
Photo: Carol Girod Battesti, analogue film, We Love Green 2025.
Interim management · Paris
Interim management for fashion, beauty, sport and culture brands.
Carol Girod Battesti takes the helm of brands for 3 to 18 months, as interim CEO, COO or CCO. She turns the numbers around, puts the organisation back in order and makes the brand desirable again, with a creative eye shaped by art, photography and street culture.
In short
I take the role that's missing.
As an interim executive, I step in when a brand needs to recover, reorganise or reinvent itself. I work on finance, organisation and image at the same time, with a network of creatives and experts. I also structure the offer: collections, product ranges and merchandising that make people want to buy and deliver healthy margins. Every day I work with AI and Notion, and I get teams to adopt them.
Creativity & culture
An executive who comes from creation.
Photographer, producer, art director of campaigns: culture is not a side activity to my work. It is what lets me understand what new generations want, and translate it into products, images and experiences.
Le Beau Monde, two sides
Each feeds the other: what I spot in culture, I turn into decisions for brands.
- Art directionCampaigns, shoots, films, casting photographers and directors.
- ExperientialPop-ups, corners and activations: Selfridges, Galeries Lafayette, AMV Tour.
- Exhibition“La bifurcation dans la mode” at Ground Control, Paris (2022): nine artists selected from 450 applications.
- ProductionDocumentaries and short films with Le Beau Monde.
- PhotographyTen years of analogue street photography, the Style Français series.
- Art & teachingCo-chair of Cartels Paris, an artist residency (2023–2025). Lecturer in emotional marketing at ESMOD.

Industries
The lifestyle industries.
- Fashion & ready-to-wear
- Luxury & craftsmanship
- Beauty & cosmetics
- Sport & sportswear
- Lifestyle, home & living
- Culture: art, music, publishing
- Kids & kiddults
- Retail & e-commerce
01 · The offer
Interim management
Interim CEO, COO or CCO, diagnostic, advisor. Formats and fees.
02 · The proof
References
OMY, Marine Serre, Nike, Ralph Lauren, Sephora, American Vintage…
03 · The method
Methodology
The five stages of a mandate, from day one to handover.
04 · The person
Carol
Twenty years of brands, culture and photography.
Contact
A role to fill? Let's talk this week.
30 minutes, free and confidential.