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Stéphane & Bernard St Barts

Stéphane and Bernard, a story of two lives, the lives of two men whose lives gradually intermingled to form one life together.

Stéphane at age fifteen, with his artistic spirit, studied at the ‘Conservatorie National d’Art Dramatique’ (The Arts and Dramatic Society) in Paris. He was destined for a career in acting. A beautiful and refined child, he was one of Paris’s most sort-after young fashion models for the Catherine Harles collection. Torn between two careers, acting and fashion modeling, Stéphane became a model for Vogue.

Bernard was born into a Colonial family in Guadeloupe. At fifteen years old, he was destined for a career in the Hotel business. Secretly making his own clothes, he loved the Haute Couture and created his own designs. It was at this age that Bernard discovered St. Barth and he knew instinctively that one day he would live here. He loved the island.

Stéphane, at twenty-nine years old, already a Model Agent for several years and like a whirlwind he scanned the agencies of the opt fashion capitals, Paris, Milan, Munich, Barcelona, London and New York. It was a life of glitter and fun, but also extremely tiring work. Unexpectedly, he went to Guadeloupe in 1974. On the same day, Bernard, now aged seventeen, accompanied by his brother, also a model, went to the airport. They were there to welcome Stéphane, who was his brother’s agent. Their eyes met for the first time. Bernard awaited his ‘coming of age’ and the end of his hotel schooling, to join Stéphane in Paris.