Pieter Mulier

Belgian designer Pieter Mulier graduated from Antwerp's Royal Academy and spent fifteen years as Raf Simons's right hand — first at Jil Sander, then at Dior, and most prominently as design vice president of Calvin Klein 205W39NYC under the Simons era. After Simons's CK exit, Mulier was named creative director of Alaïa in 2021, becoming the first to lead Azzedine Alaïa's couture house after the founder's death. His Alaïa, debuted in a January 2022 Paris show, refocused the house on sculptural body-conscious cuts, hooded knit dresses and the viral mesh ballet flat — winning him near-unanimous critical acclaim and confirming a long-overdue solo voice within the Richemont stable.