SING A SONG: Fun fact: Pascal Morand, executive president of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, is a closet musician \u2014 has been for decades.<\/p>\n
The keyboard player in a New Wave band called King Lear back in the \u201980s, he\u2019s kept up his musical sideline, and on Tuesday night took to the stage at New Morning, a Paris nightclub renowned for jazz and blues.<\/p>\n
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With his baritone voice and the bossa nova stylings of his band, it wasn\u2019t long before he had the audience singing back \u201cOh la la,\u201d and howling with delight.<\/p>\n
The concert took place between men\u2019s fashion week in the French capital and Paris<\/a> Couture Week, letting Morand and executives from LVMH, Rick Owens, Ami, 3.Paradis, KCD Paris and Palais Galliera blow off some steam.<\/p>\n Morand describes his genre of music as \u201ccontemporary French songs,\u201d and on Tuesday he flitted between the solo mic and the keyboard as a string quartet shared the stage with a harpist, bass guitar player and other musicians.<\/p>\n The brainy executive, who holds a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Rouen, assumed the helm of French fashion\u2019s governing body in 2015.<\/p>\n Before that, he was the former director general of the Institut Fran\u00e7ais de la Mode and former dean of business school ESCP Europe, and was previously deputy director general of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Paris region.<\/p>\n He never fully gave up performing, doing a few concerts and festivals around the Millennium and 2011, but only recently returned to songwriting in earnest, composing on the piano, he told WWD. In tandem with Tuesday\u2019s concert, and with the support \u201cof a community of friends,\u201d he released a five-track EP.<\/p>\n Best of WWD<\/p>\n Sign up for WWD’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SING A SONG: Fun fact: Pascal Morand, executive president of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de la Haute Couture et de…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30151,12759,30152,30150,19637,30,28552,6478],"class_list":["post-44701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-baritone-voice","tag-haute-couture","tag-keyboard-player","tag-oh-la-la","tag-palais-galliera","tag-paris","tag-pascal-morand","tag-wwd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}