More than 20,000 positions are to be filled. The actors try to seduce high school students and create their own schools.
Cutters, tailors, dressmakers, polishers, lapidaries, leatherworkers, embroiderers… While the global demand for luxury products continues to grow, houses are struggling to recruit craftsmen and small hands who will produce their precious items.
According to the Colbert Committee, which brings together a hundred luxury houses, there are currently 20,000 positions to be filled in the crafts. “If we take a broad spectrum ranging from textile mechanics to luxury hotel trades, we are still well beyond”, deplores Bénédicte Epinay, general delegate of the Colbert Committee.
To reverse the dynamic, he is organizing three days of meetings in mid-December at Station F, a start-up campus created by Xavier Niel. Objective: to present the professions and encourage high school students to do their observation internship at Dior, Hermès, Chanel, Boucheron or Cartier. A first “which testifies to our level of concern and the urgency of the situation., according to Bénédicte Epinay. While departures…
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