Joseph Ettedgui (1936-2010), usually known simply as Joseph, was an influential London-based retailer and founder of the Joseph retail empire. After his death, the chair of the British Fashion Council Harold Tillman described him as: “a great designer, retailer and entrepreneur”. Le Figaro fashion editor Godfrey Deeny has described him as: "one of the half dozen greatest fashion retailers in the past half-century".[1][2]
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Early life and career [link]
Born in Casablanca on February 22 1936, Joseph Ettedgui was the son of a French-Moroccan furniture retailer of Jewish ancestry. Joseph’s father considered retailing to be a degrading profession and hoped his son would become a doctor or lawyer.[3][4] Joseph had no such ambitions and moved to London with his brother Maurice in 1960 to train as a hairdresser. Two years later the brothers opened a hairdressing salon (Salon 33) in King's Road, Chelsea – one of the epicentres of Swinging London. In 1964, their brother Franklin joined them.[5][6] In an interview in 1989 with the Jewish Chronicle, Joseph said: “I really wanted to be an architect but I'm terribly impatient. I decided to take a course in hairdressing and I loved it; I loved the way you could transform someone in two hours".[4]
Move into fashion retail [link]
Joseph Ettedgui’s first love was fashion and he began travelling to Paris to see the ready-to-wear collections. This led to a meeting and early business association with Japanese designer Kenzo Takada. He began to sell Kenzo sweaters in Salon 33, and in 1972 the first Joseph clothes store opened underneath the hairdressing premises.[7] Kenzo sweaters in the store’s window were spotted by then Sunday Times fashion editor Michael Roberts and used in a photo shoot – a move credited with simultaneously launching both minimalist European fashion and the Joseph retail name to a wider UK audience.[8]
A high-tech Norman Foster-designed flagship store opened in Sloane Street, Knightsbridge in 1979, after which Joseph Ettedgui’s place as a retail pioneer was cemented. During the 1980s, own-brand knitwear and clothing were introduced. The Joseph brand expanded into restaurants (Joe’s Café) and homeware (Joseph Pour la Maison). Stores opened across London and other major fashion centres, including New York, Paris and Tokyo.[3][9]
Influence and legacy [link]
Throughout his career, Joseph Ettedgui is credited with assisting the careers of emerging fashion designers, including Margaret Howell, Katharine Hamnett, John Galliano and Azzedine Alaïa.[6] He was not just a patron of fashion, but championed architects and interior designers, working with names such as David Chipperfield and Eva Jiricna to create stores that were ahead of their time. British fashion designer John Richmond called him: "the creator of modern retail" and Italian designer and entrepreneur Miuccia Prada commented that Joseph's shops were: "among the most beautiful in the world".[10][11] London-based Saks Fifth Avenue merchandise director Gail Sackloff recalled how her visiting American fashion buyers always wanted to visit Joseph stores in the 1980s because the way he merchandised was special.[12]
Later ventures [link]
After selling the Joseph brand outright to its Japanese licensee in 2005, Joseph Ettedgui turned his attention and fortune to Connolly Luxury Goods, an offshoot of Connolly Leather, and the Belgravia Italian restaurant Il Vaporetto.[13][6]
References [link]
- ↑ https://www.fashionreview.co.uk/joseph-fashion/. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ https://www.fashionwiredaily.com/first_word/news/article.weml?id=3140. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/7483180/Joseph-Ettedgui.html. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/29735/fashion-designer-joseph-dies. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joseph-ettedgui-fashion-designer-and-entrepreneur-who-made-his-name-selling-cleancut-styles-at-affordable-prices-1925444.html Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/23/joseph-ettedgui-obituary?INTCMP=SRCH. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ https://www.standard.co.uk/news/fashion-designer-joseph-ettedgui-paragon-of-good-taste-dies-at-71-6721527.html. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ https://www.style.com/stylefile/2010/03/joseph-ettedgui-rip/. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ https://www.fashionreview.co.uk/joseph-fashion/. Retrieved 2013-02-03
- ↑ https://www.bdonline.co.uk/culture/joseph-ettedgui-1938-2010/3160965.article. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
- ↑ https://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/20/joseph-ettedgui-dies-fashion?INTCMP=SRCH. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- ↑ Robert O'Byrne, Annette Worsley-Taylor Style City: How London Became a Fashion Capital, p117 (Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd, 2009). Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- ↑ https://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/11/agenda_personnel/source/1.htm. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
External links [link]
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Joseph
"Joseph" is a masculine given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yossef, Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic Yôsēp̄. In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelled يوسف or Yūsuf. The name can be translated from Hebrew יהוה להוסיף YHWH Lhosif as signifying "JEHOVAH will increase/add".
In the Old Testament, Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first (Yossef ben-Yaakov in the Jewish Bible). In the New Testament, Joseph is the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus. In the New Testament there is another Joseph as well, Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in which Jesus was buried.
The form "Joseph" is used mostly in English, French and German-speaking countries. The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and Joseph was one of the two names, along with Robert, to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century.
Joseph (son of Talhah)
Joseph, son of Talhah (Arabic: يوسف بن طلحة, Yusuf ibn Talhah) was, according to a Sunni source, the son of the prominent Muslim general Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah and Umm Kulthum bint Abu Bakr. Umm Kulthum was the daughter of the first Sunni Caliph, Abu Bakr.
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Joseph (fashion brand)
Joseph is a fashion brand and retail chain that was established in London by Moroccan entrepreneur Joseph Ettedgui and his family in 1972.
History of the brand
The Joseph brand grew from a small shop attached to a hairdressing salon in King's Road, Chelsea, owned by Casablanca-born Joseph Ettedgui and his brothers Maurice and Franklin, to more than 20 London stores, with eight additional outlets in New York and Paris plus stores in Leeds and Manchester.
Joseph Ettedgui’s love of fashion meant the brothers began displaying designer clothes in their hair salon in the 1960s, including the work of pioneering Japanese designer Kenzo Takada. The success of this early collaboration led to a move into fashion retailing, with the first store opening below the Chelsea hair salon in the early 1970s and the first large-scale retail outlet opening on Sloane Street in 1979.
Designer collaborations
Joseph stores championed the work of many up-and-coming designers, including Margaret Howell, Katharine Hamnett, John Galliano and Azzedine Alaïa. Own brand clothing began with distinctive knitwear (Joseph Tricot) and went on to include women’s clothing, perfume, homewares (Joseph Pour La Maison), and Joe's restaurants. Joseph has been the recipient of a number of British Fashion Awards, including Knitwear Designer of the Year four times between 1990 and 1994 and a British Fashion Award in 2000 presented by Cherie Blair.
