List of Charvet customers


Charvet Place Vendôme or simply Charvet is a French high-end bespoke and ready-to-wear shirtmaker, located at 28 Place Vendôme in Paris.
Its list of customers is notable for its time span, Charvet existing since 1838 and having been the first shirt store ever, and as a paradigm of an international "aristo-dandy crossover community". In the 19th century, the shirtmaker both specialized in "royal haberdashery" and attracted the patronage of artists. In the 20th century, with the development of fashion design, designers and fashion journalists became a significant customer group. Some other customers' interest in the brand has become a notable aspect of their personality. In keeping with a tradition of discretion of French couture houses, the company declines to comment on its customers list, as a service to its customers.

Kings, princes, heads of state and heads of government

Name, surnameNationalityOccupationBorn
Abdul Hamid IITurkishSultan1842
Alfonso XII of Spain SpanishKing1857
Alfonso XIII of Spain SpanishKing1886
Antoine, Duke of Montpensier FrenchPrince1824
Barre, RaymondFrenchPrime minister1924
Carter, JimmyAmericanPresident1924
Charles, Prince of WalesBritishPrince1948
Chirac, JacquesFrenchPresident1932
Churchill, WinstonBritishPrime minister1874
de Gaulle, CharlesFrenchPresident1890
Deschanel, PaulFrenchPresident1855
Edward VII of the United Kingdom EnglishKing1841
Edward VIII of the United KingdomEnglishPrince1894
Farouk of EgyptEgyptianKing1920
Grimaldi, StéphanieMonegasquePrincess1965
Haughey, Charles IrishPrime minister1925
Ali Jinnah, MuhamadPakistaniGovernor-General1876
Kennedy, John F. AmericanPresident1917
Mitterrand, FrançoisFrenchPresident1916
de Morny, MathildeFrenchPrincess1863
Moro, AldoItalianPrime minister1916
Nicholas I of MontenegroMontenegrinKing1841
Obama, BarackAmericanPresident1961
Pavlos of GreeceGreekPrince1967
Pavlovich, DmitriRussianGrand Duke1891
Singh, Bhupinder IndianMaharajah1891
Philippe, comte de ParisFrenchPrince1838
Pompidou, GeorgesFrenchPresident1911
Reagan, RonaldAmericanPresident1911
Sarkozy, NicolasFrenchPresident1955
Truman, HarryAmericanPresident1884

Writers, artists and actors

Name, surnameNationalityOccupationBorn
Acton, HaroldBritishWriter1904
Adorf, MarioGermanActor1930
Astaire, FredAmericanActor1899
Baer, ÉdouardFrenchActor1966
Baudelaire, CharlesFrenchPoet1821
Barton, Ralph AmericanPainter1891
Beaton, CecilEnglishPhotographer1904
Edwards Bello, JoaquínChileanWriter1887
Bergen, CandiceAmericanActress1946
Berlioz, HectorFrenchComposer1803
Betjeman, JohnBritishWriter1906
Birkin, JaneBritishActress1946
Bloom, AllanAmericanWriter1930
Bourget, PaulFrenchWriter1852
Brynner, YulRussianActor1920
Broun, HeywoodAmericanJournalist1888
Bywater, MichaelBritishWriter1953
Cambaceres, EugenioArgentinianWriter1843
Cocteau, JeanFrenchWriter1889
Cooper, GaryAmericanActor1901
Condo, GeorgeAmericanVisual artist1957
Coppola, Francis FordAmericanFilm director1939
Coppola, RomanAmericanFilm director1965
Coppola, SofiaAmericanFilm director1971
Coward, NoëlBritishActor1899
Crosby, BingAmericanSinger1903
Crowley, AleisterBritishWriter1875
Dano, PaulAmericanActor1984
Debussy, ClaudeFrenchComposer1862
Denby, EdwinAmericanWriter1903
Deneuve, CatherineFrenchActress1943
Diaghilev, SergeiRussianBallet impresario1872
D'Ormesson, JeanFrenchWriter1925
:fr:Édouard Dujardin|Dujardin, ÉdouardFrenchWriter1861
Dunaway, FayeAmericanActress1941
Eiffel, GustaveFrenchArchitect1832
Feig, PaulAmericanDirector1962
Fairbanks, DouglasAmericanActor1883
Fargue, Léon-PaulFrenchWriter1876
Ferry, BrianEnglishSinger1945
Février, JacquesFrenchPianist1900
Firbank, RonaldBritishWriter1886
Follett, KenEnglishWriter1949
Gainsbourg, SergeFrenchSinger1928
Gary, Romain FrenchWriter1914
Gernsback, HugoAmericanWriter1884
Grant White, RichardAmericanWriter1822
Guinness, DaphneBritishActress1967
Guitry, Sacha FrenchActor1885
:fr:Jacques Hébertot|Hébertot, JacquesFrenchproducer1886
Hemingway, ErnestAmericanWriter1899
Hergesheimer, JosephAmericanWriter1880
Hockney, DavidBritishPainter1937
Howard, BrianBritishpoet1905
Kelly, KevinAmericaneditor1952
Irons, JeremyEnglishActor1948
Larbaud, ValeryFrenchWriter1881
Kaufman, George S.AmericanWriter1889
Le Bargy, CharlesFrenchActor1858
Lebowitz, FranAmericanWriter1950
Leigh Fermor, PatrickBritishWriter1915
Lennon, SeanAmericanMusician1975
Lévy, Bernard-Henry FrenchWriter1948
Luchini, FabriceFrenchActor1951
Manet, ÉdouardFrenchPainter1832
Marcosson, Isaac FrederickAmericaneditor1877
Matisse, HenriFrenchPainter1869
Mayle, PeterBritishWriter1939
Menjou, AdolpheAmericanActor1890
Modiano, PatrickFrenchWriter1945
Monet, ClaudeFrenchPainter1840
Montesquiou, Robert deFrenchPoet1855
Morand, PaulFrenchWriter1888
Noiret, PhilippeFrenchActor1930
Niemeyer, OscarBrazilianArchitect1907
Offenbach, JacquesFrenchComposer1819
Pidgeon, WalterCanadianActor1897
Proust, Marcel FrenchWriter1871
Radiguet, RaymondFrenchWriter1905
Reverdy, PierreFrenchWriter1889
Richman, HarryAmericanActor1895
Rostand, EdmondFrenchWriter1868
:fr:Maurice Rostand|Rostand, MauriceFrenchWriter1891
Runyon, DamonAmericanWriter1880
Sand, GeorgeFrenchWriter1804
Schofield, LeoAustralianCritic1935
Saraiva, AndréFrenchGraffiti artist1971
Simenon, GeorgesBelgianWriter1903
Sitwell, OsbertEnglishWriter1892
Stein, GertrudeAmericanWriter1874
Thomson, VirgilAmericanComposer1896
de Tocqueville, AlexisFrenchWriter1805
Thurman, UmaAmericanActress1970
Van Vechten, CarlAmericanPhotographer1880
Waugh, EvelynEnglishWriter1903
Welles, OrsonAmericanFilm director1915
White, StanfordAmericanArchitect1853
Wilde, OscarIrishWriter1854
Wilder, BillyAmericanFilm director1906
Willis, BruceAmericanActor1955
Wolfe, TomAmericanWriter1931
Wright, Frank LloydAmericanArchitect1867
Zola, ÉmileFrenchWriter1840

Designers and fashion specialists

Name, surnameNationalityOccupationBorn
Altuzarra, JosephFrenchDesigner1985
Baron, Fabien FrenchEditor1959
Bastian, MichaelAmericanFashion designer1965
Blahnik, ManoloSpanishDesigner1942
Boateng, OzwaldBritishDesigner1967
Bowles, HamishBritishEditor1963
Campbell, Thomas P.AmericanMuseum director1962
Cardin, PierreFrenchDesigner1922
de Castelbajac, Jean-CharlesFrenchdesigner1949
Chanel, Coco FrenchDesigner1883
Conran, JasperEnglishDesigner1959
Dello Russo, AnnaItalianEditor at large1962
Elkann, LapoItalianEntrepreneur1977
:de:Joseph Ettedgui|Ettedgui, JosephBritishFashion retailer1936
Fekkai, FrédéricFrenchHairdresser1958
Galanos, JamesAmericanDesigner1924
Galliano, JohnEnglishDesigner1960
Kors, MichaelAmericanDesigner1959
Lagerfeld, KarlGermanDesigner1933
Louboutin, Christian FrenchDesigner1963
Monteil GermaineFrenchDesigner1898
Moss, KateEnglishModel1974
Mugler, ThierryFrenchDesigner1948
O'Brien, GlennAmericanEditor
:fr:Lucas Ossendrijver|Ossendrijver, LucasDutchArtistic director1971
Perriand, CharlotteFrenchDesigner1903
Picasso, PalomaFrenchDesigner1949
Posen, ZacAmericanDesigner1980
Roitfeld, CarineFrenchEditor-in-Chief1954
Rucci, Ralph AmericanDesigner1957
Saint Laurent, YvesFrenchDesigner1936
Sánchez, FernandoSpanishFashion designer1935
Sarafpour, BehnazAmericanDesigner
Takada, KenzoJapaneseDesigner1939
Taschen, BenediktGermanArt publisher1961
Talley, André Leon AmericanEditor1949
Testino, MarioPeruvianPhotographer1954
Tisci, RiccardoItalianDesigner1974
Tonchi, StefanoAmericanEditor1959
:fr:Ramdane Touhami|Touhami, RamdaneFrenchDesigner1974
von Fürstenberg, DianeGermanFashion designer1946
Wall, Berry AmericanSocialite1860
Wolff, MichaelAmericanJournalist1953
York, PeterBritishColumnist

Other clients with a notable interest in Charvet

Name, surnameNationalityOccupationBorn
Bigelow, William Sturgis AmericanDoctor1850
Blagojevich, Rod AmericanPolitician1956
Capel, Arthur "Boy" EnglishBusinessman1881
Kelly, Ray AmericanCommissioner1941
Madoff, Bernard AmericanStockbroker1938
Tang, David ChineseBusinessman1954