Gilles Mendel

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

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Gilles Mendel | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 4 Feb 2026 podcast

You know, I had some ideas, but I was not really totally prepared.

So I'm going to go to America and maybe I'm opening a store on Madison Avenue.

Why not?

You know, so I went on a tourist visa to New York and

And I walked the streets of Madison up and down.

It was the early 80s.

Everybody at that time already... All the stores, all the fur stores disappeared at this point.

In the early 80s in New York City, you already had a lot of anti-fur movements.

Posters about whether to be naked and wearing fur and all these things.

So it was not too good.

But anyway, I was... I saw...

I realized very quickly that a store on Madison was not going to happen because you had to have three, four hundred thousand dollars in those days, you know, to spend.

It was already like kind of a million dollars that I didn't have.

Neither my parents were going to invest in this kid coming to New York after just a few months having worked with my dad.

And, you know, I went on and on and on and, you know, I realized and I said, okay, I'm going to go to Bergdorf Goodman, you know, the store.

I happened to be connected because some public relation in Paris that I knew said, why don't you go and see Don Mello, who at the time was running Bergdorf Goodman.

I showed my sketch and she very nicely, politely said to me, you know, thank you, but...

You know, maybe go to the second floor.

There is a third apartment.

It's Fendi.

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