Week in Review | Top 10 Fashion Films, Celebrating Aldo Bensadoun, Nickelson Wooster in Profile

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Week in Review October 15-19

Top 10 Fashion Films of the Season (Fashion 2.0) “Amongst the current crop of fashion films, a number of breakthrough videos employed inexpensive but compelling visual concepts and, in some cases, heavy doses of humour and quirk, as was the case with DIS magazine’s hilarious film for Kenzo Menswear and Alex Turvey’s fabulously eccentric film for Anna Dello Russo’s H&M accessories collaboration, “Fashion Shower.” Sit back

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CEO Talk | Aldo Bensadoun, Founder and Executive Chairman, Aldo Group

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  • Aldo Bensadoun in the atrium of Aldo's Montreal Headquarters | Photo: Courtesy of Aldo Group
  • An Olive Tree sits at the heart of the Aldo campus | Photo: Fred Bouchard
  • ldo's 800,000 square foot distribution centre sorts and ships products for more than 1000 stores in North America | Photo: Stephane Grasso
  • Aldo designs thousands of shoes each year which then become part of an internal marketplace; less than 10% will make it into stores | Photo: Stephane Grasso

MONTRÉAL, Canada — Right at the heart of shoes and accessories giant Aldo’s sprawling, one million square foot global campus-cum-headquarters in suburban Montréal is an olive tree — not a common sight in a city with a climate that swings between frigid winters and hot, humid summers. “I like planting trees. I plant an awful lot of trees,” explains Aldo Bensadoun, who founded his namesake business 40 years ago, this year. “I find

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