Fashion Design & Management Department

BACHELIER Véronique - Leather wear industry

Veronique BACHELIER graduated from IFM (French Institute of Fashion) in Fashion Management. She works for the CTC (Leather technics Centre) a Leather Trends Agency in Paris where she continues to use her professional knowledge for Companies in the Leather sector to keep up with trends and technics of the leather trade. She first gained her own professional experience in charge of coordinating the materials used in the shoe design and production department of Christian Dior. Then later as product manager for women’s shoes with Hermès. She continued to require more experience in the distribution sector with André children’s shoes department and Accessories and Leatherwear manager for La Halle.

Both her experience in the ready to wear distribution sector and her experience in the luxury sector for 2 top brands gives her all the necessary professional know how to pass on to her students in the Mod’Art classes. She deals with the strategies of different brands and analyses the marketing methods giving students comparitive studies to research and present at the end of each programme. She also brings 100s of samples to see, understand and touch in order to illustrate the trends past, present and future of the lucrative market of the leather wear industry.