For its newly created US head of model and communications position, Chanel has enlisted a magnificence veteran.
Katie Welch, the chief advertising officer at Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty, will take the division’s helm on Jan. 5. She will even be a part of the posh label’s US administration committee.
A seasoned magnificence government, Welch beforehand served as the overall supervisor for magnificence at The Honest Company and chief advertising officer at Hourglass Cosmetics, the place she labored previous to and after the make-up model’s acquisition by Unilever. She might be overseeing built-in model and firm communications for the complete Chanel model within the US, together with magnificence and vogue. She will report back to Chanel US president Stéphane Blanchard.
Welch stays at Rare Beauty till subsequent week and might be based mostly in New York for the brand new place. Communications at Chanel within the US are presently being overseen in an interim capability by Adina Kagan, head of technique and transformation, who will stay in her present position.
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