DVF finally announced that Nathan Jenden has been named the new Chief Design Officer and Vice President after Jonathan Saunders resigned as the Chief Creative Officer at DVF back in December 2017. Jenden has returned to the brand that he was previously employed at for 10 years until 2011.
“Nathan is an extremely talented and technically skillful designer who has a great gift surrounding himself with young, emerging talent,” founder Diane von Furstenberg said in a statement. “It is with joy and pride that I look forward to welcoming Nathan back at DVF.”
Jenden will report directly to Dian von Furstenberg and DVF’s board. Jenden’s very first collection for the brand will be the Fall/Winter 2018, and it will be shown in February.
“I want to make great clothes that resonate with women. I see DVF as being more relevant today than it ever was in its message of self-empowerment while being dynamic and modern. I want to give the DVF girl what she wants, when she wants it, and with the joie de vivre and sense of purpose that epitomizes Diane, DVF the brand and the spirit of women today.”
Adding to the excitement, the brand’s former president, Paula Sutter (who departed back in Dec. 31, 2013), will rejoin the board. Sutter started working for the brand back in 1999, just after it was brought back to life in 1998. She has been widely praised for helping grow the brand’s business internationally.
