Designing an office that feels like a home: vintage mid-century furniture, custom lighting and curtains made from Covid mask fabric
- Vestiaire Collective’s new headquarters in Paris has been designed with home comforts in mind, with dedicated areas in which to relax, pray or breastfeed
- The e-commerce platform’s VIP meeting room could easily pass for an actual living room, with its plants, curated bric-a-brac and rich mid-century furnishings
It took a year to find the right property to house Vestiaire Collective’s new headquarters in Paris.
Since starting the luxury fashion resale platform from a flat in the French capital in 2009, co-founders Fanny Moizant and Sophie Hersan have overseen global expansion for their B Corp-accredited company, with offices in London, Berlin, Hong Kong, New York and, most recently, Korea.
The Paris office, unveiled in May last year, was a culmination of their ideas regarding the company’s high-end sustainability ethos and the post-Covid need for a homelike work space.
In 2013, Moizant, who is the company’s president, moved with her family from Paris to London to start operations there. Four years later, she did the same for the Hong Kong launch, opting first for a flat in Repulse Bay before moving to a house in Stanley.
Last year, she moved back to Europe, splitting her time between London and Paris. “I’ve relocated so much, I think I’ve gained a little bit of knowledge in how to find and arrange a home to my own taste,” says Moizant.
Finding the 4,500 square metres (48,440 sq ft) they needed, in a high quality building with good transport links, presented a major challenge, which was finally met by taking three of six levels in a 19th century Haussmann pile.
