Monday, October 23, 2023

EVOLUTION


A COUTURIER NOW SELLS ONLY TO A BRAND 

What individual clients used to obtain for 300 euros now goes for more than 700,* and the collection is far more limited.

*The brand does not even have to finance a store, since sales are made through the web.

Until 2020

Philippe Vidalenc,
 a sculptor trained at the School of Fine Arts
whose subtle colors came from dying collections himself:




He still works in the workshop under the former boutique,
but now...



 No retail sorry. mail@vidalenc.com"



At the end of the street

An outsized ad for a brand looms over the riverbank.

Brands and mass-produced mediocrity
 have largely destroyed the creativity of central Paris.
Well-established businesses remain,
but are becoming rarer and are seldom replaced.

Here are some solutions.


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