Portrait – He is the head of a communications consultancy and has just announced that he is the father of two children with his husband, stylist Simon Port-Jacquemus.
“Image is everything,” Simon Port-Jacquemus once said. A phrase that could become the maxim of his eponymous brand, launched in 2009 when he was just 19 years old, and based on a very strong presence on Instagram. Also in this social network, the most visual, the 34-year-old stylist shares his life. Photos of Grandma Liline, from her native south, and then, one fine day, a man who looks just right. like him. Like Jacquemus, he is tall, muscular, the tip of his nose often colored with a light tan, shaggy beard, and brown hair. His name is Marco Maestri. And this is the person who shares the creator’s life since 2018.
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A child of the south
Marco Maestri is a person in the shadows, whose presence on the Internet is less important than the presence of her husband. What we do know is that he, like his other half, is a child from the South, born in Var. His father, Michel Maestri, is the head of the Carqueiran Port Authority and was the subject of the article parisian 2015, where we also learned that his mother is named Kathy and is an educator. Marco also has a more famous brother, Yoan Maestri, a former professional rugby player for Stade Français who retired in 2023. It was with him that Marko founded his own consulting agency in 2019. About public relations and communications called “Yoann and Marco”. “. We owe this company the event “Les Fleurs” by Jacquemus or the temporary restaurant Citron, which the designer opened in Galeries Lafayette in 2019.
Love story under the sun
Their story is based on a twist of fate. In 2018, Simon Porte Jacquemus photographed Yoann Maestri by the sea to announce his first menswear show. “Ioan talked to him a lot about me. On our way back from Marseilles we [Jacquemus et lui, NDLR] We decided to have lunch together,” Marko told the magazine Vogue: . After the first meeting, the two men never left each other. Their relationship was made official in 2020 at the Jacquemus Fall-Winter 2019-2020 fashion show. The stylist also decides to dedicate part of the decor to his companion by recreating the florist’s booth, which he calls “Chez Marco, the florist.” They got engaged in June 2021.
Sensational wedding
On August 27, 2022, the couple made a lot of headlines when they decided to get married in the town hall of the small village of Charleval in Bouches-du-Rhône. The event, however fashionable and publicized, caused a sensation. The town’s 2,700 or so residents were in for a treat when they saw singer Dua Lipa, shoe designer Amina Mouaddi, Jeanne Damas and even rapper Damson and his partner Diddy-Stone. On April 22, 2024, the two men announced on Instagram that they were first-time fathers to twins named Mia and Sun. “My loving family,” Marco Maestri said on his personal account.
Source: Le Figaro
