Colette and the Future of Retail (Sarah Andelman and Rachel Shechtman) | BoF VOICES
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The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the B.OF podcast. |
| 0:06.9 | Voices is the most stimulating gathering of fashion industry leaders on the planet. |
| 0:11.9 | What makes voices different is that we mix our industry with fascinating people from other sectors. |
| 0:17.0 | From the worlds of economics, activism, health and wellness, medicine, film, philanthropy, |
| 0:23.1 | technology, media, and so many more, fashion doesn't live in a bubble and nor should it. |
| 0:28.6 | This is one of the sessions from our 2017 gathering. Earlier this year, the news broke that |
| 0:33.9 | Colette, the famous Parisian concept store, would be shutting down. |
| 0:39.3 | In fact, it was one of the most red stories on the business of fashion in 2017. |
| 0:44.1 | So it was really important that we could hear from the horse's mouth, from Sarah Andleman, |
| 0:49.3 | the creative director of Colette, as to why she had made this decision to close Colette down. The industry reacted so |
| 0:57.2 | emotionally when the news broke that we felt it was important to talk to Sarah herself. So here's Rachel |
| 1:03.4 | Sheckman, CEO and founder of Story in conversation with Sarah Andleman, creative director of Collette, |
| 1:13.4 | on Collette and the Future of Retail. |
| 1:21.1 | Just a quick note, this conversation was recorded live in front of an audience, so please excuse any audio issues. |
| 1:29.5 | I've had the pleasure of knowing Sarah for a few years, but recently spent some time together having lunch and walking around the shop. |
| 1:31.6 | And I think one of the things that amazed me, surprised me, was walking through the store |
| 1:37.0 | with Sarah, which was the first time I had the pleasure of doing that with you. |
| 1:40.3 | She was walking around and as we were going through things, she would like move the mannequin. She'd whispered in someone's ear saying, can you restock that shelf? |
| 1:48.0 | She was making sure something over there was being dusted. |
| 1:51.0 | And you would have thought they had just opened the store with every little bit of attention to detail, |
| 1:57.0 | which explains a lot. But why don't you take us back to 20 years ago in a very different |
| 2:02.4 | retail climate to how it all began and you and your mom? |
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