Gilles Mendel
speaker
690 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4 Feb
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I loved it.
You know, it was a very extraordinary experience for me because, you know, I like to do everything.
So for me, at J. Mandel, it was, you know, from the windows, I love doing windows.
So, you know,
doing the windows on Madison Avenue was really my joy.
For a while in Paris, we had a store and I would do the windows as well.
And, you know, I got the best compliment because I always remember Albaz.
Albaz was a designer of Lanvin.
And he always made the most fabulous windows for Boursat Honoré in Paris.
And one day I'm walking and this man walked and we met, you know, he knew me, I knew him.
And he came to me and said, Gilles, I love your windows.
And it's like from a master saying that to me, you know, made me really happy because I really, I enjoy this experience.
I enjoy the window making.
I enjoy when you're in the store, you know, meeting the customers, listening to their, you know, there's something about it.
So when I did this for a long time and I really enjoyed it and it was fun, but it became also more and more becoming, you know, something new.
Less personal as you grow, you know, you make more products, you can't control all the product.
And I like to control what I do.
I like to, I like to put, you know, I have this imprint in me of this artisanal of this love of the product, respect of the product, which is really what I learned from my father and my grandfather.
And I wanted to go back to that.
And I think, you know, there was a point after 2016 and then when COVID came in, you know, I mean, there was also the economic crisis.
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