Gilles Mendel

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690 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 4 Feb

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I mean, that mastery was impossible, but I could bring something he didn't have.

So I said to, I used my mom's connections and I introduced the first few months when I decided to work with him.

I said, look, I come in, but let me bring design.

Let me bring a designer, a famous designer to do a collection with you.

And maybe we'll go from there.

So we had the first designer was Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, which is, you know, someone very renowned in France.

And we did a collection.

We did a runway show.

And it went very well.

My father was very happy.

We got suddenly press all over the place.

You know, we were in L'Officiel, Vogue.

It was incredible.

And then I said, what do I do?

And, you know, I couldn't be in the shadow of this huge tree of my father.

It was impossible.

I could have never developed, be myself.

So...

For some reason, I decided out of the blue, without any kind of preparation, I said, I'm going to go to America.

I had a sketchbook of ideas that I wanted to design.

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