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Vincent Darré (born January 13, 1959) is a French stylist and interior designer. From 1995 to 2001, he was the assistant of Karl Lagerfeld. Later, he was the head designer at Moschino, then the artistic director of Ungaro. He currently designs interiors and furniture.

Early life

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Darré was born in Paris on January 13, 1959.[1] His parents were intellectuals, his father was a communist sociologist and his mother is described as a "feminist, bohemian".[2] His uncle is Spanish writer and politician Jorge Semprún.[3] He attended the École alsacienne.[4] He studied at the Studio Berçot.[5]

At the end of the 1970s, he met the disc jockey Philippe Krootchey and regularly attended La Main bleue, a nightclub in Montreuil[6] opened by François Baudot and Philippe Starck. There he was part of a "gang" composed among others of Eva Ionesco, Christian Louboutin, Edwige Belmore, Farida and Djemila Khelfa. They became regulars at Le Palace after he begged Fabrice Emaer to let them in when they first tried to attend.[6] He was noticed there for his offbeat and somewhat eccentric outfits: "he tied a rope around the waist of his Prince of Wales trousers and danced barefoot".[5] In the exclusive and unmissable discotheque of the era, he rubbed shoulders with Olivia Putman, Pierre Le-Tan,[2] and met Paquita Paquin,[7] Azzedine Alaïa,[3] and Arielle Dombasle.[8]

Career

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After graduation, Darré worked for the couture house of Yves Saint Laurent, but found it boring and old fashioned and left after only a few months. He then worked for Claude Montana. After there, he worked a number of jobs in Italy, including at Prada.[9]

From 1995 to 2001, Darré worked for Karl Lagerfeld at Fendi.[10] In 2001, he became the head designer of Moschino. In 2004, he became artistic director of Ungaro.[2][11] He was fired from the company after two seasons.[12] According to him, he "took a step back and realized that when I was designing furniture, I was having a blast."[3] In the 2000s, he founded his company, "Maison Darré", which was established the following decade on Rue Royale in an apartment that served as both offices and a showroom.[2][13]

In June 2008, Darré opened his home gallery, Maison Darré, at 32 Rue du Mont Thabor in Paris. He traveled to India, Venice, and Vietnam to find artisans to craft his "Tim Burton-esque designs". He offered one-off pieces and small editions certain designs which included rugs, consoles, and lighting fixtures. His offerings are similar to the decour of his Left Bank apartment which he "decorated with skulls, vintage medical equipment and 3-D anatomy charts" and "groovy midcentury Knoll chairs, Venetian mirrors and quirky, Baroque candelabras."[14]

In 2008, Darré was hired by André and Olivier Zahm to decorate Le Baron in New York.[3] Then at 21 Place Vendôme, in the salons of Maison Schiaparelli with decoration described as "whimsical",[15] he recreated the surrealist and offbeat atmosphere of the past in a heterogeneous way, through furniture of his own creation, associated with paintings by Pierre Le-Tan, drawings by Jean Cocteau, old mirrors by Saint Laurent and all sorts of objects.[16] In March 2014, he was announced as part of the gastronomic and cultural project "La Jeune Rue".[17] The following year, he decorated the six suites of the Hôtel Montana by Jean-Yves Le Fur near the Café de Flore, whose bar he had already decorated a few years earlier;[3] he mixed aesthetically varied pieces with his own creations, establishing a different style on each floor.[18][19] At the end of 2015, he created a surrealist collection of furniture inspired by Salvador Dali.[20]

In 2013, he became a regular contributor to L'Officiel serving as a curator for several issues per year,[11] He includes his drawings and invites his friends Bernard Chapuis, Philippe Azoury and Paquita Paquin to participate in the magazine.[5]

In 2016, Darré auctioned off the contents of his Parisian apartment through the auction house Piasa.[21] He stated that the sale was part of a "desire to re-invent myself."[22]

At the end of 2022, he staged 200 pieces, dating from the 1930s to the 1950s, from the Mobilier National to the Gobelins Manufactory and had personalized sets made for the event.[23]

In film

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Darré had a small role in the 2000 film Scénarios sur la drogue, in the episode directed by Guillaume Canet,[24] in Mon Idole in 2002,[25] and in Michel Vaillant in 2003.[26] He was responsible for the costumes in the 2004 TV film Milady by Josée Dayan.[27]

Publications

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  • Marie-France Boyer; Vincent Darré (December 2018). Rizzoli Flammarion (ed.). Intérieurs surréalistes (in French). New York/Paris/London etc. ISBN 978-0-8478-6461-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • The Little Theater of Vincent Darré (2022)

References

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  1. ^ "Le prince des styles". Libération.fr (in French). 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  2. ^ a b c d Sixtine Dubly (8 June 2018). "Vincent Darré : Du Palace à la rue Royale, le nouveau chic français". parismatch.com.
  3. ^ a b c d e Marion Vignal (3 February 2012). "L'univers extravagant de Vincent Darré". lexpress.fr.
  4. ^ "Vincent Darré - purple MAGAZINE".
  5. ^ a b c Paquita Paquin. "Vincent Darré, double hommage à Jean Cocteau". Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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  7. ^ Musée Galliera; Anna Zazzo; Farid Chenoune; Sylvie Lécallier; Didier Grumbach; Dominique Veillon; et al. (2006). Showtime: le défilé de mode (in French). Paris: Paris Musées. p. 191. ISBN 2-87900-941-3. {{cite book}}: |contributor= requires |contribution= (help)
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  9. ^ https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/vincent-darre/?srsltid=AfmBOoov5BNnVEI22xHFIkUlsYPnWOV_rqxkpY6tTlPvCzYFuSRHwVxd
  10. ^ Burlet, Fleur (September 19, 2019). "A Day at the Paris Flea Market With Decorator Vincent Darré".
  11. ^ a b Elvire von Bardeleben (5 June 2013). "La presse mode revue et corrigée". next.liberation.fr. Libération. Retrieved 12 December 2013. Vincent Darré, ex-directeur artistique d'Ungaro, aujourd'hui propriétaire de sa propre marque de design, qui rejoint la dream team des people curateurs aux Éditions Jalou (après le graffeur André Saraiva pour l'Officiel hommes et le critique d'art Jérôme Sans pour l'Officiel art). Darré prendra en charge l'Officiel mode pour quatre numéros par an (en octobre, décembre, mars et juin-juillet).
  12. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/t-magazine/vincent-darre-paris-home.html
  13. ^ Clémence Leboulanger (29 December 2017). "Découvrez l'appartement fantastique de Vincent Darré". elle.fr.
  14. ^ "Vincent Darre Gets Personal with Foray into Furniture". 25 April 2008.
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  17. ^ François-Régis Gaudry (25 March 2014). ""La Jeune Rue" dans le Marais, le projet gastronomique et design qui va changer Paris". L'Express.
  18. ^ Article ([[Special:EditPage/{{{1}}}|edit]] | [[Talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] | [[Special:PageHistory/{{{1}}}|history]] | [[Special:ProtectPage/{{{1}}}|protect]] | [[Special:DeletePage/{{{1}}}|delete]] | [{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/{{{1}}}|limit=999}} links] | [{{fullurl:{{{1}}}|action=watch}} watch] | logs | views)
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  20. ^ "Stupéfiante Chambre de décorateurs !". Residences Decoration Magazine. 12 August 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  21. ^ Covian, Hannah Martin,Oleg (November 22, 2016). "Why Vincent Darré Is Selling the Contents of His Totally Surreal Paris Apartment". Architectural Digest.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ Menkes, Suzy (November 21, 2016). "Vincent Darré: Selling Up To Re-Invent Himself". British Vogue.
  23. ^ Article ([[Special:EditPage/{{{1}}}|edit]] | [[Talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] | [[Special:PageHistory/{{{1}}}|history]] | [[Special:ProtectPage/{{{1}}}|protect]] | [[Special:DeletePage/{{{1}}}|delete]] | [{{fullurl:Special:WhatLinksHere/{{{1}}}|limit=999}} links] | [{{fullurl:{{{1}}}|action=watch}} watch] | logs | views)
  24. ^ "Escenarios de la droga". RTVE.es. August 8, 2005.
  25. ^ "MON IDOLE". www.cinema-francais.fr.
  26. ^ "MICHEL VAILLANT". www.cinema-francais.fr.
  27. ^ "Milady". December 30, 2005 – via Le Monde.
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