ever to sustainably support our various production processes at each stage of manufacturing, respecting the ethical regulations in force, overseeing all the house’s activities, while preserving and promoting Dior’s creativity, craftsmanship and exceptional savoir-faire,” stated Delphine Arnault, commenting on the appointments of Striano and Carré, whose experience will probably be “a major asset in Dior’s constant pursuit of excellence, creating products of extremely high quality.”
Dior has reorganised its operations division, placing a robust management staff on the helm, shortly after its Italian subsidiary, alongside the Giorgio Armani group, was focused in summer season by an investigation by Italy’s competitors regulator, which suspected the 2 teams of being lower than scrupulous close to working circumstances at a few of their sub-contractors. Dior was knowledgeable by the Italian authorities that unlawful practices had been found at two of its suppliers accountable for the partial meeting of some males’s leather-based items.
On the time, Dior had castigated the suppliers’ behaviour, slicing off all ties with them and pledging to “continue to transform its artisanal manufacturing operations, notably by integrating them within its own workshops.”
