Marc Chaya: Baccarat Rouge 540 and the Making of a Modern Cultural Icon

Podcast: Compelling with Katy Wellesley Wesley · Katy Wellesley Wesley

Opublikowano: 2026-04-23

What happens when a luxury industry built on marketing starts putting the creator back at the centre? In this episode of Compelling, host Katy Wellesley-Wesley speaks with Marc Chaya, co-founder and CEO of Maison Francis Kurkdjian, about building a modern fragrance house where strategy exists to protect creative freedom, not constrain it. Marc traces his journey from growing up in Beirut during the civil war to becoming Ernst & Young’s youngest ever partner, and explains why beauty, reading, and the arts became both refuge and fuel for an entrepreneurial life. The conversation goes deep on...