

That store, which has 3,000 square feet of selling space, is expected to open in April. With four stores in New York City and 25 throughout the U.S., Zadig & Voltaire is getting ready to open a fifth unit at 453 Broome Street in Manhattan. In the U.S., the brand is distributed to about 500 doors, including Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus, as well as Shopbop. La Rinascente in Italy Sogo in Hong Kong Lane Crawford in Hong Kong and China Globus in Switzerland, and KaDeWe in Germany. The brand sells such retailers as Galeries Lafayette and Printemps in France El Corte Ingles in Spain and Portugal Harrods and Harvey Nichols in the U.K. Zadig & Voltaire, which generates 350 million euros, or $364.5 million at the current exchange, in sales, has 318 stores worldwide in cities ranging from Paris and Los Angeles to Hong Kong and Melbourne, along with a robust wholesale business. It will also include eight “see-now-buy-now” pieces. The company’s fall show will feature a mix of new models and those who have previously worked with the house, such as Erin Wasson (although she’s not 100 percent confirmed). “It’s a wink to my muse Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy,” she said. Bönström said the fall collection shows how the Parisian woman is reborn into a New Yorker. “New York is my second home,” said Thierry Gillier, founder and chief executive officer of Zadig & Voltaire, in an interview with his partner, Cécilia Bönström, artistic director, at The Mark Hotel here.
