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 is embroidered by hand. A single jacket front can hold several weeks of work, and no two panels are ever identical, because the hand that places a sequin is not a machine. That is the point. The small irregularities are the signature.

Choosing the cloth

Silk, wool crepe and cotton tweed are sourced in small quantities, most of them dyed to order. The house does not hold large stock, so a piece that sells out rarely returns in the same cloth.

Fittings and the final silhouette

Every style is fitted on a live model, then again on the stand. The shoulder is set first, the sleeve last. Nothing leaves the atelier until it reads correctly in motion, not only on the hanger.

A piece should look finished from the inside. If the lining is careless, the embroidery is decoration and nothing more.

Shanzi, on construction

Caring for a hand embroidered piece

Hand embroidery does not tolerate a washing machine. Store the piece flat or on a padded hanger, keep it away from direct sun, and bring it to a specialist cleaner who has handled beadwork before. Full instructions are in Care and Guarantee.