Everything You Need to Know About Meryll Rogge, Marni's New Creative Director
Rogge is a Belgian designer who developed a sense of surprise and novelty when working side-by side with Marc Jacobs, and honed her color sense and appreciation for prints when she joined Dries Van Noten as head of womenswear. Since launching her namesake line in 2019, Rogge has become recognized for her off-kilter takes on the slip dress and her fantastic knits, including beaded cardigans for men and women. Celebs fell hard for her sassy boxer bloomers, but customers keep coming back for generously cut khakis with an elastic waist, deconstructed shirting, and fashionable interpretations of sporty separates.
With Rogge's appointment, Marni is once more woman-led. Consuelo Gastiglioni launched the brand in 1994 as a complement to her husband Gianni Castiglioni's fur business. (His sister's nickname was borrowed for the company moniker.) After coming up with ways to take the stoginess out of fur, she needed something to wear under them, and so clothes followed. 'The process of creating a collection is very instinctual…I follow what I like,' Castiglioni told Vogue in 2013. That ability to make things feel personal and easy is a point of connection between the founder and Rogge.
A point of distinction is how Rogge, educated at the Royal Academy of Art, carries forward the Belgian heritage of deconstruction with a light touch. While a lot of thought goes into her patternmaking, the results are not coolly conceptually, but engaging and enticing.
In advance of Rogge's Marni debut, here's everything you need to know about the designer.
Timeline
1984
Born and raised in Flemish Ghent where she dreamed of becoming an illustrator and working for Disney. Caught sketching dresses in her Ancient Greek class, the professor suggested Rogge become a designer.
2002 - 2004
Read law at Université Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur. 'My parents were not so hot on me studying fashion…and so we made a pact where I was going to study the bachelor of law, which luckily at the time was only two years, and then I could do whatever I wanted.'
2004
After graduating, applied to the Royal Academy of Arts. Rogge wasn't admitted and did a foundation year in Antwerp.
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