Gilles Mendel
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4 Feb
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Originally, when I was little, my dad had a,
A beautiful little shop, but, you know, with an atelier with one sewer and he was making, I mean, those days there was maybe four or five styles, you know, that he would offer to the clients and they were all bespoke pieces.
Basically, every time somebody would come, he would make them for a customer.
And, you know, it's... But from him, I learned... And when I was little, you know, I would go to the workshop and I, you know, smelled, you know, the workshop and all this, the noise of the machine.
And I would look at this man who was...
very handsome with, you know, long hands, a little diamond ring.
And he would be, I would look at him nailing the skins on a board.
And, you know, it would be like looking at the architecture of Versailles, the gardens of Versailles.
You know, all these skins were laid out on the board and he had like old nails and a tool that maybe belonged to his father, femme old tool, you know, and he would do nail by nail, you know, stretching the skin, wetting the skin, stretching the skin on a board.
And at the end, it would be immaculate.
It was like, I mean, as I said, like a plan of Paris, you know, it was very beautiful.
So, I mean, I saw him and I saw him doing that for many years until one day he moved to Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris.
And in, you know, it was a time, my mother was very, very, very visionary.
And she knew that this man was so talented, he needed to be more exposed to the world of fashion and so on.
And Rue Saint-Honoré was the street and is still the street in Paris to be in.
So it was your mother that sort of pushed?
My mother, yes.
She was the one who really put, my dad would have stayed where he was.
He was very happy.
Yeah.
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