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Prosper and Martine Assouline’s business began with a passion project: A book dedicated to their love for La Colombe d’Or, a boutique hotel in the South of France; Prosper produced the images and Martine was responsible for the text. But since publishing that first title 30 years ago, Assouline Publishing has gone on to capture the history and visual memory of places like Ibiza and Jaipur, industry icons such as Estée Lauder and Valentino Garavani, as well as fashion houses like Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton.
“The idea was to make a book about the spirit of a place … to mix the past, the present, the people, and all the DNA,” says Martine.
“I always say to my team in the art department that when a book is finished, we need to start it … You think it’s finished but it’s just beginning,” says Prosper.
This week on The BoF Podcast, founder and editor-in-chief Imran Amed sits down with the Assoulines to learn how this fixture of fashion publishing was born and how they intend to maintain that original creative spark while growing it into a global lifestyle business.
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