The new season arrives in black, gold thread and heavy silk. A first walk through the pieces, the cloth they are cut from, and the hands that finished them.
Inside the Light Collection
Where the collection begins Every season starts in the atelier, with cloth and light. The house works from a single idea and lets the material answer back, so the first sketches are made against a bolt of silk rather than a mood board. What survives that conversation becomes the collection. Thread, by hand Each surface […]
How a jacket is embroidered
From the atelier The work begins quietly, at the cutting table, long before anything reaches a fitting. Cloth is chosen for how it holds light as much as for how it drapes, and every decision that follows answers to that first one. The detail that matters Seams are pressed open by hand, linings are set […]
Choosing between silk and crepe
From the atelier The work begins quietly, at the cutting table, long before anything reaches a fitting. Cloth is chosen for how it holds light as much as for how it drapes, and every decision that follows answers to that first one. The detail that matters Seams are pressed open by hand, linings are set […]
The atelier in August
From the atelier The work begins quietly, at the cutting table, long before anything reaches a fitting. Cloth is chosen for how it holds light as much as for how it drapes, and every decision that follows answers to that first one. The detail that matters Seams are pressed open by hand, linings are set […]
Notes on fitting
From the atelier The work begins quietly, at the cutting table, long before anything reaches a fitting. Cloth is chosen for how it holds light as much as for how it drapes, and every decision that follows answers to that first one. The detail that matters Seams are pressed open by hand, linings are set […]
Caring for beadwork
From the atelier The work begins quietly, at the cutting table, long before anything reaches a fitting. Cloth is chosen for how it holds light as much as for how it drapes, and every decision that follows answers to that first one. The detail that matters Seams are pressed open by hand, linings are set […]
A conversation with the artist
From the atelier The work begins quietly, at the cutting table, long before anything reaches a fitting. Cloth is chosen for how it holds light as much as for how it drapes, and every decision that follows answers to that first one. The detail that matters Seams are pressed open by hand, linings are set […]
The colour black, revisited
From the atelier The work begins quietly, at the cutting table, long before anything reaches a fitting. Cloth is chosen for how it holds light as much as for how it drapes, and every decision that follows answers to that first one. The detail that matters Seams are pressed open by hand, linings are set […]
What makes a piece last
From the atelier The work begins quietly, at the cutting table, long before anything reaches a fitting. Cloth is chosen for how it holds light as much as for how it drapes, and every decision that follows answers to that first one. The detail that matters Seams are pressed open by hand, linings are set […]