Kering has named Romain Spitzer as the new CEO of Bottega Veneta, with his appointment effective September 1, 2026. Spitzer arrives from LVMH Beauty, where he most recently served as president and CEO of Fragrance Group, overseeing a portfolio that included Parfums Givenchy, Kenzo, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Acqua di Parma, Loewe Perfumes, Officine Universelle Buly, and New Ventures.
The appointment closes a search process that began several months ago following the January announcement that former CEO Bartolomeo Rongone would exit the role. Rongone left Bottega Veneta on March 31 after six years to join Moncler as group CEO. Spitzer’s arrival completes the house’s leadership structure at a moment when Kering is placing significant commercial expectations on the brand.
“Romain has the leadership, vision, and international experience to unlock the next phase of the house’s development,” said Kering CEO Luca de Meo in a statement. “I am confident he will build on its extraordinary strengths and take Bottega Veneta to the next level.” That language is specific and purposeful.
De Meo has been public about his ambitions for Bottega Veneta since Kering’s Capital Markets Day in April, where he described the house’s next chapter as being about “scaling without compromising its essence.” The plan includes increasing brand visibility, particularly in China, accelerating the pace of shows, and more than doubling non-leather good revenues by 2030 through reinforced costume and fine jewelry and what De Meo described as a distinctive gifting and art of living proposition.
The Leadership Spitzer Is Joining
The executive joins from LVMH, where he currently serves as president and CEO of Fragrance Group at LVMH Beauty. https://t.co/v5rQHemdBt
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Spitzer steps into a house that has genuine creative momentum. Creative director Louise Trotter’s debut show in September 2025 and her sophomore collection in February 2026 were both well received by critics and buyers, establishing a design direction that the house can now build commercially around. The combination of a new CEO with Spitzer’s specific background in fragrance and beauty, alongside a creative director who has already demonstrated her vision, is the kind of leadership pairing that Kering needs to execute its stated growth ambitions for the brand.
Bottega Veneta posted 3% growth to €1.7 billion in revenues in 2025, and the house recorded the strongest growth among Kering’s fashion houses in the first quarter of 2026, according to CFO Armelle Poulou. Kering changed its segment reporting at the start of 2026 and no longer breaks out individual house revenues beyond Gucci, but Poulou’s Q1 comment confirms that Bottega Veneta is moving in the right direction at the precise moment the group is investing more heavily in its growth.
Spitzer’s fragrance and beauty expertise is also directly relevant to the revenue diversification strategy De Meo outlined at Capital Markets Day. Growing non-leather goods revenues to include jewelry, gifting, and art of living propositions requires exactly the kind of category management experience Spitzer has built across his LVMH Beauty tenure.
The Broader Kering Context
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Spitzer’s appointment is one move within a larger strategic reset that Luca de Meo has been orchestrating at Kering since taking the CEO role. The group’s Capital Markets Day presentation in April laid out a transformation plan built around accelerating the pace of brand development, increasing marketing investment in key markets, and repositioning individual houses toward clearer and more scalable identities. Bottega Veneta is one of the houses that de Meo has identified as having exceptional growth potential relative to its current scale, “one of the strongest and most distinctive houses in luxury, with exceptional craftsmanship, a unique creative identity and remarkable growth potential,” as he put it in Wednesday’s statement.
The house’s intrecciato leather craftsmanship, its quiet luxury positioning, and the creative credibility Trotter has established in two collections give Spitzer a foundation that most incoming CEOs would welcome. His challenge is the one de Meo identified at Capital Markets Day: scaling the brand while preserving the essence that makes it worth scaling. That balance is the defining strategic question at Bottega Veneta in 2026, and Spitzer will begin answering it on September 1.
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