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Zélie de Crécy

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France
French parliamentary enquiry report sets out recommendations for safeguarding models

A parliamentary enquiry into sexual abuse and harassment in the culture sector has made waves in the French film industry. Its criticisms of the fashion sector have been less publicised but could lead to a change in legislation.

Subscribers only Entourage 17.04.2025

France
Reservoir Watch changes hands

Reservoir Watch, the Parisian watchmaker placed in receivership in January, was hoping to find some last-minute financing to avoid a change in ownership. Its efforts were unsuccessful.

Subscribers only Houses 17.04.2025

Front Row | France
Olivia Grégoire, the French luxury sector's favourite member of parliament

France's former minister for small business, now a humble MP, has forged valuable links with the luxury and fashion industry and serves as its spokesperson in the National Assembly. Olivia Grégoire is increasingly vociferous on issues such as fast fashion and lab-grown diamonds.

Subscribers only Entourage 10.04.2025

French MP Olivia Grégoire is increasingly vocal on issues such as fast fashion and lab-grown diamonds.

France
Antoine Arnault and foodie financier Butler compete to buy art deco brasserie Le Basilic

Placed in compulsory liquidation, the Paris brasserie, complete with its original 1930s décor, is attracting a lot of interest. Antoine Arnault and his associates are going head-to-head with Walter Butler, already a shareholder in L'Ambroisie, Pierre Hermé and the Moma Group, in the race to acquire it.

Subscribers only Entourage 04.04.2025

France
French labour inspectorate to monitor fashion week more closely

Model agencies and unions have alerted the Direction Générale du Travail to the prevalence of illegal work on photo shoots and catwalk shows.

Subscribers only Entourage 03.04.2025

France, Lebanon
Korloff's long-time Lebanese supplier chases unpaid debts

The Parisian jeweller, controlled by the Mirabaud Patrimoine Vivant fund, is sinking deeper into debt with a range of suppliers. One of its jewellery manufacturers in Lebanon is now seeking more than €1m through the French courts.

Subscribers only Houses 03.04.2025

France
Far right takes pride of place in French National Assembly's working group on luxury goods

The National Assembly has just greenlit an amendment lowering the cash payment threshold for non-French residents to €1,000, depriving luxury groups of a major source of revenue.

Subscribers only Entourage 03.04.2025

France, Japan
Tasaki pearls to get showcase on Rue de la Paix

The Japanese jewellery maker, which was bought by Asian equity funds last December and is in the select circle of jewellers supplied by De Beers, is preparing to open its first own-brand boutique in Paris.

Subscribers only Houses 27.03.2025

France
Models miss out on flexible worker regime

After a year of negotiations, unions and model agencies have finalised the industry's new collective bargaining agreement. But despite their best efforts, this excludes the advantageous employment status that models had been seeking.

Subscribers only Entourage 27.03.2025

France
French culture minister honours slew of luxury professionals

Rachida Dati has been on something of a luxury gong binge since taking office, handing out state honours with great pomp and circumstance to Demna Gvasalia, Simon Porte Jacquemus, Naomi Campbell, Julia Roberts and a host of others in the sector.

Subscribers only Entourage 20.03.2025

France
Is this the last European Artistic Crafts Days?

For the first time since its creation in 2002, the annual Journées Européennes des Métiers d'Art event in Paris that showcases excellence in craftsmanship has been deprived of funding from the French state. This is a blow for manufacturers and workshops providing services to the luxury goods industry.

Subscribers only Entourage 20.03.2025

France
Foreign model agencies regularly flout French labour regulations

Russian, US and Japanese agencies are well used to circumventing strict French regulations in order to get their models on the catwalks of Paris. This situation has alarmed French agencies, and they have turned to the country's labour authorities for help.

Subscribers only Entourage 13.03.2025

France, Sweden
Acne Studios settles French tax bill

After an unsuccessful appeal, the French branch of Acne Studios has finally cleared its tax bill.

Subscribers only Houses 13.03.2025

Europe, United States
Agencies troubled by AI-generated models

Agencies are struggling to find solutions to deal with the influx of models generated by artificial intelligence, particularly on social media.

Subscribers only Entourage 06.03.2025

France
French parliamentary commission to look into models' debts to agencies

A French parliamentary commission of inquiry into violence in the film and fashion industries has expressed concern about deductions taken from models' pay by their agencies. Several agencies are due to be summoned to a new hearing this month.

Subscribers only Entourage 06.03.2025

France
Financier Thierry Gloaguen buys fourth modelling agency

Fever Management, which has been in receivership for over a year, has just been bought by a former member of Kering's finance team, Thierry Gloaguen. Over the past four years he has been consolidating modelling agencies into a single group.

Subscribers only Entourage 27.02.2025

Front Row | France
Samer Al Rayes, the dentist who provides lodgings for Paris Fashion Week models

He has been well known for years as the preferred dentist of the top models who gather in Paris six times a year for fashion week. He has made use of his contacts, however, to build up a substantial collection of properties, where the models can be accommodated when they are not on the catwalks.

Subscribers only Entourage 27.02.2025

Samer Al Rayes, 34, has a property portfolio of 40 or so flats that he rents to modelling agencies.

France, Switzerland
Van Cleef & Arpels secures production chain by buying out ateliers

The Richemont group's jewellery brand is pursuing a vertical integration strategy in France, in addition to developing new production sites. Several of its subcontractors came under its wing last year.

Subscribers only Houses 20.02.2025

France
Four buyers in race to take over Reservoir Watch

The French brand, which is based on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris and produces its models in Switzerland, has been at a standstill late last year. The founder of the Nous concept store on Rue Cambon is among the four potential buyers.

Subscribers only Houses 20.02.2025

France, Japan
Japanese luxury concessionaire Yagi Tsusho's legal battle with Chambord château

Yagi Tsusho, which holds the Japanese rights to Moncler and Kenzo, also operates its own leather goods brand named Chambord Sellier. The eponymous French château did not authorise the use of the name and has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to recover it.

Subscribers only Entourage 13.02.2025

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Zélie de Crécy

France
French parliamentary enquiry report sets out recommendations for safeguarding models

France
Reservoir Watch changes hands

Front Row | France
Olivia Grégoire, the French luxury sector's favourite member of parliament

France
Antoine Arnault and foodie financier Butler compete to buy art deco brasserie Le Basilic

France
French labour inspectorate to monitor fashion week more closely

France, Lebanon
Korloff's long-time Lebanese supplier chases unpaid debts

France
Far right takes pride of place in French National Assembly's working group on luxury goods

France, Japan
Tasaki pearls to get showcase on Rue de la Paix

France
Models miss out on flexible worker regime

France
French culture minister honours slew of luxury professionals

France
Is this the last European Artistic Crafts Days?

France
Foreign model agencies regularly flout French labour regulations

France, Sweden
Acne Studios settles French tax bill

Europe, United States
Agencies troubled by AI-generated models

France
French parliamentary commission to look into models' debts to agencies

France
Financier Thierry Gloaguen buys fourth modelling agency

Front Row | France
Samer Al Rayes, the dentist who provides lodgings for Paris Fashion Week models

France, Switzerland
Van Cleef & Arpels secures production chain by buying out ateliers

France
Four buyers in race to take over Reservoir Watch

France, Japan
Japanese luxury concessionaire Yagi Tsusho's legal battle with Chambord château

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The geopolitics of fake goods

Brands brave the Wild West of the second-hand market

From the Martinez to Claridge's, hostilities rage between five-star hotel mogul Paddy McKillen and Qatar

Zélie de Crécy

France French parliamentary enquiry report sets out recommendations for safeguarding models

France Reservoir Watch changes hands

Front Row | France Olivia Grégoire, the French luxury sector's favourite member of parliament

France Antoine Arnault and foodie financier Butler compete to buy art deco brasserie Le Basilic

France French labour inspectorate to monitor fashion week more closely

France, Lebanon Korloff's long-time Lebanese supplier chases unpaid debts

France Far right takes pride of place in French National Assembly's working group on luxury goods

France, Japan Tasaki pearls to get showcase on Rue de la Paix

France Models miss out on flexible worker regime

France French culture minister honours slew of luxury professionals

France Is this the last European Artistic Crafts Days?

France Foreign model agencies regularly flout French labour regulations

France, Sweden Acne Studios settles French tax bill

Europe, United States Agencies troubled by AI-generated models

France French parliamentary commission to look into models' debts to agencies

France Financier Thierry Gloaguen buys fourth modelling agency

Front Row | France Samer Al Rayes, the dentist who provides lodgings for Paris Fashion Week models

France, Switzerland Van Cleef & Arpels secures production chain by buying out ateliers

France Four buyers in race to take over Reservoir Watch

France, Japan Japanese luxury concessionaire Yagi Tsusho's legal battle with Chambord château

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Glitz on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

France
French parliamentary enquiry report sets out recommendations for safeguarding models

France
Reservoir Watch changes hands

Front Row | France
Olivia Grégoire, the French luxury sector's favourite member of parliament

France
Antoine Arnault and foodie financier Butler compete to buy art deco brasserie Le Basilic

France
French labour inspectorate to monitor fashion week more closely

France, Lebanon
Korloff's long-time Lebanese supplier chases unpaid debts

France
Far right takes pride of place in French National Assembly's working group on luxury goods

France, Japan
Tasaki pearls to get showcase on Rue de la Paix

France
Models miss out on flexible worker regime

France
French culture minister honours slew of luxury professionals

France
Is this the last European Artistic Crafts Days?

France
Foreign model agencies regularly flout French labour regulations

France, Sweden
Acne Studios settles French tax bill

Europe, United States
Agencies troubled by AI-generated models

France
French parliamentary commission to look into models' debts to agencies

France
Financier Thierry Gloaguen buys fourth modelling agency

Front Row | France
Samer Al Rayes, the dentist who provides lodgings for Paris Fashion Week models

France, Switzerland
Van Cleef & Arpels secures production chain by buying out ateliers

France
Four buyers in race to take over Reservoir Watch

France, Japan
Japanese luxury concessionaire Yagi Tsusho's legal battle with Chambord château