Daniel Crémieux (born May 22, 1938) is a French fashion designer best known for his preppy style clothing, mainly menswear.
Inside Business, June 8, 2012 He launched his brand, Daniel Crémieux, in 1976 in
France
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Personal life
Born on May 22, 1938, in
Marseille
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, Daniel Crémieux went to
London
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when he was seventeen to study
English.
Career
Daniel's fondness for fashion started when he was very young. His father owned clothing stores in the
south of France
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, and he was constantly surrounded by beautiful clothes.
When he was seventeen, Daniel went to London to study English. It was there that he discovered the stylish elegance of braces, badges and checked pullovers worn with pride by university students. Upon his return to France, Daniel brought back a seamless Shetland sweater, something quite unknown in France at the time, and with it the foundation for his vision of a sophisticated interpretation of the emerging Preppy look.
He flew to
New York
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in late 1960s and fell more deeply in love with the preppy menswear of traditional brands. He returned to France with the desire to create the best French preppy brand available, a modern interpretation of this very traditional look.
In 1976, Daniel Crémieux launched his own brand, with an iconic golfer as its logo, and opened his first shop in
Saint-Tropez
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, on the
French Riviera
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between
Nice
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and
United States
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French fashion designers
1938 births
Living people
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