The elegant silhouette of a busy pin-up! That’s the impression that Claudine Ivari leaves on you when you meet her. Gentle yet firm, vibrant yet determined, brimming with poetry an intense energy: a series of contradictions that give her the perfect profile of a designer.
So where does this vocation come from? A mother and a grandmother passionate about fashion and, a multi-cultural family. Talent is not inherent but inclination is!
When Claudine expressed her longing to her mother, she was concerned to see her daughter evolving in such an environment and tried to dissuade her. But she was not having it! Claudine studied History of Art and Business Management at the American University of Paris. And, from art to fashion, there was just one step ... that Claudine eventually took by integrating the famous Esmod fashion school.
She graduated from the New Couture section, and in 2009, supported by her family, she created her very own fashion house. An incredible opportunity that she grasped with open arms. Claudine is inspired and loyal. She set up an haute couture studio and surrounded herself with the finest masters of this art: embroiderers, modelists, technicians.
An historic building situated at 79 bis, avenue Marceau houses her showroom, a magnificent champagne-colour boutique and with and four sisters as models and muses the adventure begins.
The designer develops a ready-to-wear concept, 100% made in France but with a difference, couture details (hand embroidery and noble textiles), available in two collections. Firstly, the seasonal line renewed every six months during Fashion Week in Paris and a second collection, including recurring designs, called “Intemporelle” or “Timeless”. An haute couture, made-to-measure service is also available to clients.
With her attentive ear and the generosity she shows by sharing her know-how, she offers women the rare luxury of being, quite simply unique!