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This week, when Kering appointed Seán McGirr as creative director of Alexander McQueen, the Paris-based luxury group must have hoped that tapping a protegé of star designer Jonathan Anderson would win swift approval from the fashion community.
Instead, the company ended up on the receiving end of social media backlash as a composite image of their cast of creative directors across brands including Gucci and Balenciaga went viral: The…
