Her stepson reportedly has been charged with her murder after allegedly admitting to shooting the art collector and philanthropist in front of her home in Belgium.
Enter Ackermann. He brings to the Ullens table significant blue-chip creative capital having produced several collections of high genius, along with some that were merely fantastic. The Colombian-French, Antwerp-trained designer comes with a hefty credit line in social capital, too: Tilda Swinton has long been his champion-in-chief, and she more recently recruited Timothée Chalamet to the cause. His appearance in the audience at Ackermann’s most recent show a year ago this month significantly raised both the collection’s profile and certain Vogue Runway editors’ heart-rates. And yet despite being to some “the closest thing to what an auteur is in fashion” (as Chalamet said of Ackermann at his last show for Berluti before that gig was cut short in the seismic post-Kim Jones to Dior LVMH menswear reshuffle of 2018), things have not all been great for his label of late. Financial woes last year forced its Antwerp-based owner Anne Chapelle to sell Ann Demeulemester, and she to