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Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Calvin Klein global brand president exits
This story was originally published on Fashion Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Fashion Dive newsletter. Eva Serrano will leave her position as global brand president of Calvin Klein, according to a Thursday announcement from parent company PVH Corp. David Savman, PVH's global head of operations and chief supply chain officer, will succeed Serrano, who will remain with the company through the end of the year, serving as an advisor to support the transition, per the release. Savman joined PVH in 2022, and in addition to his current roles, he served as interim CEO for PVH Europe from June 2024 to February of this year, per his LinkedIn bio. In 2022, PVH outlined its multi-year strategic PVH+ Plan, designed to strengthen both Calvin Klein and PVH-owned Tommy Hilfiger. Serrano, who joined the company in 2023, helped drive part of that initiative, and during her tenure the Calvin Klein brand refreshed its image with both consumers and the fashion industry. 'As an integral part of the wider PVH+ Plan, and through Eva's leadership, Calvin Klein has been aligned as one brand under a global vision, plan and team, with a strong foundation for future growth,' PVH CEO Stefan Larsson said in the release. 'We are thankful for Eva's critical contributions on this journey.' Last year was a particularly notable year for Calvin Klein. In May 2024, the company hired designer Veronica Leoni to be creative director of Calvin Klein Collection, and in February, brought the line back to the runway after a six-year pause. Also in 2024, the company debuted two men's underwear ad campaigns featuring actor Jeremy Allen White, which generated significant social media impact for the brand. 'I'm incredibly proud to have been a part of this extraordinary brand journey where we have built the global foundation to unlock future growth, and I look forward to seeing the team take this forward,' Serrano said in the release. Serrano successor Savman comes to the role with extensive experience, and PVH credited him with repositioning Europe for growth during his tenure as interim CEO there. The company added that Savman will continue in his current role until the company names a successor. Prior to joining PVH, he spent nearly 20 years with H&M, where he served in multiple roles including head of supply chain, per his LinkedIn. 'David is a people-focused leader with a proven ability to elevate brands, execute with a robust operating engine and deliver PVH+ Plan performance, all of which will be critical as we take Calvin Klein into this next chapter,' Larsson said. Calvin Klein's fourth quarter revenue dropped 2%, while the brand's full year revenue fell 1%. PVH fourth quarter revenue declined 5% year over year to $2.4 billion, beating the company's guidance. Full year revenue dropped 6% to $8.7 billion, in line with the lower end of the company's guidance. Recommended Reading PVH added to China's Unreliable Entity list over cotton sourcing Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Fashion United
09-05-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
Leadership change at Calvin Klein: David Savman succeeds Eva Serrano
PVH Corp. has announced a leadership transition on May 8, 2025, appointing David Savman as the new global brand president of Calvin Klein, succeeding Eva Serrano. Serrano, who has led the brand since 2023, will remain with the company through the end of the year in an advisory capacity to ensure a smooth transition. PVH CEO Stefan Larsson expressed gratitude for Serrano's contributions and confidence in Savman's ability to lead Calvin Klein into its next chapter. 'David is a people-focused leader with a proven ability to elevate brands, execute with a robust operating engine and deliver PVH+ Plan performance, all of which will be critical as we take Calvin Klein into this next chapter,' Larsson said. Savman joined PVH in 2022 and currently serves as the company's global head of operations and chief supply chain officer. In 2024, he also took on the role of interim CEO for PVH Europe, where he was credited with repositioning the region for growth. Savman expressed enthusiasm about his new role, stating, 'I'm thrilled to lead the talented Calvin Klein team. Together with our global partners, we have a powerful opportunity to build on the strong momentum underway by tapping into the brand's iconic DNA to drive even greater desirability as we shape Calvin Klein for future generations.' Under Serrano's leadership, Calvin Klein underwent significant transformation, aligning the brand under a unified global vision and team. Notably, she played a pivotal role in bringing the high-end Calvin Klein Collection back to New York Fashion Week after a six-year hiatus and appointed Veronica Leoni as the brand's first creative director since 2018. This leadership change is part of PVH's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and focus on its core brands, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, as it continues to execute its PVH+ Plan for long-term growth.
Washington Post
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
A new queer style for women
NEW YORK — Queer women may be the audience most talked about but least served by fashion. Yes, the Jil Sander minimalist tailoring of the 1990s, combined with the rise of Prada's ugly-chic, brought to the world's attention what fashion magazines have called 'lesbian chic.' And yes, the big New York Fashion Week show, the revived Calvin Klein Collection under queer designer Veronica Leoni, recalled that era so much that memes circulated over the past several days suggesting Leoni's muses were the 'power lesbians' featured in a 1999 episode of 'Sex and the City.'
New York Times
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Leather Hoodies and Flared Pants, Anyone?
New York Fashion Week offers little by way of men's fashion — the spotlight shines brightest on women's wear here in America's fashion capital. Still, the men's roster was particularly emaciated this season, which wrapped on Tuesday night with Thom Browne. To twist an 'Annie Hall' quip: The men's clothes were forgettable. … Yeah, and such small portions, too. Just one designer, Todd Snyder, a J. Crew alum who has staked his claim as America's last line of defense against the roaring tide of casualization, showed a collection designed entirely for men. His show, inspired by memories of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood of Paris in the 1980s, found Mr. Snyder well in his element, offering a classics-with-a-twist buffet. You want a herringbone tweed suit? Mr. Snyder's got it. A raglan-sleeve overcoat? How about a handful? Corduroy suits with pleats? Say less. There was nothing wrong with his collection (save, maybe, the onslaught of schoolboy shorts, which on a shivering February day felt like a misfire), but there was also little in it that raised the heart rate. Mr. Snyder is a realist. He dresses many men who would break out in hives if you sat them down to watch a runway show. They just want some clean-cut pants. He gives that to them. Still, there were a few, though not enough, swerves in this collection. A striped fuzzy sweater that called to mind Johnny Rotten, and a risqué band-collar black shirt with translucent sleeves had Mr. Snyder wandering away from that safe harbor of 'Would Paul Newman have worn this?' Mr. Snyder has established himself as the kindly guide to the unschooled male shoppers of America. He should trust himself to nudge them a little further. At Calvin Klein Collection, it was pretty evident what direction things were heading: the 1990s. The men's ensembles sprinkled into Veronica Leoni's debut for the label were a capable, if cold, box-ticking of Clinton-era fashions: the graphite gray suiting; the saggy, diluted bluejeans and subdued flannel shirts; and, most of all, square-toe shoes. These to-the-point designs nodded to Calvin Klein's pre-Y2K glory. (Mr. Klein himself, who departed from the brand in 2002, was in attendance in a routine black suit.) But I also perceived a lot of '90s Prada, when its men's designer, Neil Barrett, was offering his winks on prosaic corporate codes. Calvin could have used more winks. As far as debuts go, this was more dutiful than good — an indication that Ms. Leoni had done her homework. The question remains: What man is this for? If you want an unobtrusive, cubicle-rooted suit or a workaday dress shirt, you can find one from Theory or Vince or even Uniqlo — at, from what I'm told, a price far lower than what the new Calvin Klein is sailing in at, making this reboot an uneasy market proposition. The Jamaican designer Edwin Thompson did not stage a runway show for his Theophilio label this season, so I sifted through his collection online. (Mr. Thompson won the CFDA award for emerging designer of the year in 2021, but has been candid about the peaks and valleys of keeping the company afloat.) Viewing it on the screen made me rue that I had not seen the clothes up close, especially some very Sly-and-the-Family-Stone flared trousers. All the more so because the Theophilio collection hit the internet the same day that Kendrick Lamar wore his divisive boot-cut jeans during the Super Bowl halftime show. The flare-aissance is picking up steam. The true surprise of this week came when I received an email from Safa Taghizadeh, the designer of Cobra S.C in Los Angeles. Cobra was a label I used to see regularly around this time of year, but its last Instagram post was from nearly a year ago, and I thought it had stalled out entirely. In a teeny hotel room at the Bowery Hotel, Mr. Taghizadeh explained that the Covid-19 pandemic had hit him hard. Then he split from his partner, Christopher Reynolds, the C in SC. Mr. Taghizadeh kept the label churning, largely as a custom clothier for celebrities. (As I was leaving, Jennifer Lawrence's husband, the art gallerist Cooke Maroney, was on his way in.) Mr. Taghizadeh was making a run at wholesaling the label again. I could see buyers biting. On steel racks wedged at the foot of the bed were generous ribbed knits, bomber jackets in tailoring wools and boxy double-breasted suits in basil green and sepia, making clear how Mr. Taghizadeh had managed to stay afloat by making red carpet attire for actors like Joel Kinnaman and Gavin Leatherwood. There was nothing groundbreaking, but it was enough to reassert Cobra as a label to underline. The strongest men's ideas of the week came from Eckhaus Lattawith just-so straight-leg jeans and crafty-but-classy knits, including a particularly stellar black ribbed cardigan with a cornflower blue hem. Also on display was the label's familiar funky palate of mustards and shiitake browns. But what made this collection so potent was its leather jackets and shoes, produced in partnership with Ecco Kollective, an avant offshoot of the Danish shoe brand. It resulted in oil-slick zip hoodies with scrunchy hems and muscle man sleeves — a very '80s silhouette that called to mind Claude Montana. The buttery jackets hung jauntily on the models, as if made from jersey, not hide. These leathers were lux. So lux that they deserve perhaps the highest praise you can lob to an American brand: They belonged at Paris Fashion Week, not New York.
New York Times
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Kate Moss, Christy Turlington and the New Calvin Klein
There hasn't been a Calvin Klein runway show in almost seven years. Calvin Klein himself has not attended a runway show for his brand in nearly two decades. But on Friday, the brand, now designed by Veronica Leoni, and Mr. Klein returned. It was Day 2 of New York Fashion Week and the official unveiling of the Calvin Klein Collection, the high-end, high-fashion expression of the Klein look. The one that would prove it's not just about jeans and underwear anymore. It was a homecoming in more ways than one. The show was held on the ground-floor gallery space at 205 West 39th Street, the garment district headquarters where Mr. Klein moved in the 1990s and where the company remains. The space was white, as per the original Calvin minimalist aesthetic, with white benches and a white carpet displaying a new logo in the black typeface of the old Obsession perfume ads. Mr. Klein, 82, who sold his company to PVH in 2002 and has mostly been off the fashion grid since then, made his entrance in a natty, black three-piece suit and tie like a good-will ambassador from another time. Seated next to him was his former wife, Kelly Klein, and across the runway were his former muses, Kate Moss and Christy Turlington, in tailored black Calvin coats; Ms. Moss wore a slip dress beneath her coat. Nearby, Mario Sorrenti, who had photographed her naked Obsession ads back when they were a couple, was chatting to friends. 'It's very emotional,' Mr. Klein said of being back in his old office building and seeing his label back on the runway. It was a reminder of the heady days when Calvin Klein defined a certain kind of breathy, urbane American sportswear and drew the attention of the crowd to New York. The air was replete with nostalgia. So, for both good and bad, were the clothes. In an interview before the show, Ms. Leoni said that her goal was to pick up from the day Mr. Klein last walked out the door. She did so, with a dual-gender collection that acted as a warm-up run through the Calvin playbook of the late 1980s and '90s: slick, clean-lined C-suite suiting (check); minimal, cocooning outerwear (check); lingerie cocktail looks (check); grunge plaids and denim (check). You get the idea. There was even a CK One bottle, in honor of the 1994 perfume that once sold 20 bottles a minute, turned into an evening minaudière and a little pendant worn around the neck like a charm. Ms. Leoni proved she understood the heritage and embraced it. The problem is, since Calvin left and the label went through various iterations under his successor designers — and especially since 2018, when PVH abandoned the high-end collection — many other brands, big and small, have done their own versions of Calvin. Some of them very well. His influence helped shape the Row, Toteme, Phoebe Philo and smaller brands like Kallmeyer. At this point, when a romance with all things '90s is a ubiquitous cultural phenomenon, it's understandable that Ms. Leoni would want to pay homage to, and reclaim, the legacy that is rightfully hers. But it's not enough. She needs to do more than simply engage with the past; she needs to take it into the future. Mr. Klein pushed boundaries in so many ways: with the provocation of putting his name on jeans and underwear, with his overtly sexual ads, with his willingness to strip excess away. To really be true to the brand, Ms. Leoni should push forward, too. There were hints of this in her collection. In, for example, the just-rolled-out-of-bed silk pajama suiting for men and women, ice-blue silks that slithered around the body and made comfort dressing more come-hither. Likewise in the blanket-like wool coats and trenches clutched to the torso, including one terrific look made from hundreds of springy organza loops. Also in a strapless evening dress with a sweetheart neckline and a train of silk fringe looped around one forearm like a sheet hastily wrapped around the body because the doorbell had rung in a … well, delicate moment. A gunmetal-gray long-sleeve T-shirt and skirt covered in enameled paillettes that could be brushed forward and back like a reversible sequin pillow offered decoration without frivolity. It practically begged to be touched. She should lean further into her own more twisted instincts. At the end of the show, Ms. Leoni took her bow and then ran over to Mr. Klein to pay her respects. He kissed her on both cheeks, delighted. They had staked their claim. It was a start.
