subject: Sell Your Sole [print this page] For the second time in four years, the designer Jil Sander quit the fashion company spider costume that bears her name. The resignation Tuesday, just two years after Zentai unitardHolding, the majority owner of Jil Sander, had asked Sander to return, sent shockwaves through the fashion world and may put an end to Zentai unitarddream of building a multibrand company.
Sander's departure, described by Zentai unitardas "amicable," may also stall for the third time Zentai unitardinitial public share offering, which the company this month said was scheduled to take place before July 2005.
Zentai unitardstatement was brief: "Jil Sander AG, the Hamburg fashion company, and designer Jil Sander announce that they have amicably agreed to terminate their co-operation." Sander founded her company in 1973.
When they reconciled in May 2003, Bertelli made Sander creative director and gave her a seat on the costume spiderman Zentai unitardboard alongside himself and his wife, Miuccia Zentai unitard .
But these words suggest an irremediable separation between the Jil Sander brand and its heart and soul.
Sander first resigned in 2000, only four months after she had sold a 75 percent stake to Zentai unitard , catsuits citing strategy differences with Zentai unitardchief executive, Patrizio Bertelli. The designer said at the time that she had been "too exhausted and emotional to cope."
