{"id":158928,"date":"2017-04-03T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/jenna-lyons-to-leave-j-crew\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:45:11","slug":"jenna-lyons-to-leave-j-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/jenna-lyons-to-leave-j-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Lyons to leave J Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Lyons, the creative lead at<strong>\u00a0US brand J Crew<\/strong>, is to leave the business and be replaced by its head of women's design.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lyons, president and creative director, has left her post, <a href=\"http:\/\/wwd.com\/business-news\/financial\/j-crew-losses-narrow-2015-mickey-drexler-10849071\/\">according to <\/a><em>WWD,\u00a0<\/em>but will <strong>remain as a consultant for the brand for the rest of the year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Somsack Sikhounmuong<\/strong>, head of women\u2019s design, has been promoted to chief design officer, overseeing the women\u2019s, men\u2019s and \"crewcuts\" design teams and will report into chairman and CEO Millard \"Mickey\" Drexler.<\/p>\n<p>\"It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Jenna as my trusted partner for the past 14 years,\u201d Drexler told <em>WWD<\/em>.\u00a0\u201cShe has made many significant contributions to J Crew and has built an incredibly talented team.\"<\/p>\n<p>Lyons has held her current position since 2012 and was <strong>credited with bringing J Crew to fashion prominence<\/strong> by dressing, among others, Michelle Obama and her children. As well as raising the profile of the brand she became a well-known figure in her own right\u00a0often appearing in the style pages of newspapers and fashion magazines.<\/p>\n<p>However J Crew has been <strong>hit by the slowdown in US retail of late<\/strong> and is also grappling with a\u00a0$1.5bn debt pile. Its recently reported results for 2016 show<strong> sales down\u00a03.2% to $2.4bn<\/strong> (and like for likes down 7%) with losses of\u00a0$23.5m (compared to a loss of $1.5bn in the prior year).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":130158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10585,9762,6],"tags":[5902,11767,11768,35,11769],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jenna Lyons to leave J Crew - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jenna Lyons, the creative lead at\u00a0US brand J Crew, is to leave the business and be replaced by its head of women&#039;s design. 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