PARIS — There was zero ivory tower attitude at the second edition of the IME Village, a yearly vocational fair sponsored by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s Institut des Métiers d’Excellence, or institute for métiers of excellence, held at Espace 93 in the notorious Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
Founded in 2014, the program is geared at opening up opportunities for kids from the area to discover the group’s métiers across a range of domains and learn about work/study apprenticeships done in partnership with six top French schools in jewelry, dressmaking, winemaking, leather goods, client advisory and retail design. They include the École de la Bijouterie-Joaillerie de Paris for jewelry, the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne for fashion and Les Compagnons du Devoir for leather goods.
“We want to develop their employability, and we have needs in our ateliers, in our houses. We are looking for talent to join us, and we need to train them. It’s similar to [LVMH’S] Journées Particulières, where we open our ateliers to the public, only here the aim is to fill the ateliers with the talent potential we are looking for,” said Florence Rambaud, the program’s director.
“We consider that talent has no age and no origin, and we want to
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