User:Loicbizel/About you

Loic Bizel was born on 24/01/1972 in the Rhone region of France. From 13 years, he started to teach tennis in his home village as well as organizing parties as DJ. After his baccalaureate, he moved to the city of Lyons to study International Trade at IDRAC business school. During his studies, at 20 years old, he created his first company named PACCS, Prospection Action Commerciale Conseil Strategy. The concept was to develop small companies by outsourcing sales, marketing and export tasks to him. In 1995, he was called by the compulsory French military service and when he returns, he decided that his future was outside of France.

In December 1995, Loic found a job as Export Manager for a company representing French brands of shoes in Asia such as Paraboot, Palladium, Elizabeth Stuart,...

He arrived in Asia for the first time in January 1996 and settled down in Tokyo to oversee Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

After 5 years developing successfully these brands in Japan through the select shops like United Arrows or Beams, famous department store like Isetan, and collaboration with designers like Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garçons, he decided to create a boutique fashion consulting agency.

In April 2001, at the beginning of internet, he launched Lebiz Consulting, specialized in Japanese Fashion Trends, Distribution and Consumers. At the same time, he launched 2 unique and innovative concepts, www.fashioninjapan.com, Streets and Stores Fashion Live Trends, and www.TokyoFashionTour.com, Guided and Commented visit of Tokyo best shopping districts.

Since then, Loic has been consulting for most of the main brands and retailers of the world (Galeries Lafayette, H&M, Primark, Nordstrom, Timberland, Lacoste, Eastpak, Zara, Sonia Rykiel, Sandro, Myers, Next, LVMH, Richemont,…).

Nicknamed the Japanese Fashion Scene “trenspotter” and “cool hunter” by the media, Loic appeared in several TV program from CNN to Arte, TV5 Monde, Voyage, France 2,… and in many economic, lifestyle and fashion magazines all over the world.

In 2010, he was asked to take over the recently launched flash sales website, www.glamour-sales.com. After 6 months assisting the company to source new brands, he was appointed as General Manager of the site leading it to the No 1 Flash Sales site in Japan after 5 years.

www.fashioninjapan.com www.tokyofashiontour.com www.lebiz-consulting.com www.glamour-sales.com

Follow Tokyo Fashion Trends on : twitter.com/FashionJapan | facebook.com/group "FashionJapan" | Pinterest.com/fashionjapan/ | linkedin.com : "Japanese Fashion Trends" instagram.com/japanfashion | Instagram Appli "@japanfashion" | sumally.com/loic_bizel | thefancy.com/FashioninJapan

Download some articles on PDF : Elle Canada, Herald Tribune, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal Asia, Associated Press, AFP, Les Echos, CB News, Strategies, Beaux Arts, SBS Radio, Washington Times (2-3-4), Senken Shimbun, Mood, .CFCE (1-2), The Times, Sun Herald, Yahoo News, The Sun, Hollywood Reporter, The Japan Times,The Daily Yomiuri, Challenges, GQ, American Way, Le Progres, Millenium, Les Echos (1-2-3), Chieftain, Business 2.0,Influencia, Femme en Ville, Washington Flyer (1-2-3-4-5), Houston Chronicle, Southbend Tribune, Baltimore Post,Charleston Net, Taipei Times, The Japan Times, Asahi Shimbun, Arab Times, Baltimore Sun (1-2-3), World Herald,Wirtschaftwoche, Aujourd'hui le Japon, Info Actualite, La Presse Affaires, ...

View the TV interviews (Telejournal Canada, CNN, Voyages, Gris TV, CBC, France 2 - 55min,...).