Meryll Rogge is Marni's new creative director Belgian designer joins OTB team

After several speculations released yesterday, the OTB Group has officially announced that Meryll Rogge will be the next creative director of Marni. The news comes just a few weeks after Francesco Risso left the maison’s ateliers and two weeks after the designer’s win at the prestigious Andam Prize 2025. Graduated in 2008 from the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Rogge previously worked for several years at Marc Jacobs and Dries Van Noten before launching her eponymous brand in 2020, to then win the Belgian Fashion Awards: Emerging Talent of the Year the following year. «It is a great pleasure to welcome Meryll to Marni,» commented Marni’s CEO, Stefano Rosso. «She is an exceptional creative talent and an inspiring woman, whose vision and expertise will play a key role in shaping the future of this amazing brand.» Since the launch of her brand, Rogge’s work has received major recognition from the international press for its focus on sustainability and craftsmanship, as well as for her poetic and light-hearted aesthetic vision. Through deconstruction and upcycling, the designer proposes unique yet nostalgic silhouettes anchored in past eras. Last March, Meryll Rogge held her first official runway show, a collection inspired by vintage wallpaper prints and distressed artworks. With this new announcement, the much-criticized lack of female creative directors leading major fashion houses shifts slightly (until June, it was believed that Ellen Hodakova would succeed Risso): now we just have to wait and see how the Belgian designer will interpret Marni’s dreamy and fantastical heritage.

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