Biche de Bere vintage costume jewelry

Biche de Bere vintage costume jewelry
Jewelry and ready-to-wear brand Biche de Bere (founded in 1986) announced its liquidation on Tuesday, November 6, 2007. The company, which employed almost 200 employees, had to close 20 stores. In 2006, its income was 6.5 million euros, but the debt was 7 million euros.
Born December 5, 1964, Nelly Biche de Bere was a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Design Industriel in Paris. Aged twenty, she left for the United States to continue her studies at the Pratt Institute in New York. Nelly combined her studies with work as a waitress, and at night she created jewelry. Noteworthy, she created her own brand and first costume jewelry collection from recycled materials in 1986. Her talent was quickly noticed, the first large orders appeared, and for the next seven years she worked in New York.
Back in France, she founded the division of her brand in Nantes in 1993 in the partnership with her husband Christophe Caïs. Her brand quickly gained popularity and Nelly opened several stores in France and US. Already in 1994, the company opened a factory in French Chateaubriand, then another factory, and the number of stores grew. She sold her clothing and original, innovative jewelry in 59 countries.
True fashion jewelry, her designs combine minimalism and abstract, and sometimes figurative. Among most notable are modernist typographic details. She created about 37 new collections per year, and most of them in limited edition. After 2007 Nelly concentrated her life on her family, children and painting.

Biche de Bere vintage costume jewelry

During her career, Nelly was named Person of the Year and received an award as a French designer from the hands of Pierre Cardin. Her work has been exhibited in contemporary art museums in New York, San Francisco and Tel Aviv, as well as at the Georges Pompidou Center and the Grand Palace. A philanthropist, she created many of her jewelry designs in support of charitable organizations, in particular, The International Federation for Human Rights.