Stella Cadente like lightning

Fingers set with silver sparrowhawk rings, nails painted alternately in deep purple and parma, Stanislassia Klein, alias Stella Cadente, was born under a lucky star. She found her pseudonym in a flash when she created her brand in 1991. In Italian, it means “shooting star”. A happy omen. Her career began with Claude Montana, whom she assisted, then she went on to collaborate until she unveiled her own clothes and accessories under her sparkling label. With that natural Slavic nonchalance. The only coquetry of this mother of four children: to keep her age silent. According to the principle that we have three, the one we have in our head, the real one and the one we are given. Stella Cadente is right. She has the charm of eternal teenagers. Chance makes him meet his professional alter ego, the photographer Florian Claudel. They set up the Stella Cadente Studio together. Under her favorite leather jacket, she now takes on the role of “global artistic director”. Every day is a happening where she reinvents everyday life in the heart of restaurants, hotels, shops and exhibitions. Beautiful stories, like those told to him by his grandmother Jeanne...

Once upon a time…

From a Ukrainian father and a Swiss-German mother, Stella Cadente confides as a prologue: “I was born in Paris but I always had the impression of coming from elsewhere. My paternal family fled the Bolshevik revolution to land here with furniture and souvenirs. They never left the huge apartment in Plaine Monceau where they landed in 1917; there were about twenty of us wandering around its 400m ² filled with noise, laughter and stories. I lived until I was 12 in this strange atmosphere, comparable to that of an inhabited caravan of travellers. Nourished by the cruelty of Slavic tales (children lost in the forests and eaten by wolves) and the horrible characters of German legends, such as the Struwwelpeter (translate "Ruffled Peter", who cuts off the fingers of toddlers who gnaw their nails), Stella Cadente seems to have been raised like the Charlie in the Tim Burton movie.

childhood inspirations

Aboard this “caravan”, Stella has the chance to grow up alongside her Russian grandmother. “She was an imposing woman, as much by her forms as by her exuberance. She was covered in jewelry and had a seamstress as her best friend. A treat for the little girl that I was. They made me clothes and dressed my dolls. I was brought up in the colors, the materials, the pins that were strewn on the ground and that they stuck at the corner of their lips to raise a fold or adjust a collar. The scent and feel of the fabrics very quickly gave me the meaning of my destiny. I knew very little how I was going to live later. My father, who was a very tortured intellectual (I never understood anything he said), registered me at SciencesPo as soon as I had my baccalaureate, at 16 years old. I resisted for two years and then managed to leave for New York to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology. On my return, I joined the benches of Studio Berçot. After two years of intense creativity, it was finally time to strike out on my own. »

Private cloakroom

The 1990s invited him to work for large houses. While assisting Claude Montana (“A genius”, she insists), Karl Lagerfeld fell in love with her necklaces made of pearls found at the Puces de Saint-Ouen. Always with her feet on the ground, although perched in her imagination in the colors of Jacques Demy's films, she opened a tiny boutique on rue Michel Leconte, in Paris, and worked at the same time for Cacharel and Corinne Cobson. Success smiled upon him. Her fantastical creations seduce "non-standard women". She moved to rue de Grenelle then inaugurated, in 1996, the first concept store in Paris. The founder of Actuel and Radio Nova, Jean-François Bizot, on the lookout for new talent, is present at the party given there. Stella Cadente's name shines on its star logo and in the dim lighting of the catwalks. She juggles with furs, feathers, embroidery, improbable mixtures of patterns in a joyful and bohemian fashion, like her. Today, she designs fashion items instead. In her primer of beneficial influences, she puts, in order of preference: ClaudeMontana (who taught her everything), Elsa Schiaparelli (whose artistic direction she would dream of), Martine Sitbon, Madeleine Vionnet, Monsieur SaintLaurent and Madame Grès.

In the land of scents

The association with a big name in cosmetics for her perfume Miss Me makes her confront the ruthless industrial economy… And Stella Cadente does not have the means to face it. However, this perfume with the scents of her childhood, imagined by the nose Annick Menardo (Acqua di Gio, Hypnotic Poison or even Lolita Lempicka), topped sales at Sephora in 2005. Stella put her stores to sleep and her imagination at the service of the luxury management of the L'Oréal group for ten years. Then, Sephora asks her to invent the identity of its Splus brand. The adventure, which has just ended, lasted three years.

Dress up hotels

With projects to decorate a hotel in Brazil and another in Casablanca, the designer duo Stella Cadente and Florian Claudel seduced by an enchanted universe bordering on fantastic tales. "We dress places as we would dress a woman, say -they in chorus, of objects found everywhere or made to measure. Their first playground is a beautiful 19th century ^residence , located in the heart of the medieval city of Provins. The rooms are called Alice, Chat Botté, Moulin Rouge or Peau d'âne. The house is too beautiful not to buy it. Stella Cadente makes it a little paradise where customers and friends meet. Inventors of a new oneirism, they have to their credit, under the emblem "HospitalityDesign", several establishments: the Salon Beaujon, the Bed and Style, the Honotel Richelieu aparthotel, the Lily Gourmet pastry shop, the Asian restaurant Chez Ly, the Italian restaurant La Rucola, the Hotel Original in Paris where they declined the seven deadly sins, the lingerie floor of Galeries Lafayette as well as private apartments. “At first, I recreated the atmosphere of the Plaine Monceau. Fortunately, Florian masculinizes and purifies. “What the interested party retorts:” She thinks black, I think white. Together, we succeed in making grey. »

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passion for photography

Endowed with a look that envelops everything around her without neglecting any detail, Stella Cadente plays with her camera to once again transform reality. When ordering an image book for the 100th anniversary of the MoulinRouge, she asked fashion photographer FlorianClaudel, whom he met at one of her shows, to devote himself to the dancers, the establishment refusing to subject them to a female lens. From this collaboration (in 2007) was born the duo "Stella & Claudel", a happy marriage of sensibilities and the same offbeat and poetic vision of the world. Instead of traditional portraits, they prefer candlelight to illuminate their animal models, for a break and the Instinct exhibition. In Sicily, in this Italy that Stella venerates, they take underwater photos to reveal the bizarre proportions of a garment submerged in water. In the colors of the Big Blue, the photos hypnotize in the exhibition called Aquatica.

A certain art of living

“A creator is greedy for everything. It is impossible for me to like clothes and not like objects. Everything is connected. I have an insatiable appetite for life,” says Stella Cadente. Decorating hotels and boutiques, managing her guest house in Provins, creating accessories and design objects, Stella Cadente cultivates an art of living that oscillates between romanticism and rock and roll. Simple pleasures delight him. In Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region where she has her knitwear made, she never misses a market before boarding her plane. In her basket, citrons, polenta with fragrant white truffles... At the table of her guest house in Provins, she has chosen an artisan cook, a former starred chef, to distil in her dishes the flavors of the delicacies that her make dream.

The taste of travel

Always between two planes, Stella and Florian travel the world, even if it means taking a quick trip to Paris between a flight arriving from Shanghai and an imminent departure for Casablanca. In China, the designer rediscovered the creative euphoria of the 1980s, when everything seemed permitted. In Morocco, she is passionate about the fabulous architectural heritage of Art Deco or neo-Moroccan style in Casablanca. In England, it is refinement and rebellious sophistication that seduce her. In his heart remain the memories of his holidays in the Little German Switzerland of his mother, in the canton of Grison, where his imagination was impregnated with colored embroidery, wooden crafts, the scents of the undergrowth, the cinnamon and clove cloud. “The countries are very inspiring by their colors, their perfumes, their nature. I am always amazed by flowers and animals. In Africa, I even tried to adopt a lion. »

Elective Affinities

From her heterogeneous collaborations, she takes a modest pride: to give her all for others. The sign of his great generosity. Chanel, Paul Ka, Swarovski, Rimmel, Helena Rubinstein, Skoda, Nespresso, Rosy lingerie or Playboy, she shares poetry and her Slavic soul with brands.

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