Fashion show organizer La Mode en Images expands to New York and Dubai
Cassidy STEPHENS
Already established in Shanghai and Beijing, the French specialist in the organization of fashion shows, brand exhibitions and other major events, La Mode en Images, is launching new subsidiaries. The Mazarine
Starting in October, an American subsidiary of the company will take up residence in the New York offices of Mazarine USA. This new entity will be headed by the managing director of Mazarine US, Carine Bauvey, and will consist of 40 specialists in events, content and innovation.
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La Mode en Images will also set up an Emirati subsidiary in Dubai by the end of the year. Its objective will be to accompany all of the agency’s client brands in the Middle Eastern market with “exponential growth for the luxury sector”.
These two announcements come after the company brought together its 70 or so Parisian employees, previously spread across several offices in the Marais district, in a newly renovated mansion at 5 rue du Cirque in Paris’s eighth arrondissement. The team was also strengthened in April with a new managing director, Emmanuel Heimann, who is also executive vice president of the Mazarine Group.
“The new offices of La Mode en Images, close to those of the Mazarine Group located at L’Étoile, will accelerate synergies with the digital teams and enable the development of virtual events, web3, metaverse and NFT,” says the company, which, with 20 years of experience, previously had some 90 employees between its teams in Paris, Shanghai and Beijing.