Chloe Corgan
| Chloe Corgan | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Chloe Corgan performing with Billy Corgan and Frank Catalano Quartet at the Together and Together Again benefit show on July 27, 2022. | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Chloé Mendel |
| Born | September 10, 1992 |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano |
| Associated acts | Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins |
| @chloemendel | |
Chloé Mendel Corgan (born September 10, 1992) is a fashion designer, creative director, business owner, and musician. She is the wife of Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, with whom she has two children. The Corgan's own Madame ZuZu's, a tea shop, vegan restaurant and performance space in Highland Park, Illinois,[1] where she serves as the creative director.[2]
Chloe Corgan has occasionally performed live with Billy Corgan, usually as a vocalist but she played piano on one song at Madame Zuzu's one year anniversary celebration.
On Chloe Corgan's 30th birthday, Billy Corgan made a marriage proposal to which she "of course said yes."[3] They married on September 16, 2023, one day before the Siamese Dream 30th Anniversary show.
Background[edit | edit source]
Raised in New York City, Chloe Corgan is the daughter of celebrity fave-designer Gilles Mendel of J. Mendel and Jenny Mui.[4] She is half Taiwanese and half French,[2] and the sixth generation family member of the house of Mendel.[5]
How the Corgan's met is unclear. Chloe was helping manage the original Madame ZuZu's 1.0 location,[6] however she was never an employee of Billy Corgan, and this is not how they met.[2] For a while, they were merely good friends and didn't formally date in a traditional sense, before eventually falling in love.[7]
They have since had two children together. Chloe Corgan gave birth to their son named Augustus Juppiter Corgan[8] on November 16, 2015. They welcomed their second child, a daughter named Philomena Clementine Corgan,[9] on October 2, 2018.
Maison Atia[edit | edit source]
Chloe Corgan studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago working with her father before launching our own faux-fur brand[10] with Gustave Maisonrouge in 2017, called Maison Atia.[11][12] The brand gained popularity among millennials thanks to Gigi Hadid[13] and Vogue Paris named it most trendy faux-fur of the winter in 2019.[14] Mendel is the company's creative director.[2]
In 2020, Billy Corgan wrote the jingle "Maison Atia" with Chloe serving as producer.
Touring stats
- Total shows: 13 shows
- First performance: Billy Corgan 2013-09-26 at Madame ZuZu's, Highland Park, IL, US
- Last performance: Billy Corgan 2023-12-31 at Madame ZuZu's, Highland Park, IL, US
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Barnas, Tom. "Billy Corgan's Madame ZuZu's Teahouse reborn in art deco space reminiscent of a 1930's tea salon". WGN9.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 https://www.instagram.com/p/CyWj-fqpkt4/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CiYDZYSpkkC/
- ↑ Ashlock, Jesse. "From Russia With Love". The New York Times.
- ↑ https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/tmagazine/interactive/jmendel.html
- ↑ "Billy Corgan and Longtime Girlfriend Chloe Mendel Just Got Engaged". Loudwire. Retrieved September 18, 2023.
- ↑ Chloe Corgan. October 3, 2023 Instagram Q&A
- ↑ http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/billy-corgan-welcomes-son-augustus-juppiter-corgan-w160199
- ↑ https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8478118/smashing-pumpkins-billy-corgan-daughter-announcement-philomena
- ↑ "Chloé Mendel Introduces New Line of Faux Furs". Visual Therapy.
- ↑ Onoda, Masato. "Brand to Know: Coats (and Home Goods) Made Entirely of Faux Fur". The New York Times Style Magazine.
- ↑ Borrell-Persson, Laird. "Maison Atia Is a Kate Moss–Approved Luxury Faux-Fur Brand That Plays With the Concept of Heritage". Vogue.
- ↑ https://www.popsugar.com/fashion/photo-gallery/44448015/image/44451627/Maison-Atia-Coat
- ↑ https://www.vogue.fr/mode/article/on-a-trouve-la-marque-de-fausse-fourrure-la-plus-mode-de-lhiver-maison-atia-mode