{"id":159527,"date":"2017-11-24T19:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/topshop-topman-name-new-global-design-director\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:48:08","slug":"topshop-topman-name-new-global-design-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/topshop-topman-name-new-global-design-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Topshop & Topman name new global design director"},"content":{"rendered":"
Topshop and Topman have appointed Anthony Cuthbertson as global design director<\/strong> and he will join the flagship Arcadia brands on 2 January.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cuthbertson replaced Jacqui Markham who assumed a consultancy position with the brands six months ago. His appointment follows a raft of changes at the top of the brands, kicked off my the resignation of Topshop's long-standing managing director Mary Homer<\/strong>, who left to join The White Company as CEO in March of this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n In July Paul Price<\/strong> was named as chief executive of both Topshop and Topman<\/a> having previously been with Burberry for 10 years as chief merchandising officer. Following the appointment of Price, David Hagglund<\/strong>,\u00a0founder of a Stockholm-based creative agency which counts H&M and Hugo Boss as clients and a former art director at Vogue Paris<\/em>, was appointed as creative director across both brands<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hagglund's arrival in September led to the departure of Topshop creative director Kate Phelan and Topman creative director Gordon Richardson.\u00a0Phelan<\/strong>, a former creative director at British\u00a0Vogue<\/em>, had\u00a0joined Topshop as global creative director in 2011\u00a0<\/strong>and later it was announced she would return to Vogue<\/em> as a contributing editor while retaining her post at Topshop.<\/p>\n Richardson is one of the best-known names in British menswear<\/strong> and had been with Topman for 17 years and had been a committee member for London Fashion Week's Mens.<\/p>\n Cuthbertson's career includes stints with Victoria Beckham, Mulberry and Sass & Bide but most recently he was design director at Just Cavalli.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":131235,"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":[5,10585,9762,6,10494],"tags":[12481,11120,12175,12089,35,10281,9665],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n