Who Is Louise Trotter, New Bottega Veneta Creative Director?

Bottega Veneta will kick off 2025 with not just a new creative director, but a female one: British designer Louise Trotter. She succeeds Matthieu Blazy — who nabbed the big job at Chanel, as announced this week — and will become one of the very few women leading a major luxury brand in fashion today.

Trotter will be Bottega’s third creative director since 2018, when former creative director Tomas Maier left the minimalist luxury brand...