The Dinh Van jewelry house says goodbye to its founder

The designer Jean Dinh Van passed away last Saturday night at the age of 94.

The jeweler Jean Dinh Van, founder of the jewelry brand Dinh Van died last weekend, following a stroke, his wife told AFP. She added that a ceremony would be organized in Boulogne-Billancourt, where he was born in 1927.

Jean Dinh Van, Breton of Vietnamese origin by his father, had trained at the jeweler Cartier before opening his first store in Paris in 1965. The house was the first to introduce minimalism in jewelry. The founder has succeeded in infusing the brand with a desire to shake up the codes of “classic” jewelry by drawing inspiration from everyday details and objects.

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Jean Dinh Van’s approach was to “offer a modern luxury, a jewelry to be worn on a daily basis“, says the brand to explain the fame of its founder. He was inspired by many objects such as razor blades, cufflinks or handcuffs, which he liked to divert to make jewelry, now cult.

In 1998, Jean Dinh Van sold his company to Yves Mouriès, the CEO of Aigle SA and Eric Laporte. Since then, Dinh Van stores have flourished and the brand has expanded internationally. “At that time, the world of fashion, furniture and architecture was in full revolution, new signatures had appeared, and in jewelry: nothing! I wanted to bring jewelry to the street. Women were beginning to emancipate themselves and I wanted them to be able to buy their own rings and bracelets,” explained Jean Dinh Van to Le Temps magazine in 2006.

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Hélène Cougot

Passionnée depuis son plus jeune âge par l’art et la mode, Hélène s’oriente vers une école de stylisme, l’Atelier Chardon-Savard à Paris, avec une option Communication. Afin d’ajouter des cordes à son arc, elle décide de compléter sa formation par un MBA en Management du Luxe et Marketing Expérientiel à l’Institut Supérieur de Gestion à Paris dont elle sort diplômée en 2020. Elle a notamment écrit des articles lifestyle et beauté pour le magazine Do it in Paris et se spécialise en rédaction d’articles concernant le luxe, l’art et la mode au sein du magazine Luxus Plus.********** [EN] Passionate about art and fashion from a young age, Hélène went to a fashion design school, Atelier Chardon-Savard in Paris, with a Communication option. In order to add more strings to her bow, she decided to complete her education with an MBA in Luxury Management and Experiential Marketing at the Institut Supérieur de Gestion in Paris from which she graduated in 2020. She has written lifestyle and beauty articles for Do it in Paris magazine and specializes in writing articles about luxury, art and fashion for Luxus Plus magazine.