New York - Vionnet announced through a press note on Tuesday that it will go through a voluntary liquidation process. The release explains that Vionnet Srl and its holding company NVO Srl will close operations with the intention to further sustainability. The French fashion house has been in operation since its founding by Madeleine Vionnet in...
Oct 16, 2018
London - French fashion house Vionnet has teamed up with British visual artist Marc Quinn to create a sustainable capsule collection. Goga Ashkenazi, the creative director of Vionnet, was inspired to develop a sustainable collection together with her friend Quinn after viewing some of his art made from plastic waste taken from the ocean. "I have...
May 8, 2018
new York - Vionnet will be returning home to Paris at 31 Rue Francoise-1er, just in time for Paris Fashion Week. The label, which in 2012 went under the creative direction of Gogo Ashkenazi, hasn't had a boutique in Paris for over half a century. The new boutique is located in close proximity to wear Vionnet's original headquarters was decades...
Sep 30, 2015
New York - Relaunching a luxury fashion house is no easy task, but for billionaire Goga Ashkenazi who purchased Vionnet in 2012, she's managed to find a way to make it possible. She's in a unique position as the fashion house's sole proprietor and chairman, in addition to being the Creative Director for the brand, although she isn't a designer...
Sep 18, 2015
The bi-annual fashion parade which jumped from New York, London and Milan has come to a spectacular end in the birthplace of haute couture: Paris. Whilst a number of fashion houses hosted catwalk shows that successfully complimented the collections being presented, some events were said to be so extravagant and star filled that the garments...
Mar 12, 2015
INTERVIEW_For a woman with everything, including several gold mines, Kazakh oligarch Goga Ashkenazi's purchase of the fabled Vionnet Paris fashion house in 2012 was the chance of a lifetime, even if not everyone in fashion welcomed it. With no real background in fashion, the glamorous, Oxford University-educated Ashkenazi -- who counts Britain's...
Sep 26, 2014
This week there were two new design debuts at the couture shows in Paris; Hussein Chalayan's collection for Vionnet, and Marco Zanini's collection for Schiaparelli. The house of Vionnet has been through several reincarnations, though it originally flourished in the 20s and 30s, before the start of the second world war. Known for its bias cut and...
Jan 23, 2014
