{"id":79516,"date":"2016-08-04T04:50:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T08:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=79516"},"modified":"2016-08-04T04:50:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T08:50:47","slug":"calvin-klein-names-raf-simons-new-chief-creative-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/08\/04\/calvin-klein-names-raf-simons-new-chief-creative-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Klein names Raf Simons as new chief creative officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Calvin Klein welcomes Raf Simons as the brand\u2019s appointed Chief Creative Officer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GZedmLI21x\">https:\/\/t.co\/GZedmLI21x<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/myQA8rME5G\">pic.twitter.com\/myQA8rME5G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CALVIN KLEIN (@CalvinKlein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalvinKlein\/status\/760475624570023938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Calvin Klein Inc. has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as chief creative officer of the brand.<\/p>\n<p>Simons, a former creative director at Christian Dior who is known for his minimalist and linear style, will oversee all aspects of design, global marketing, communications and visual creative services. His first collection will make its debut for the fall 2017 season.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows Calvin Klein\u2019s announcement in April that Calvin Klein Collections designers Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli would leave the company, reflecting a global strategy that brings all the Calvin Klein brands under one creative vision.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Klein, owned by PVH Corp., has said the evolution began with the 2013 reacquisition of its jeans and underwear businesses by buying Warnaco Group. PVH also owns Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen and Izod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Calvin Klein Inc. has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as chief creative officer of the brand. Simons, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10479,11862,11861],"class_list":["post-79516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fashion-and-beauty","tag-calvin-klein","tag-pvh-corp","tag-raf-simons","mauthors-anne-dinnocenzio","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}