Chronicle - La Gaillarde celebrates 10 years! (2 / 9)
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| Buy your tickets now for the evening! |
After hearing good things about the forecastle with Mary Fee , I continue my flight in time with a great man , size and heart, which has seen beautiful!
This week I had the chance to meet Peter Morissette, director of RESO, an early member of the Board of Gaillarde, bringing under its wing the irreducible shop.
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| Pierre Morissette and fashion |
His vision for Gaillarde was the widest participation, now development officer for RESO, Chairman and board member of the mannequin or volunteer Gaillarde.
" I pushed very far to the involvement of a staff development ! " remember he smiled, feeling of having arrived as a hair on the soup in a world of fashion he followed in the '70s.
He saw ...
He saw the crisis fall on the Place St. Henri district after the closure of factories and the Lachine Canal, leaving the unemployed go to other areas more attractive. He saw RESO be created to save the neighborhood development and Gaillarde to establish themselves with a challenge!
"Fashion is a little expression of futility. But I think the fellow was the flagship of a new way to look fashionable. She traced a path that many have followed after. His great strength was to combine several angles. The glamorous side with the "down-to-earth, social integration with environmental preservation and revitalization of the neighborhood, all in a highly competitive industry ! "Explains Peter.
He saw the early days of the FDAC agency, which helped to maintain the relationship of women prisoners with their children. "This is the CEFADER which has implemented the system with trailer in prisons where children could visit their mother. "he adds.
He saw Josée Martel, Senior Manager, change the mission of the guy to give it a more environmental dimension that would help differentiate the store from the others: the value of second hand clothing. He saw it too, "until the coup pregnant! "Looked after the plumbing problems in the new local Gaillarde. # Gaillarde unusual
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| Josée Martel, basically |
He saw the ex-prisoners program redevelop an old warehouse into a machine shop until you realize that the context of zoning (former industrial area), could not authorize a business that tries Gaillarde ... #!
He saw his daughter Clio find alternative employment for the guy to finally take over the development made in Morissette and stay there (life?). # Father proud!
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| Clio, a former employee (eco-designer) of the Gaillarde |
He saw the ecological and ethical fashion to expand the store and become a platform that encourages young independent designers. # Gaillarde love designers!
You will understand, Pierre Morissette saw many beautiful things to Gaillarde! And no doubt it will even more. On behalf of all the bawdy, thank you Peter for your involvement and your encouragement! # Gaillarde likes Peter!
" Today, the future of Gaillarde no longer depends on me or RESO but themselves ! .
The age of maturity has come! # Gaillarde to work!
