Balmain Beauty Hires Hans Dorsinville as SVP Global Creative

Hans Dorsinville has been named SVP, global creative, Balmain Beauty. He will be based in New York and report directly to Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, which announced an agreement in September 2022 to collaboratively develop, produce, and distribute a line beauty products with The Estée Lauder Companies.

In this position, Dorsinville will work closely with the Balmain and Balmain Beauty teams, including Estée Lauder Companies’ executives Guillaume Jesel (president, global brands, Tom Ford Beauty, Balmain Beaity and luxury business development) and Nathalie Berger Duquene, (SVP, global GM, Balmain Beauty). 

Dorsinville will be responsible for overseeing the full creative spectrum for beauty including image, concepts, strategy and alignment of brand voice with the fashion house.

Dorsinville brings more than 25 years of creative experience to brand, having served in leadership roles across leading fashion, branding and advertising agencies, and while in-house at Donna Karan. Most recently, Dorsinville held the role of chief creative officer at Gotham where he led the strategic creative work across several large-scale fashion and beauty brands. Prior to Gotham, he was chief creative officer at Select World, following more than ten years at Laird + Partners, where he was a founding partner. As EVP, senior group creative director at Laird + Partners, he led brand concepting, art direction for digital, print packaging design, merchandising and fashion shows for clients across luxury fragrance, high jewelry and fashion.

Dorsinville’s rise in fashion and beauty creative leadership began when he joined Donna Karan’s in-house creative agency in the early 1990s as Junior Designer. Assuming roles of increasing responsibility, Hans stepped into the position of EVP, developing campaigns for the Collection and the DKNY bridge line. At Donna Karan he worked across all fashion and licensees, including fragrance and skincare.

A graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris, Dorsinville is known for championing diversity, inclusion and empowerment across his work and in the fashion and beauty industries. In 2018, he founded the Creative Coalition for Diversity in an effort to expand opportunities for a more diverse and inclusive group of creatives of color.