Fashion career profile

Gianfranco Gianangeli

Gianfranco Gianangeli is an Italian luxury executive and Chief Executive Officer of Balenciaga. His appointment took effect on 2 January 2025, succeeding Cédric Charbit, who moved to Saint Laurent. Before Balenciaga, Gianangeli held merchandising and retail roles across Italian and French luxury houses, including Chief Commercial Officer at Saint Laurent and a previous CEO role at Maison Margiela. His Balenciaga profile is explicitly an executive record: Pierpaolo Piccioli’s creative-director mandate is represented separately, as are the house’s former creative eras. This avoids treating a commercial or operating appointment as design authorship. Balenciaga is part of Kering, and Kering’s consolidated results are therefore kept in the parent-group context rather than attributed to Gianangeli or to Balenciaga as complete standalone financial data.

Role
Chief Executive Officer, Balenciaga
Nationality
Italian
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