{"id":39837,"date":"2021-12-16T03:56:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2021\/dec\/15\/new-chanel-chief-fashion-leena-nair-unilever"},"modified":"2021-12-16T03:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:56:16","slug":"new-chanel-chief-could-signal-end-of-colonialist-approach-to-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39837","title":{"rendered":"New Chanel chief could signal end of \u2018colonialist approach\u2019 to fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leena Nair joins brand from Unilever where she was first Asian, first female and youngest HR chief<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of Chanel\u2019s new chief executive this week marks a departure for the French luxury brand, one that is being praised as a landmark for diversity within the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Leena Nair makes moves from being the global head of human resources at the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever, where she had worked for 30 years, to taking the reins at the 112-year-old fashion house founded by Coco Chanel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2021\/dec\/15\/new-chanel-chief-fashion-leena-nair-unilever\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leena Nair joins brand from Unilever where she was first Asian, first female and youngest HR chiefThe announcement of Chanel\u2019s new chief executive this week marks a departure for the French luxury brand, one that is being praised as a landmark for dive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,576,833,62,78,362,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-fashion","category-fashion-industry","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-race","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39838,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837\/revisions\/39838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}