{"id":163049,"date":"2020-02-12T16:34:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/marks-spencer-names-alex-dimitriu-as-new-head-of-menswear-buying\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:06:54","slug":"marks-spencer-names-alex-dimitriu-as-new-head-of-menswear-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/marks-spencer-names-alex-dimitriu-as-new-head-of-menswear-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks &#038; Spencer names Alex Dimitriu as new Head of Menswear Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marks &amp; Spencer has named former Miss Selfridge director\u00a0<strong>Alex Dimitriu as its new Head of Menswear Buying<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dimitriu has<strong> held a number of senior roles with big name high street retailers<\/strong> and her latest appointment marks a return to Marks &amp; Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 2018, she held the role of<strong> buying and design director at Arcadia's Miss Selfridge.<\/strong> Previous to this role, Dimitriu was womenswear director at New Look and also held roles in merchandising, buying and design during her time there.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Dimitriu joined M&amp;S as a Senior Buyer and then went onto become the Head of Buying between 2013 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Wes Taylor, Director of Menswear, at M&amp;S said:\u00a0\"M&amp;S is changing and we're pleased that the scale and pace of our transformation is attracting both new and returning talent to M&amp;S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\"Alex is a brilliant buyer and brings with her a great sense of style and strong leadership skills.<\/strong> Working closely with Karen Hall who joined us last year as Head of Design and the wider menswear management team she will help drive our strategy for M&amp;S menswear.\"<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is a former managing director at Arcadia's Burton brand and joined M&amp;S in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":129509,"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":[5,9762,6,10494],"tags":[15982,15983,9908,3211,12879],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Marks &amp; Spencer names Alex Dimitriu as new Head of Menswear Buying - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marks &amp; Spencer has named former Miss Selfridge director\u00a0Alex Dimitriu as its new Head of Menswear Buying. 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