{"id":70772,"date":"2026-09-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=70772"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:00:00","slug":"st-john-names-humberto-leon-creative-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=70772","title":{"rendered":"St. John Names Humberto Leon Creative Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">SHANGHAI<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">Sept. 21, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Lanvin Group (NYSE: LANV, the &#8220;Group&#8221;), a global luxury fashion group, today announced that Humberto Leon has been named Creative Director of St. John.<\/p>\n<p>Leon co-founded the influential fashion and retail concept Opening Ceremony with Carol Lim in 2002. From 2011 to 2019, the pair served as Creative Directors of Kenzo, bringing a bold, contemporary identity to the French fashion house. Before joining St. John, Leon served as Creative Director of KATSEYE, overseeing the global girl group&#8217;s visual identity and image.<\/p>\n<p>Leon&#8217;s appointment marks a new chapter for St. John, building on the brand&#8217;s nearly 65-year heritage while bringing a fresh perspective to its signatures, including knitwear, sportswear and jewelry. The partnership reflects a shared California sensibility, respect for craftsmanship and belief in clothing that feels as good as it looks.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Lanvin Group<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lanvin Group is a leading global luxury fashion group headquartered in\u00a0Shanghai, China\u00a0and\u00a0Milan, Italy, managing iconic brands worldwide including Lanvin, Wolford,\u00a0Sergio Rossi\u00a0and St. John Knits. Harnessing the power of its unique strategic alliance of industry-leading partners in the luxury fashion sector, Lanvin Group strives to expand the global footprint of its portfolio brands and achieve sustainable growth through strategic investment and extensive operational know-how, combined with an understanding and access to the fastest-growing luxury fashion markets in the world. The shares of Lanvin Group are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol &#8220;LANV&#8221;. For more information about Lanvin Group, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanvin-group.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.lanvin-group.com<\/a>, and to view\u00a0Lanvin Group&#8217;s investor presentation, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ir.lanvin-group.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/ir.lanvin-group.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Enquiries:<br \/><\/b><u>Media &amp; Investors<br \/><\/u><b>Lanvin Group<br \/><\/b>Ross Luo<br \/><a href=\"mailto:ross.luo@lanvin-group.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ross.luo@lanvin-group.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coco Wang\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"mailto:coco.wang@lanvin-group.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">coco.wang@lanvin-group.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">SHANGHAI<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">Sept. 21, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Lanvin Group (NYSE: LANV, the &#8220;Group&#8221;), a global luxury fashion group, today announced that Humberto Leon has been named Creative Director of St. John.<\/p>\n<p>Leon co-founded the influential fashion and retail concept Opening Ceremony with Carol Lim in 2002. From 2011 to 2019, the pair served as Creative Directors of Kenzo, bringing a bold, contemporary identity to the French fashion house. Before joining St. John, Leon served as Creative Director of KATSEYE, overseeing the global girl group&#8217;s visual identity and image.<\/p>\n<p>Leon&#8217;s appointment marks a new chapter for St. John, building on the brand&#8217;s nearly 65-year heritage while bringing a fresh perspective to its signatures, including knitwear, sportswear and jewelry. The partnership reflects a shared California sensibility, respect for craftsmanship and belief in clothing that feels as good as it looks.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Lanvin Group<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lanvin Group is a leading global luxury fashion group headquartered in\u00a0Shanghai, China\u00a0and\u00a0Milan, Italy, managing iconic brands worldwide including Lanvin, Wolford,\u00a0Sergio Rossi\u00a0and St. John Knits. Harnessing the power of its unique strategic alliance of industry-leading partners in the luxury fashion sector, Lanvin Group strives to expand the global footprint of its portfolio brands and achieve sustainable growth through strategic investment and extensive operational know-how, combined with an understanding and access to the fastest-growing luxury fashion markets in the world. The shares of Lanvin Group are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol &#8220;LANV&#8221;. For more information about Lanvin Group, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanvin-group.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.lanvin-group.com<\/a>, and to view\u00a0Lanvin Group&#8217;s investor presentation, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ir.lanvin-group.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/ir.lanvin-group.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Enquiries:<br \/><\/b><u>Media &amp; Investors<br \/><\/u><b>Lanvin Group<br \/><\/b>Ross Luo<br \/><a href=\"mailto:ross.luo@lanvin-group.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ross.luo@lanvin-group.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coco Wang\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"mailto:coco.wang@lanvin-group.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">coco.wang@lanvin-group.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}