Nathalie Colin

Colin was born on 17 April 1966, in the town of Cornimont, France (Vosges, 88).

She graduated from the Institute de Commerce de Nancy.^[2] She later worked for Perry Ellis in the merchandising department, with Marc Jacobs as the current director.^[3]

In 1990 in Paris, she started to work as a marketing director^[4] for Promotion, a trend-forecasting agency. In 1998, Colin founded her own company, Cultural Sushi, a design agency.^[5] In 1999/2000, she relocated to Beijing, China to start an apparel brand with Olivier Lapidus for the Chinese company Yimian Group.^{[citation needed]}