There he was part of a "gang" composed among others of Eva Ionesco, Christian Louboutin, Edwige Belmore, Farida and Djemila Khelfa.
[5] In the exclusive and unmissable discotheque of the era, he rubbed shoulders with Olivia Putman, Pierre Le-Tan,[2] and met Paquita Paquin,[7] Azzedine Alaïa,[3] and Arielle Dombasle.
[8] After graduation, Darré worked for the couture house of Yves Saint Laurent, but found it boring and old fashioned and left after only a few months.
He offered one-off pieces and small editions of certain designs which included rugs, consoles, and lighting fixtures.
[3] Then at 21 Place Vendôme, in the salons of Maison Schiaparelli with decoration described as "whimsical",[14] he recreated the surrealist and offbeat atmosphere of the past in a heterogeneous way, through furniture of his own creation, associated with paintings by Pierre Le-Tan, drawings by Jean Cocteau, old mirrors by Saint Laurent and all sorts of objects.
[11] He includes his drawings and invited his friends Bernard Chapuis, Philippe Azoury, and Paquita Paquin to participate in the magazine.
[22][2][23] At the end of 2022, Darré staged 200 pieces dating from the 1930s to the 1950s from the collections of the Mobilier National in the Gobelins Manufactory and had personalized sets made for the event.
[24] Darré had a small role in the 2000 film Scénarios sur la drogue, in the episode directed by Guillaume Canet,[25] in Mon Idole in 2002,[26] and in Michel Vaillant in 2003.