VIP ROOM SAINT-TROPEZ

The story of the iconic resort’s most famous nightclub and the beautiful people who flock there...

- LOUISE FAUVELLE

Rihanna, dressed in a silvery top with a white pencil skirt, poses next to Jean-Roch Pedri, who is wearing a black T-shirt with a roaring-dog print. He founded the VIP Room in Saint-Tropez in 1997, and since then he’s been photographed with numerous celebrities. They have all made a summer pilgrimage to the jet set destination, club-hopping to flashing neon lights and the beats of aspiring DJs, surrounded by icy cold buckets of the finest French champagne.

The long list of guests includes pretty much every major fashion designer, as well as actors, models, singers and influencers such as Paris Hilton, Jared Leto, Cara Delevingne and Jay-Z. After all of France’s nightclubs were forced to close in the spring of 2020 due to the pandemic, the French government finally decided the doors were allowed to reopen in July. For Jean-Roch, who had been pleading for a rapid reopening of the country’s nightclubs, the decision was a great relief.