Introducing the Vogue Business People Moves Tracker, a running list highlighting the key executive appointments and exits across the fashion and beauty industries. From CEOs to creative directors to other key C-suite hires, we track the leadership shifts that are reshaping the industry.
November 2025
Hermès appoints Anne-Sarah Panhard to lead perfume and beauty
Background: Anne-Sarah Panhard, previously managing director of Hermès’s homeware division, has been appointed managing director of perfumes and beauty. She succeeds Agnès de Villers, who had held the position since May 2015 and has moved on to become VP of leather goods and saddlery. Panhard joined the French house in 2011, where she became managing director of Hermès France, overseeing 28 stores and 700 employees. Since 2018, she headed up creation and product development across decorative objects, tableware, furniture and textiles. The move follows news that Hermès’s perfume and beauty sales fell 7.2% in the third quarter of 2025.
Effective: November 1, 2025.
Skims appoints Dawn Vitale as chief merchandising officer
Background: Dawn Vitale, who hails from a background in merchandising and scaling global brands, has been appointed chief merchandising officer of Skims. In driving innovation across its core categories and refining product assortments, Vitale has been recruited to help shape Skims’s next phase of global growth. The executive joins from Levi Strauss & Co., where she was most recently CMO of Levi’s, having launched growth strategies that expanded the brand’s reach and diversified the portfolio beyond denim. Before this, Vitale led merchandising at PVH Corp., as well as at Gap Inc., where she spent nearly a decade working across product storytelling and consumer engagement.
Effective: November 6, 2025.
Company comments: “We are thrilled to welcome Dawn as our new chief merchandising officer. Her deep understanding of both data and design, combined with a passion for elevated product experiences, makes her the ideal leader to help Skims evolve its core offering while expanding thoughtfully into new categories and markets,” said CEO and co-founder Jens Grede.
Joëlle Grunberg named North America president of Tory Burch
Background: Tory Burch has appointed Joëlle Grunberg as president of North America, a role in which she will be responsible for the region’s retail, e-commerce and wholesale operations. Grunberg, who succeeds Christophe de Pous, will home in on the brand’s largest market and build on the region as a base for global expansion. Grunberg joins from McKinsey, where she was a partner in the management consultancy’s fashion and luxury retail practice. Prior to this, however, she served in executive leadership roles at the likes of Lacoste and Galeries Lafayette. Grunberg will report to chief executive officer Pierre-Yves Roussel.
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