Gilles Mendel
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4 Feb
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Anyway, he took me to the library.
He showed me the first Gutenberg book printed.
It was insane.
And, you know, I spent the day with this gentleman.
He gave me this whole tour of Harvard and I went back to Paris.
It was great.
You're strictly focused on making furs because that's your...
That was not my thing.
Me, I wanted to show the art history of making fur with fabric and transforming, really making more fashion out of it.
I was not searching just to do a fur coat.
So my store was, you know, there was a lot of cashmere, there was a lot of fabric mix, you know, capes and so on.
So when you came to my store at Elisabeth Arden, you felt like you were in a fashion salon, even though...
primary list was fur, but you know, there was a lot of other things that matched together.
And, you know, so yeah, when I started at Elizabeth Arden, that's how I presented myself.
And, um, yeah.
Yes.
Early eighties, mid eighties.
New York was extraordinary.
I mean, it was fun.
It was incredibly, you know, for me, it was such a,
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