After training at the École Professionnelle des Tailors de Lyon he apprenticed at age 14 with "a local dressmaker, Pierre Court, who was authorized to reproduce Balenciaga designs.
While there, he met Hubert de Givenchy, following him when established his own label two years later.
[4] At his own brand, he "dressed the social set and 'all the Kennedy ladies,' as one reporter put it, infused conservative clothes with a youthful spirit.
"[3] According to Olivier Gabet, director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Venet" clients included arts patron Hélène David-Weill, actress Jacqueline Delubac and American society figures Mica Ertegun, Jayne Wrightsman and Marina Kellen French.
"[1] Venet died at the American Hospital of Paris on 22 February 2021 at age 91.