People Behind The Brand - Francoise Montenay At Chanel

My day was like a race against time when they knew that becoming president of Chanel SA was, therefore, the entire group of fashion, beauty and the Maitres de Métiers and. She also was chairman of the Comité Colbert, an association of 70 major French luxury brands and COLIPA. The combined Colipa 2000 (!) In Brussels cosmetic brands under one roof. She also found time - now one of its main tasks - to engage in a trust, which helps seriously ill women in hospitals to be more courageous in which it takes beauty treatments and cosmetic treatments for women's empowerment and their self-esteem.

Of course, all dressed in Chanel, Françoise Montenay looks unpretentious and could also be chairman of the French hospitality industry. She took the time last year even answer me some questions.
Her career is unusual for a woman in France, and she worked for 25 years at Chanel. Even at the premiere of Charles's first photo collection in 1983, it is full of pride among Zuschauern.Ihre career began at Mobil Oil in France, then took station at Procter and Gamble and then moved through a chance in the louis vuitton m32482 gray industry for L'Oreal .
She remarked that it was her more with people and work, especially for men. She was also about the products and the love of it, what was difficult before. At Chanel, they appealed to the house played the leading role in the world of perfume and cosmetics sector.

Performed by inducing the spell of its creator Coco Chanel, this was planned since 1932, says "Paris Luxury and bases in all corners of the world to conquer it." This field Montenay drove forward with great vigor, especially in Russia, China and India flower totally new markets.

One of the first, she realized that India is the main market of the future. I particularly liked the fact that she is upset when people say that luxury products are just expensive. Luxury is not dependent on the price, but the comfort, quality and style. Unkomfortble clothes for them is not a luxury.

She gives an example: At Chanel is the real luxury in the non-visible. Thus, the elastic linings of summer jackets often much more expensive than the outer materials and the processing of labor-intensive and sophisticated. "The true luxury lies in what you see is not" already knew her corporate patron. She was around in the last three decades, with many, many fittings to be understood. Your best compliment of Karl: He says she has a good eye for everything.

They learned it from him and she raves about how brilliant and amusing to work with him, once he has created in one afternoon only 37 variants of a jacket, something like that create the least. Her whole life was dedicated to the company and her family, she was always available for Karl and Chanel, except when they indulged their passion, classical concerts.

Now she takes care of trauma and cancer patients, plugged into it since 1991 as compensation for an existing industry as superficial a lot of time there, making it hard and with great enthusiasm, like everything in life.