Dressing for the Opéra
Long gloves, a coat wide enough for the skirt and a hemline that clears the stair: a stylist’s notes for a night at the opera.
Chroniques
The Journal
Stories of cloth, craft and the evenings our clients wear them to.
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A Gown in Four Hundred Hours
From the first toile to the last hand-sewn hook: the slow life of a single Nocturne evening gown inside the atelier on Rue des Lanternes.
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By Candlelight
Why we fit every gown by candlelight before it leaves the salon — and what warm light reveals that daylight hides.
Caring for Silk and Velvet
Steam, never iron. Hang in cotton, never plastic. The atelier’s rules for keeping evening cloth beautiful for decades.
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