Fendi Names Joanna Dubin, Valentina Lucaj to New Posts
- LUISA ZARGANI
- Jul 24, 2024
- 2 min read
Dubin will become worldwide managing director of retail and wholesale, succeeding Giuseppe Oliveri, and Lucaj was appointed president of Fendi Americas.
Joanna Dubin COURTESY OF FENDI
MILAN — The management changes at Fendi continue.
After the May appointment of Pierre-Emmanuel Angeloglou as the company’s new chief executive officer, Fendi is naming Joanna Dubin worldwide managing director of retail and wholesale, effective Sept. 2. She is currently president of Fendi Americas and is expected to move to Rome, where Fendi is based, reporting to Angeloglou.
Dubin will succeed Giuseppe Oliveri, who will exit at the end of September to pursue career opportunities outside of Fendi parent LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Group. Fendi’s former CEO Serge Brunschwig tapped Oliveri in May 2018, bringing him to the Rome-based brand from Dior China, where he was general manager.
Dubin will be succeeded by Valentina Lucaj, who will join Fendi on Sept. 16. Based in New York, Lucaj will report to Dubin.
Dubin joined Fendi in January 2019 from Louis Vuitton Americas, which she joined in 2015 as senior vice president, merchandising in New York. Prior to that, she was based in Japan as CEO of Gilt Groupe Japan, having earlier been general merchandising manager.
Previously, Dubin was senior director of digital merchandising and planning at Coach, and before that was with Ralph Lauren as senior director of merchandising for Asia and Japan for the women’s, men’s, home and children’s categories. She started her career in the buying division of Bergdorf Goodman.
In addition to being Fendi’s new CEO, Angeloglou has retained his role as managing director of LVMH Fashion Group.
Brunschwig was named chairman and CEO of Fendi in February 2018 and he is expected to be taking on new responsibilities within the LVMH Group.
Fendi is gearing up for a major milestone next year, celebrating its 100th anniversary with a slate of events.
Last month, the company unveiled a high-end fragrance collection consisting of seven scents that pay tribute to the company’s history and key members of the Fendi extended family.
The new Fendi fragrances. COURTESY OF FENDI
Each fragrance was inspired by a personality, including the house’s matriarch, Adele Casagrande Fendi, who kickstarted the business in 1925 by opening a fur and leather goods workshop in Rome with husband Edoardo Fendi.
Fendi will open Milan Fashion Week, running Sept. 17 to 23, although the official calendar has yet to be released. The brand sat out Paris Couture Week, which ran June 24 to 27 as part of a rescheduling of its shows. It is understood the decision was made in alignment with Kim Jones, Fendi’s artistic director of couture and womenswear collections, as well as Silvia Venturini Fendi, artistic director of accessories and menswear collections, and her daughter Delfina Delettrez Fendi, jewelry creative director, who are also involved in couture collections.
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