Basile Khadiry and his HARPO jewels collection

English translation of the third interview we made with our fantastic customers : we present you here Basile Khadiry's incredible HARPO jewelry collection!

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Hello Basile, can you introduce yourself?

My name is Basile and I'm the co-creator of BEIGE Habilleur.

It is a boutique that first existed online and now has a beautiful sign on rue Bonaparte in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. BEIGE is anti-fashion. We love timeless beauty. Buying less to buy better was BEIGE's baseline six years ago, so before everyone was talking about it, we were already there.

Great :-), can you tell us more about your shop? Why did you create BEIGE Habilleur?

We created this brand because we had trouble finding what we were looking for in terms of style and quality in France. You had to buy a ticket to go to Japan, the United States or London. We wanted to have the brands we loved right here in Paris, in France.

We offer quality menswear from brands that are sometimes hundreds of years old, that keep their production facilities, that work as a family from generation to generation... In the end, we are not too far from the HARPO model!

From head to toe, we dress men in what we call modern classics. The aim isn't to dress up like in the 30s or 40s, but a nice tweed jacket in the right weight, color and pattern can be extremely 2025 too.

We also make sneakers, glasses... and belts with you!

Ah, tell us more about this collaboration.

HARPO for Beige was drop launch: the idea was to offer at BEIGE some HARPO belt buckles. More specifically, Zuni ranger buckles, i.e. 4-element buckles, inlaid with genuine stones and sterling silver. We just showcased them, without necessarily having a plan in mind. The first drop went out in 24 hours, and so did the second. For the third drop, we gave ourselves a little more time so that the Zuni artists could produce a few more pieces, while of course remaining very limited since that's the game with these exceptional jewels found at HARPO... but likewise in a very short space of time, everything sold out.

I really like these belt buckles, so I'm delighted that BEIGE customers feel the same way.

Tell us more about what you like personally. You dress a lot of men, but what is your style?

I like beauty in everything. Anything can be pretty as long as it's done in the best way possible. I think there can be interesting things everywhere and that's exactly what we're looking for at BEIGE. I like things that are full of history and culture.

And how did you come to acquire HARPO jewelry?

Well, to be perfectly honest, I didn't know Harpo at all before I met Dorothée (the manager). And to be true, at first I wasn't even interested. I thought, “Well, jewelry for Indians and cowboys” - a bit of a bullshit, basic cliché that you may have come across a thousand times, and which must be extremely vexing. Without telling Dorothée, I was more on that team. And then, in fact, as I came and went at HARPO, I realized that this store was extraordinary: all those works, those artists, those tribes... it was a never ending discovery. I realized that it was everything I loved in so many other things: bottomless pit of knowledge and unique pieces, of well-made, beautiful things... Well, it's fantastic, it's absolutely fantastic!

And when you realized this, what was the first piece of jewelry you bought?

I think it was six or seven years ago, when I first fell in love: I let myself be guided towards a ring with a turquoise sort of color-cut diagonally, with one half of the turquoise blue and the other half green.

And what was your latest piece of jewelry?

The latest piece I bought is this beautiful Hopi pendant, in sterling silver, depicting a traditional Pueblo village against a starry sky with fine gold tips. I love it, I think it's sublime.

It's interesting because you have a fine collection of HARPO jewelry and your pieces are representative of the skills of the three tribes: Hopi overlay, as on this pendant you mentioned, Navajo jewelry as with your ring set with a turquoise stone, and you have beautiful Zuni jewelry made in inlay.

Yes, in fact, with every purchase I let myself be guided. I can't really explain why I choose this or that piece of jewelry. The piece simply spoke to me.

For example, with the Zuni Toons, these Looney Toons characters made in real stone and silver by the Zuni, it spoke to me because I thought it was fabulous to reproduce characters from popular American culture but made by Native Zuni with their know-how, their culture, their history, I find that quite interesting!

I also really like the jewelry I have from HARPO because if you don't know it, you can't tell where it comes from. For example, the Hopi pendant we talked about earlier, it's still enigmatic, it gets your imagination going. It does that for me, for example, with Matthew Jack's micro inlay work: I think his work could come from another planet, I think it's extraordinary!

In fact, I would really like to buy one of his bracelets, but unfortunately there haven't been any in my size yet, so I'm waiting... and in the meantime I'm always finding other jewelry. It's all part of the experience: you come, you're surprised, you fall in love: even if you come in the morning and come back in the afternoon, you'll discover things that didn't catch your eye a few hours earlier.

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There is such a profusion of beautiful things, that the same jewel taken off its tray, put in another context, worn on someone, changes everything. And that's when you say to yourself “oh, it is made for me!”.

Now that you know the HARPO boutique so well, if you had to introduce it to someone who didn't, what would you say?

I would say it's a wonderful world, with wonderful objects and wonderful people. That's the heart of it, it's the best of the best, and you know it once you've set foot here. What is interesting here is the profusion of things, the profusion of BEAUTIFUL things, the top-notch service... Everything is quite remarkable! The fact that it's a family-run business also makes the experience quite special. In fact, I think the experience is just as interesting as the acquisition. You are as happy to come to HARPO as you are to reopen your jewelry drawer at home and look at the pieces in your house and wear them.