Albane Cleret Celebrates 20 Years of Ruling the Cannes Social Scene

“I’m proud that I’ve managed to hang in there for 20 years, having started from nothing. In hindsight I have to admit I’m a little surprised by this success,” Cleret told WWD in an interview at the bar of hotel La Réserve in Paris.

In addition to jockeying for the hottest film after parties, she represents a roster of French actors including Benoît Magimel, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette and Isabelle Adjani. The latter will star in “Mascarade,” a riff on the scam comedy genre filmed in nearby Nice, which is screening out of competition in Cannes.

“You have to secure financing for this pharaonic structure, which is stressful, but also enjoyable — no one’s forcing me to do it. But once you’ve created the setting, the cake has to rise, so you need the content, and the content is having the best movies, or beautiful fashion dinners. It’s about doing my job as an event planner, with my signature French touch,” she said.

Her venue overlooking the Boulevard de la Croisette has been through different incarnations, starting out as Le Jimmy’z and variously known as Heaven’s Floor by Albane and Club Costes by Albane — though one thing that’s been constant is the strict door policy. Above all, she wants her VIP guests to feel right at home.

But she conceded that one of her proudest achievements was the after party for 600 people she hosted with Sony International for Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” in 2019, which drew the film’s starsCleret hung on to the “thank you” email the studio sent her afterward. “Sometimes I look at it when I’m feeling down in the dumps,” she said.Just don’t call her the queen of nightlife. “I’m more of a daytime person,” she insisted.

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