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Balenciaga Reportedly Dropped Their Longtime PR Firm Last Year Because of Attention Paid to Versace
Balenciaga Reportedly Dropped Their Longtime PR Firm Last Year Because of Attention Paid to Versace February 25, 2011 10:32 am >> Last May, when Balenciaga severed its 12-year relationship with public relations firm PR Consulting, rumors circulated that it was the result of a Balenciaga designer leaving to work for one of the firm's other clients and that some of the client's designs were too similar to Balenciaga.
Vera Wang President Mario Grauso and Wife Anne Have Split
Vera Wang President Mario Grauso and Wife Anne Have Split October 15, 2010 2:04 pm >> Mario Grauso, the president of Vera Wang and former president of The Raul Puig Group (which owns Carolina Herrera and Nina Ricci) until he left the company in 2009, and his wife of 18 years, Anne Grauso, have split, she confirms.
September 23, 2009 12:42 pm >> Mario Grauso Moves from Nina Ricci and Carolina Herrera to Vera Wang —Mario Grauso, former president of Puig Fashion Group overseeing Nina Ricci, Paco Rabanne, and Carolina Herrera, where he was credited for forging the Renee Zellweger-Herrera red carpet relationship, has moved on to Vera Wang.
August 24, 2009 2:44 pm >> Is Renee Zellweger's Red Carpet Partnership with Carolina Herrera Over?
Theyskens's Successor at Nina Ricci To Be Named Soon
Theyskens's Successor at Nina Ricci To Be Named Soon April 2, 2009 4:53 pm >> Nina Ricci is currently in a state of transition — Olivier Theyskens officially left the house earlier this month, and although Peter Copping's name has been thrown around as the replacement of choice, nothing has been made official.  Apparently several staffers, including PR director Kate Etter, also left the brand with Theyskens.Today, Mario Grauso, president of Ricci owner Puig, verified that there are "no plans [for] a hiatus at Ricci," adding that the company "will announce a new designer within the next few weeks."  According to Fashion Week Daily, a well-placed industry insider is "99% sure" that Copping will be tapped, but Grauso would not confirm anything, and when prodded about a possible Copping appearance at the Costume Institute Gala, replied, "I have not yet invited people for the Met."
Olivier Theyskens Still "Totally Committed" to Nina Ricci
Olivier Theyskens Still "Totally Committed" to Nina Ricci January 13, 2009 12:24 pm >> Even though some think Olivier Theyskens's standing at Nina Ricci is tenuous because of his tendancy to produce expensive gowns, unmindful of current economic conditions, as of yesterday, he didn't seem worried — not yet anyway: “I am totally committed to Nina Ricci.
January 15, 2009 3:31 pm >> INSIDER WIRE —Marc Jacobs might be losing his right-hand man at Louis Vuitton, Peter Copping, who recently met with Mario Grauso, president of Puig.  This could mean Grauso is thinking of replacing Olivier Theyskens with Copping when his Nina Ricci contract runs out in October, or he could be looking at him as a successor to Carolina Herrera.
Fashion Darling Olivier Theyskens Commits Fashion Don't
Fashion Darling Olivier Theyskens Commits Fashion Don't June 1, 2008 5:01 pm >> It has already been well-reported that Sarah Jessica Parker wore the same Nina Ricci dress to the New York Sex and the City premiere last week as Vogue contributing editor and socialite Lauren Santo Domingo wore to the Costume Insitute Gala on May 5.  More interesting, however, is the story behing the mix-up — as Cathy Horyn reports, both Nina Ricci designer Olivier Theyskens and Mario Grauso, the president of the fashion division at Puig, which owns Nina Ricci, assured SJP that the gown had not been worn in anything but magazine shoots.  When she came to find out that wasn't the case, she felt deceived: In the big picture, this is not important, but there is a relationship between the entertainment industry and fashion .