{"id":10809,"date":"2022-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2022-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:00:00","slug":"leena-nair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/th\/2022\/01\/20\/leena-nair\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Leena Nair, Chanel\u2019s New CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new head is set to lead the iconic house that made the little black dress a wardrobe staple<\/h3>\n

Replacing Alain Wetheimer, Chanel’s co-owner, Leena Nair joins an industry still reeling from the global pandemic. Customers are still avoiding retail stores, and moving to online shopping to lessen direct contact with other individuals. But unlike its competitors within the luxury industry, Chanel doesn’t sell its handbags online. Coupled with the death of Chanel’s artistic director Karl Lagerfeld in 2019, Nair has inherited some big hurdles to jump over in shaping the artistic vision of Chanel and continuing its legacy.<\/p>\n

Still, that doesn’t seem to be slowing Nair down. In her interview with the World Economic Forum, she was clear that being the “first” in her roles isn’t new. At Unilever, apart from being the youngest ever chief, she was also the first female and first of Asian descent. Stepping into the top spot at Chanel, Nair is set to be the luxury brand’s first woman of colour to lead, and is one of few women of colour holding exclusive leadership roles in the industry.<\/p>\n

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