Gilles Mendel
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690 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4 Feb
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You know, even though, and I have to say it's a record because if you think of it, I've been, I was, I think I stayed about 10 years at Elizabeth Arden.
And there was really difficult years where fur was really, really hard when, you know, nobody wanted to be associated with this idea of fur.
I was in a cosmetic company who had so much more to lose than me.
And they kept me all along because I was successful.
I was really doing well for them.
So it shows you that there was a...
a good... There was a very good partnership.
Yeah, it was.
Yeah.
I mean, I was.
The story is that when I opened Madison Avenue, my first boutique, finally, you know, even though I have to say, you know, having windows on Fifth Avenue at Elizabeth Island was quite something, you know.
When I opened my first boutique, yes, everybody said, you're crazy.
They're going to break your windows.
You're not going to last more than a week.
So yeah, the first thing I did, there was a little coffee shop next to my store called Viande, still there, little tiny place.
I took a studio, a 200 square feet little studio above, put two machines together.
And I started to make little dresses.
So I said at nighttime, instead of leaving the furs, which are going to break the windows, I'll put a coat and a dress to match, a little matching thing and see what happens.
And then the next day, being in the 60s on Madison Avenue, around there, there were ladies passing by and seeing my dresses and started to come in.
So I said, wow, this is really amazing.
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