Natacha Ramsay-Levi leaves French house Chloe

Natacha Ramsay-Levi, the imaginative director of Chloe, offers announced that she is stepping down.

After four years at the helm of the French luxury house, Ramsey said in a statement that due to the recent medical, social and financial turmoil of the pandemic, she's “thought about the changes I want to see in our industry and how to better align them with my own creative, intellectual and mental values.”

“It really is this reflection which makes me consider my potential differently and desire to pursue new possibilities,” Ramsay-Levi says.

Her last express for the home was in September. Versions were filmed via Zoom in regions of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, before bringing to the runway. Beamed onto displays around the venue, it aimed to signify how our lives have shifted over the past few months. However, despite the success of the show, it was noted that many of her design team were leaving, giving surge to rumours Ramsay-Levi too may be on the move.

Her tenure in the label features been well-received critically, seeing that she sought to build on Chloe’s edginess, taking the label down a less commercial route. Revisiting the 1970s hippie look made famous by past creative director Karl Lagerfeld, Ramsay-Levi maintained ultra feminine core of the brand, but added unexpected twists with styling and prints stated in collaboration with female performers.

Before taking over at Chloe, Ramsay-Levi performed at Balenciaga under then designer Nicolas Ghesquiere, who she briefly followed to Louis Vuitton. She required over Chloe in 2017 from Clare Waight Keller, who left to brain up Givenchy.

The challenges of the pandemic contain laid heavily on the blissful luxury industry, with various designers using the enforced pause of the confinement to push for a shift in the relentless timetable of a fresh collection every three months. Ramsay-Levi was among the voices asking for a fresh approach.

Chloe is expected to announce a good new innovative director soon.