The designer
Born in 1968, Delphine-Charlotte Parmentier grew up in a world where creation is very present. She spends many Wednesday afternoons in her grandparents' button and fashion accessories workshop, where she meets stylists from luxury houses, develops her imagination, her interest in excellent craftsmanship, and her innate taste for fashion. As soon as she obtained her baccalaureate, she enrolled at Studio BERÇOT, from where she graduated as a stylist in 1989.
During these studies, she had already started to accessorize the parades of young designers, with her first creations of costume jewellery.
She moved to rue de la Lune in Paris, in the former workshop of her grandparents, and experimented, to create her jewellery, with unexpected materials, such as ceramics, which she shapes and transforms into long necklaces made up of tiny rosebuds, which are found at the show of a great stylist.
Very quickly, she presented her models to designers from major ready-to-wear or haute couture houses, such as Karl Lagerfeld, Lacroix, Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Chloé, Hanae Mori, Valentino, Kenzo, Balenciaga... for whom she invents models that are sometimes romantic, sometimes “rock punk”, which will remain her trademark.
In 1993, she launched her own eponymous line, explored all aspects of jewellery, and presented two collections a year, always innovative, to the rhythm of Paris Fashion Weeks.
In 1997, she found a new workshop in the Marais in Paris and opened her first boutique.
The brand of Delphine-Charlotte PARMENTIER quickly won over internationally, particularly in Japan.
Delphine expands her team, and surrounds herself with stylists, craftsmen, model makers...
Driven by a free, rebellious, and avant-garde spirit, she always surprises and constantly reinvents herself, thus creating a personal and timeless style.
Delphine-Charlotte PARMENTIER jewels are often audacious, always unique, like the designer who shifts the codes, drawing her inspiration from the world of art as well as from the street.
Today, thanks to her strong heritage and the know-how acquired from her, her workshop perpetuates the designer's work, who died in May 2020. It continues to create jewels that astonish and resemble her under the artistic direction of Patrick PICQUE, who was one of the first assistants to follow her on her adventure.
