Gilles Mendel

Gilles Mendel began his career by apprenticing under his father, Jacques, at the eponymous J. Mendel fur salon in Paris. In 1981, he came to the helm as designer and CEO opening his first J. Mendel Boutique at Elizabeth Arden’s Fifth Avenue Salon. Once Established in New York, Mendel quickly became a favorite among the chic set in Manhattan. He is a fiftth-generation French atelier. In 2011 Mendel won the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award.