Fashion Consultant – Maison Margiela, The Grove – Chalhoub Group

Chalhoub Group is hiring a Fashion Consultant for Maison Margiela at The Grove in Abu Dhabi, a client-facing retail role within one of the world’s most distinctive luxury fashion houses. Maison Margiela, now part of the OTB group, is known for its avant-garde, boundary-pushing approach to fashion, and this role is about bringing that brand identity to life for customers in-store.

The work is classic luxury retail at its best: welcoming and genuinely engaging with clients, understanding what they’re looking for and guiding them through the collection, building long-term client relationships rather than one-off transactions, and representing Maison Margiela’s distinctive brand identity and Chalhoub’s service standards in every interaction. Luxury fashion retail of this caliber depends heavily on consultants who can build real rapport and trust with discerning clients.

It suits someone with genuine passion for fashion and luxury retail, ideally with prior experience in a luxury or premium fashion brand environment, who combines strong client-relationship skills with real product and brand knowledge – and who’s excited specifically about a boundary-pushing house like Maison Margiela rather than luxury fashion in general.

In luxury fashion retail, the in-store experience is often the primary reason a client chooses to buy from a physical boutique rather than online, and a Fashion Consultant who builds genuine rapport and understands a client's taste is directly responsible for converting that in-person moment into a sale and, more importantly, a repeat client relationship. For Maison Margiela specifically, a house known for its distinctive, avant-garde identity, consultants who can authentically represent that brand voice protect the exclusivity and brand integrity that justifies the price point. For Chalhoub Group, which partners with Maison Margiela and other major luxury houses across the region, consistently excellent in-store representation is part of what makes it a trusted distribution partner that luxury brands want to continue working with in the UAE market. It also protects Maison Margiela's standing with Chalhoub as a distribution partner, since consistently strong in-store representation is part of what earns continued trust and expanded brand partnerships across the region over time.

Working as a Fashion Consultant for a house as distinctive as Maison Margiela gives someone genuine, specialized experience in avant-garde luxury fashion retail - a different and arguably more demanding skill set than consulting for more conventional luxury brands, since representing Margiela's identity authentically requires real engagement with the brand's design philosophy. Being part of Chalhoub Group, the Middle East's leading luxury retail and distribution partner, also means access to training, career development, and mobility across its wide portfolio of luxury fashion, beauty, and jewellery brands, so strong consultants often have a path toward Senior Consultant, boutique management, or moving across to other prestigious brands within the Chalhoub portfolio. This kind of high-end, brand-specific retail experience is a strong credential across the broader luxury retail sector in the UAE and internationally, where genuine passion and product knowledge for a specific fashion house is increasingly what distinguishes strong candidates. It also builds a genuinely distinctive personal brand within luxury retail, since experience representing a design-forward house like Margiela signals real fashion sophistication to future employers in a way that representing a more conventional luxury brand might not. That distinctiveness is a genuine, lasting career asset within the luxury retail world. It's a strong, memorable credential early in a luxury retail career.

• Previous experience in luxury or premium fashion retail, ideally with a recognized fashion house
• Genuine passion for fashion, with strong product and brand knowledge or the eagerness to build it quickly
• Excellent client relationship-building and consultative selling skills
• Strong communication skills and a polished, professional client-facing manner
• Comfortable working toward sales targets within a luxury retail environment
• Flexibility to work retail hours, including weekends and peak shopping periods
• Multilingual ability is an advantage given Abu Dhabi’s international clientele