Womenswear · Paris · Since 2017
Womenswear from a Paris atelier, made in measured runs. The archive is the design language; the next season is its translation.
On constraint
The coat is cut from a single length of melton, which limits the shape to what the cloth will accept.
This is a constraint we have chosen.
The coat is not flattering in the way a darted bodice is flattering; it is flattering in the way a hand-written letter is more flattering than a form email.
The catalogue
A small line, considered.
Four practices, kept deliberately small. The line is what the studio can finish well in a year — sized 36 to 44, made twice.
From the studio
Notes from the season in measured motion.
Manifesto
Considered.
We make fewer things, slower. The studio is small — four people, no juniors, no offshore. Each season pulls one piece from the archive and re-cuts it for the present moment; the rest of the work is the year's signature pieces, made twice.
A season, made
How a season is made
From archive to atelier to garment, in the time the cloth requires.
Archive reading
January: the year's archive piece is chosen by the studio, in conversation with the season's cloth.
Pattern revision
February — March: proportions are revised on the bench. The original sits beside the working draft.
First fittings
April: six fittings per piece, on six bodies. Each note is logged in the workbook beside the piece.
Studio runs
May — September: the season is sewn in measured runs. Sized 36 to 44.
Begin
Speak with the atelier.
The studio replies within two working days. An appointment is not required for the Saturday hours, but is for the rest of the week.