F. Bonrepos & P. Judelmann
Passionate
Fabrice is attracted to art, design and fashion from an early age. His studies in luxury marketing in Paris will make him multiply experiences alongside people, both passionate and visionary. It starts with a visit to Francine Brandhof then owner of one of the most famous multi-brands of the time in France, renowned for its refined and avant-garde eye. This experience will teach him everything about the profession and will introduce him to the rigorous codes of luxury. Then, other opportunities arise with Condenast editions, especially as a stylist assistant alongside fashion sizes like the Italian Manuela Pavesi or Robert Rabeinsteiner with whom he continues the shooting for Vogue, Ad ... with Helmut Newton or Peter Lindbergh.
At the turn of a shoot, a first meeting takes place with Patrick who operates on the sets as Hair Stylist. At the same time as his missions on the shooting, Patrick embarked very young in the life of an entrepreneur by opening in Bordeaux a hair salon which he will hold for 15 years; This certainly helping in the future he will base with Fabrice ... An innate sense for creation is also revealed in Patrick from his childhood through drawing. He then devoted a passion for the hats he drew hundreds.
Both from the southwest, they have attended Biarritz from an early age. They come across there by chance for a weekend again and then decide to settle their suitcases there and embark on the crazy bet of a new adventure: that of Duchatel Biarritz. It will take them a happy new year of reflection and studies to draw their foundations and find the right place. They then opened their first shop dedicated only to ready-to-wear man in the Duchatel villa at 17, avenue Edouard VII. It is obvious to them to use the name of this villa which has known so much fashion history. In addition to welcoming Hermès within its walls, its famous tenant had during the Roaring Twenties, in place of the current boutique, the Lanvin house and the jeweler Boucheron for neighbor.
Building on the success and the image they develop with man, Fabrice and Patrick will quickly be asked by the biggest houses to embark on the world of women; Which is, rightly, the logical continuation of their first adventures linked to Parisian fashion. From there arrived 5 years later the opening of Duchatel Biarritz, the expansion of their activity at 48 Avenue Edouard VII. Housed under the Lacombe arch, its large minimal space gives expression to their vision of the universe of luxury both for man and for women but also for design. A global sense of lifestyle that is both singular, chic and daring that characterizes them in adequacy with the history of Biarritz.
