Dorothée Lepère Biography

Dorothée Lepère is a French interior designer and television personality. She is known for being a cast member of the reality television show; The Real Housewife of Salt Lake which airs on Bravo-TV.

She is an interior designer who works for herself, runs a business that sells furniture for the home, and has a happy family life. As per her husband’s career, he runs a business in France. He has been head and CEO of Kering since 2005 and president of Groupe Artémis since 2003. He turned the shopping giant PPR into the high-end fashion group Kering while he was in charge.

Francois Pinault started Pinault SA, which later became Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, then PPR, and finally Kering. Pinault is the son of Francois Pinault. It was 1985 when Pinault finished at the HEC School of Management. While he was in school, he helped start the CRM company Soft Computing with some other students and worked as an intern as a database software worker at Hewlett-Packard in Paris. After high school, he did his military service at the French Consulate in Los Angeles, where he was in charge of researching the fashion and new technology industries.

Pinault started working at PPR (then called Pinault Distribution) in 1987. In 1988, he was made manager of the buying department, and in 1989, he became head manager of France Bois Industries. Lepere became head manager of Pinault Distribution in 1990. In the 1990s, Pinault Distribution grew into PPR, a major foreign player in the retail industry. In 1993, Pinault was named president of CFAO, and in 1997, he was named CEO of Fnac. Pinault became vice president of PPR and head of Groupe Artémis. It became the parent company of PPR, in May 2003.

Dorothée Lepère Age

Lepère was born on March 10, 1965, in Charleston, Paris, France. She is 58 years old as of 2023, and she celebrates her birthday on the 10th of March every year.

Dorothée Lepère Height and Weight

Lepère stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches tall (1.65m) and weighs 62 kgs (136 lbs).

Dorothée Lepère Family

Lepère was born and raised in Paris, France to two loving parents. She likes to keep her personal life private hence she has neither disclosed the names of her parent nor those of her siblings.  However, this information will be updated when available.

Dorothée Lepère Husband

Lepère was married to François-Henri Pinault, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kering. The two tied the knot in 1996 and divorced in 2004. They were blessed with two children; a son Francois Pinault (born 1998) and a daughter named Mathilde (born 2001). Henri Pinault then went on to date Linda Evangelista, a supermodel from September 2005 to January 2006. He had a son from his relationship with Linda named Augustin James Evangelista (born October 2006). He is currently married to Salma Hayek, an actress.

Pinault became President and CEO of PPR in March 2005 and helped it grow into an international group that focuses on high-end fashion. He got rid of PPR’s most important retail assets, like Conforama, CFAO, Printemps, Fnac, and La Redoute, and merged PPR with the Gucci group. It has been a subsidiary of PPR since 1999. This put all of Gucci’s luxury brands, like Gucci, Yves Saint-Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Boucheron, Alexander McQueen, and Stella McCartney, under his direct control. He added more high-end brands to the group, like Girard-Perregaux, Brioni, Qeelin, Pomellato, Christopher Kane, Tomas Maier, and Ulysse Nardin. In June 2013, he changed the name of PPR to Kering. The new name comes from his Breton roots; in that language, “Ker” means “home” and sounds like “caring.”

Pinault made it clear that his group was committed to long-term growth. He started using the “environmental profit and loss” (EP&L) way of accounting in the early 2010s. This was done in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and was slowly applied to all of the group’s brands. Lepere started the Kering Foundation to fight for women’s rights in 2008. In 2015, he coordinated the Women in Motion program at the Cannes Film Festival to bring attention to issues affecting women in the film business.

In 2009, he paid for Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary Home. This documentary shows aerial shots of different places on Earth. Moreover, it talks about how people are upsetting the planet’s natural balance. The Corporate Knights Global 100 index named Kering the most sustainable textile, clothing, and luxury goods company in January 2018. Moreover, Pinault was asked by French President Emmanuel Macron to create the Fashion Pact at the G7 meeting in August 2019. Nevertheless, the Fashion Pact is an agreement signed by 56 fashion companies that promise to take specific steps to lower their impact on the environment.

More than half of PPR’s sales fell between 2003 and 2014, but the company made 40% more money. Luxury sales for the group went from 3 billion euros in 2005 to 10 billion euros in 2017. He stated his plan to beat Louis Vuitton with Gucci over time in 2018 when sales had grown 27% to 15.5 billion euros.

Pinault confirmed in 2018 that Kering was leaving the Sports & Lifestyle sector to focus only on the Luxury industry. Pinault has been head of Groupe Artémis (Kering’s parent company) since 2003. He also owns the golf course Chateau Latour, and the auction house Christie’s. Additionally, he owns the Ligue 1 football team Stade Rennais F.C. In 2015, Artémis also put money into the Compagnie du Ponant, which runs cruise ships.

Artémis is also in charge of the Pinault Collection. However, in 2016, Pinault started a project to fix up the Parisian Bourse de Commerce building and turn it into a modern art museum with the Pinault Collection name. Pinault opened the $100 million investment fund Red River West in 2017 to help Artémis’s investments in the tech industry. In 2019, he helped the Stade Rennais F.C. win its first Coupe de France since the Pinault family bought it in 1998. The Pinault family gave $113 million through Artémis to help fix up Notre-Dame de Paris after the fire in 2019.

Dorothée Lepère Net Worth

Lepère has an estimated net worth of about $10 Million – $20 Million which she has earned through her career as an interior design and television personality.

Dorothée Lepère Salary

Lepère earns an annual salary of about  $100,000-$500,000.

Real Housewife of Salt Lake

Lepère will be cast in the reality television show Real Housewife of Salt Lake. This show’s fourth season debuted on September 5, 2023. The show shows how women who live in or near Salt Lake City, Utah, handle their personal and work lives.

Moreover, season four of The Real Housewife of Salt Lake casts include; Ellie Binkley, Rena Haley, Annalise Glick, Mindy Noce, Kendra Shaw, Angie Katsanevas, and Monica Garcia.