About
Stardust Brands is a multi-faceted creative consultancy firm, a go-to partner for some of the world's luxury leaders for the past 25 years. We connect brands with global icons and create culture-defining campaigns.
Our unique approach to brand direction and multidisciplinary suite of services - ranging from budget management to creative direction - result in some of the most recognisable multimedia content and brand collaborations worldwide.
Victoria Brynner
Founder of Stardust Brands
Image: Francois Dischinger
Founder and president of Stardust Brands, Victoria Brynner has an innate ability to identify connections that lead to highly influential operations that push the boundaries in every aspect. Over the last 25 years, Victoria has perfected a multi-faceted suite of services that include celebrity casting, consultancy, executive production and talent management. Placing Johnny Depp as the face of Dior ‘Sauvage’, the acclaimed record-breaking fragrance campaign, is one of Victoria’s most notable feats of recent years.
She led the executive production of Lady Gaga’s ‘Fame’ campaign, which resulted as one of the biggest fragrance launches in Coty’s history; as well as spearheading the casting and of Louis Vuitton’s ‘Art of Travel’ campaign, securing an impossible cast: Mikhail Gorbachev, Catherine Deneuve, Andre Aggasi and Steffi Graf. To this day, the campaign is referenced as one that surpassed the known standard of celebrity casting. Other regular collaborating partners include Christian Dior, Versace, Lancome and Chanel.
Her ability to create some of the most timeless and culturally-defining campaigns in the modern luxury world’s history, largely stem from a deep-rooted understanding of both Hollywood and fashion. Born in Switzerland to a Russian father, the renown actor Yul Brynner and Chilean mother, Doris Brynner - a fixture in the fashion industry - Victoria had creativity engrained in her from early on.
She began her career as a philanthropist in Paris for the news agency Gamma and then moved to Los Angeles to take on the role of U.S. editor for the Italian magazines Moda and King, before founding Stardust Brands.
A love of photography and capturing moments in time has always fuelled her work. Over the years, Victoria
Above left: Chanel LA;
Below: Victoria with father, Yul Brynner
partnered with some of the most famous photographers in the world from Steven Klein, to Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel and Karl Lagerfeld. She also published the photography book “Yul Brynner: A Photographic Journey”, paying homage to her father and the love of photography they shared.
Today, Victoria lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. She continues to consult leading luxury brands and create agenda-setting campaigns on a multimedia front.
As an ambassador to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS foundation, she carries on the legacy of her godmother to help keep the issue of HIV/AIDS top-of-mind to the public.
Jennifer Valente
Executive Producer · Account Director
Jennifer Valente joined Stardust Brands over a decade ago, after starting her career in the world of film and advertising as a director and camera assistant. Since joining Stardust, Jennifer has channeled her love of photography by working with some of the fashion industry's most celebrated photographers – including Mario Sorrenti, Patrick Demarchelier and Steven Meisel to name a few – and leading the executive production of a variety of ad campaigns and commercial projects.
Her work involves collating the best creative and production teams and ensuring that the artistic vision of a photographer or brand partner is executed to perfection across publications, billboards and different corners of the digital landscape. She is especially adept to travel projects and her work at Stardust has taken her around the world. One of her biggest career highlights has been an assignment for Disney in Puerto Rico, where she worked alongside Patrick Demarchalier photographing the cast of the Pirates of the Caribbean. "To experience the level of talent from each person, all gathered on one island, and know that I was a part of it, always reminds me why I am a producer," says Valente.
Jennifer Valente
Executive Producer · Account Director
