These personalities who left us this year<

By Sharon Camara

Dec 28 2021

A few days before the end of the year, FashionUnited brings you a retrospective of the facts that marked the fashion industry in 2021.

A look back at these personalities who left us in 2021.

satya paul

Indian fashion designer Satya Paul, whose namesake brand modernized the traditional saree with contemporary prints, has died at the age of 78, his family has announced. A devotee of spirituality from a young age, Satya Paul died on January 6, 2021 at an ashram in the southern Indian city of Coimbatore, where he had been recovering from a stroke since last month, his son said. son Puneet Nanda. Read more…

Philippe Venet

Couturier and fashion designer, Philippe Venet died on February 24, 2021 at the American Hospital in Paris. Aged 90, the causes of his death were not communicated. Rewarded with the 1985 Dé d'or, a prize awarded to haute couture designers, Philippe Venet was trained at the Professional School of Tailors in Lyon. Born in the same town in 1931, he quickly followed an apprenticeship with a workshop that had an exclusive license to make models for the Balenciaga house. His technique of cutting and sewing will be part of the tradition of this one. He then continued his career at Schiaparelli where he joined in 1951 before joining the couturier Hubert de Givenchy. He opened his own house in 1961 and became a member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne the following year. Read more…

Alber Elbaz

Alber Elbaz, former artistic director of the Lanvin house and recognized figure in the world of fashion, died on April 24, 2021. The information was transmitted by a press release from the Richemont group, with which the 59-year-old designer had just launched a women's fashion brand. In January, Alber Elbaz returned to the Paris fashion scene, after several years of absence and his departure from Lanvin in 2015, where he had been artistic director since 2001. The launch of the new brand, AZ Factory, co -founded with the Swiss group Richemont, took place as part of Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. The label offers luxury ready-to-wear designed for all body types. Read more…

Louis-Philippe de Gagoue

A rising figure in fashion and art, Louis Philippe de Gagoue died on August 20, 2021, at the age of 30. Of Ivorian-Cameroonian origin, the one who has more than ten thousand subscribers on Instagram was a jack-of-all-trades. A photographer, stylist, blogger and artistic director, he had been flirting with fashion for more than ten years. The real spotlight of his career came when Franca Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue from 1988 until his death in 2016, shared a snap of the young man on her Instagram account with the caption "He deserves the top row of fashion week ". Since then, collaborations have multiplied with the magazines Vogue, Glamour, Numéro and also the luxury brands Chanel, Prada, Versace, Edun, Loza Maléombho. Read more…

Virgil Abloh

Star of the millennials and king of luxury streetwear, the American designer Virgil Abloh, creator of the men's collections of the Louis Vuitton house, died on November 28, 2021, of cancer at the age of 41, announced the LVMH group. , parent company of Vuitton. Virgil Abloh's illness, which he had been fighting for two years, had not been made public. "He has chosen to endure his fight in private since his diagnosis in 2019" of cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare malignant tumor located in the heart, his family explained in a post on the designer's Instagram account. Read more…