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Marie Saint Pierre is a Montreal fashion designer known for high-end ready-to-wear women’s clothing that combines luxury with function and performance. Inspired by architecture, she designs minimalist silhouettes with unexpected volumes, tailored using technical fabrics.

The artistry of her creations led her to become the first fashion designer to be admitted to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2017.

A fashion design graduate of LaSalle College in Montreal, Marie Saint Pierre, who was born Marie-Josée Charest, launched her business in 1986 under the brand name Marie Victoire.

Her first collection consisted of three models of coats produced in a small room on the ground floor of Habitat 67, where her parents lived. The following year, she moved her atelier to an industrial loft on Wellington Street.

At the same time, she decided to adopt the last name of her mother, Réjeanne St-Pierre, and renamed her label Marie Saint Pierre.