Like the recent swell of fashion designers abruptly
leaving luxury label creative director posts, I wonder if this is comparative to the art world's version: gallery directors abandoning institutions in the midst of huge renovations or new building plans to take over a recently vacated, higher profile director position?
Ong, a former creative director at Jimmy Choo,
left her career in
luxury goods to start an eponymous
label that produces shoes from upcycled rubber, leather offcuts, charcoal and bamboo.