Gilles Mendel
speaker
690 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4 Feb
Gilles Mendel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Folk world.
You know, I don't think up to that time there was you talking so much.
I mean, fashion, I think I have been more the one who brought more even this idea of fashion to the world.
I mean, that embraced more the fashion element.
My dad looked at himself like, you know.
A craftsman who was making unbelievable things.
He didn't want, he didn't need to do quantities.
He didn't want to do anything that was beyond, you know, the artistry of his work.
And he was very proud of it.
And there was something, my mom was the one pushing and saying, we should try to do more, to be more involved.
You know, you're so talented.
You have so much to offer.
Why don't you give that?
Why don't you show that to more people?
I see.
Yeah.
And I was the instrument of that, basically.
You know, when I, you know, when I decided to move into my family's world, in the, you know, in the work world, I basically, I'm the one who instigated, you know, this connection with designers.
Because my mother was basically this little bundle of beauty who was always constantly working.
You know, I would be one day in Paris and she would arrive in a little mini Cooper with, uh, you know, a famous designer next to her, like as in a liar, you know, and I had, she, she had many very famous designers around her that loved her.
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