Davide Renne is Moschino’s new Creative Director.

Moschino has officially stepped into a new chapter. Taking on a new beginning of Franco Moschino’s playful and creative legacy, designer Davide Renne has officially been announced as the fashion house’s newest creative director. In a statement shared on Monday morning, Renne’s appointment was officially announced, taking on this role after a two decade tenure at Gucci as Head of Womenswear, working closely with Alessandro Michele and developing the new, freeing sense of Italian style.

“Franco Moschino had a nickname for his design studio: la sala giochi, the playroom. This resonates deeply with me: what fashion – Italian fashion especially, and the House of Moschino most of all – can accomplish with its enormous power should be accomplished with a sense of play, of joy. A sense of discovery, and experimentation.” expressed Renne in his letter about his appointment. ”My entire life has taken me through a journey of discovery: after all, I was born in 1977 in Follonica, Tuscany, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, a magical body of water – according to Greek mythology, the cliffs above the Tyrrhenian housed the four winds kept by Aeolus.”

“After graduation I worked at Alessandro Dell’Acqua: Alessandro was my first teacher and mentor in fashion and then I moved on to Gucci for two extraordinary decades as Head Designer for Womenswear. There, I spent the past 8 years with Alessandro Michele who taught me to dream bigger and pushed me further ahead, and helped me to make my dreams come true. Fashion, like life, is about discovering ourselves. I dislike fashion that dictates answers – I’m more inclined to find the right question, then the answers come in the designer’s dialogue with our audience: fashion is inherently bespoke.

Being tasked of taking charge of the House created by a genius of Italian design and contemporary art is an honor that I don’t take lightly. I realized that Franco ceases to appear an outlier only once you consider his work not outside but beyond the bounds of fashion, as a contemporary artist. He was the creator of an astonishing modern concept of luxury that still resonates today – his work is present even if he’s not here. Franco taught us that fashion cannot be explained, can only be lived because it’s essentially, intimately, about life – about the world around us. This is, to me, the poetry of fashion. I see fashion as a dialogue where the creation of beauty happens.”

Renne’s appointment comes into full force from November 1st, as he takes on the task of designing the very first collection for Moschino, which will be showcased during Milan Fashion Week in February 2024.