MEET NATHALIE SEARS –
PRESIDENT LOVE CHILD TO YOU
My family of Love Children is the best! Take Nathalie Sears, U.S. President of Liebeskind Berlin. Coolest. Person. Ever. This Love Child isn’t your typical global fashion company president. She’s a mother of three who’s brought at least one of her progeny to Burning Man.
Nathalie Sears, U.S. President of Liebeskind Berlin
Yes. Nathalie is like a burst of fire that sparks everything in her path. A straight-shooting, passionate business guru with a career kicked off at Calypso St. Bart and Montblanc North America, Nathalie bonded with Liebeskind over their belief in value. “I love the entrepreneurial environment here, the fact that we do things differently.” Liebeskind’s brand motto, if not actually about her, speaks to her: “We are risk-takers by day, lovers by night, travelers by choice, rebellious by fate, and handbag obsessed by design.”
She gives major props to her support lineup handpicked from previous work relations. “I’m all about my team. I have been very fortunate to have great mentors in my life and truly believe in the principle of paying it forward. I’m faithful that way,” she says. “Even if I have moments of stress , I am grateful for their support and the fact that they are willing to hang in there with me!”
As at home in a boardroom as she is at beating boredom, this executrix rarely says no to any experience. She’s hiked icy mountain glaciers, trekked the verdant peaks of Machu Picchu, scuba dived the Norwegian Sea, and of course, traipsed around the Black Rock Desert of Nevada with her teenage son in tow.
Cool facts about this global rebel? She is a big-hearted humanitarian who travels to places like Cambodia and Burma, raising money for things like reading lamps for orphanages. She eats French candies daily, de-stresses with yoga, and lives for travel, although she was a white-knuckle flyer before an emergency landing in a cornfield cured that. Of course, she thrives on occasional retail therapy, loves her Liebeskind Berlin bag, and counts as her favorite possession is a little namesake necklace given to her as a child that means “born in heaven” in Arabic: her Catholic Lebanese grandfather kidnapped her Syrian Muslim grandmother to be able to marry her and Nathalie says, “Every time I touch it, it reminds me of the many forms love can take.” She credits Emile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dame (read during recovery from a terrible car accident at age 9) for her both her reading and retail passions. I bet you’d never guess she once dated a president, though he was not in office then and isn’t now.
But don’t ask. Some things are better left cool and mysterious, much like our President.
Who’s your coolest boss ever and why?
