Jil Sander quits again

The German designer Jil Sander has left her label for the second time. Sander founded the label in 1973 and sold it to Prada in 2000. She left shortly after the sale. According to rumours she was not getting along with Prada boss Patrizio Bertelli.

Sander returned to the company in 2003 and enjoyed a triumphant spring/summer 2005 collection, which was hailed as her best collection yet. However, peace had not returned in Prada headquarters in Milan. The Group announced the departure of Sander yesterday, but did not give further details. Sander herself once told Women's Wear Daily that she had miscalculated whom she was getting involved with when she sold her label to Prada. She admitted that she and Bertelli are both entrepreneurs and had learned to respect eachother. Now, however, it appears that respect was not the ingredient the duo needed for a succesful collaboration.