Hervé Pierre

Early life and education

After graduating from the École de la chambre syndicale de la couture parisienne,, he studied at the art history department of the Sorbonne.

Career Donald Trump dancing with Melania Trump, who is wearing a gown by Hervé Pierre (2017). In 1987, he received the first Christian Dior award from the Comité Colbert. The next year, he became assistant to Erik Mortensen at the Balmain fashion house. After the departure of Mortensen, Pierre created three of his own fashion collections in 1991 and 1992. and then moved to Bill Blass to work under then-creative director Lars Nilsson. After Bill Blass, he worked for Carolina Herrera for fourteen years, where he left a position as creative director in February 2016. His clients have included U.S. first ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama. It had a high slit, an arch across the torso and a red silk belt around the waistline. Pierre described Trump's contributions as both technical and aesthetic. Trump's Save America political action committee paid $132,000 to Pierre in 2022, after Trump left office, supposedly for "strategy consulting."