Couture designer Loris Diran was born in France and grew up on Manhattan’s tony Upper West Side, where he attended New York’s High School of Performing Arts before getting a fine arts degree from NYU. Today he focuses on sleek, fashionable, glamorous and one-of-a-kind designs that have been worn by a host of A-list men and women, including Beyoncé Knowles, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ricky Martin.