Tomas Maier

Tomas Maier (born 1957) is a German-born designer. From 2001 to 2018, he served as Creative Director at the Italian brand Bottega Veneta.

Early life and training Born in April 1957 in Pforzheim, West Germany, Maier was raised in a family of architects and attended a Waldorf school as a child. From there he headed to Paris, where he trained at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. when the company was acquired by the Gucci Group (which merged with PPR in 2008 and became Kering in 2013).

During his time at Bottega Veneta, Maier presided over an expansion of the brand. He presented his first collection, which consisted solely of accessories, in September 2001, a few months after being hired.

In 2014, Maier and Bottega Veneta partnered with the Japanese publication Casa BRUTUS and launched an initiative to raise awareness of the potential destruction of Modernist buildings in Japan due to economics, politics, and the preparation for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Under Maier's leadership, Bottega Veneta tripled its revenues and exceeded $1 billion for the first time in 2012 before revenues fluctuated in the following years. By 2017, Saint Laurent overtook Bottega Veneta as Kering's second-biggest source of revenue; Kering announced Maier's resignation on 13 June 2018. Since then, five eponymous stores have opened in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour, East Hampton, and New York City. The collection is sold at over 100 stores in more than 30 countries. On 19 November 2013, Kering announced it was investing in Tomas Maier's own label to "infuse it with the capital needed to ramp up expansion, including the addition of more company-owned boutiques". The Tomas Maier brand was shut down in 2018, definitively ending the cooperation between the designer and Kering.