French excellence in fashion

probably dates back to the 17th century to

the time of louis xiv it was in the 19th that
the parade is b French excellence in fashion

orn the concept of collection


with frédéric force

it was not until the 1880s that

may the term haute couture be

definitively established

so today we have a lot of

luck we are in the apartment

a legend of haute couture

that of gabrielle chanel

she will create her house in 1909 but will

settle here rue cambon in paris in

from 1910

this is where she received her most

close collaborators his models

but also and above all its craftsmen

who worked for and with her

we will now go to the

meeting of these men and women

that bring its collections to life

real treasures of haute couture

french for you we pushed

the doors of the biggest houses

chanel of course but also christian

dior schiaparelli yves saint laurent

among others it is in the workshops of

these houses that we encountered

virtuosos of haute couture

time for a collection we have

lived with feather embroiderers

bootmaker place the most experienced

all passionate who made us

share their know-how

i think someone watching from

near the grain store feels this emotion

laborie it is the emotion to dry the

lesage embroiderer than little hands

are active on a unique piece that has

required more than 800 hours of work

at the featherweight lemari the craftsmen

create before our eyes a dress at 12500

feather sewn one by one by hand for

that in chanel sewing workshops

the first tell us their secrets

Manufacturing

we also followed the stylists

in their creative process

they draw their inspiration from a

unique heritage always the same

pleasure

yeah it's superb

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it must be the circus collection no

we went in search of

most daring pieces and

of the biggest houses

chanel concrete embroidery or the

schiaparelli porcelain dress finally

Yves Saint Laurent houses and

christian dior opened their

reserves to discover the pieces

mythical people who made the reputation of

these great designers and for the

first time the chanel house has

allowed a camera filmed in his

incredible sanctuary some of

its six thousand treasures treasures which

for over a century have been betting and

from france the center of the world

somewhere we are still

dream creators because there are

people who go with projects

search we arrive then given

satisfaction

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the detainee

all

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July 2016 the haute couture collection

fall winter invested the capital of

fashion

for a week paris hosts a

thirty to parade on the podiums of

exceptional outfits imagined by

designers but embroidered high school cut by

craftsmen of excellence who

work in the shadows of large

houses

that day a great karl stylist

lagerfeld pays tribute to his

small hands of crafts to

through the decor of the transformed parade

in workshops but also through

first four who runs the

seamstresses of the house chanel

it was with her that he chose this

times to share the applause

public

I wanted the first and the

workers see their collections of

net and in addition as it was very close

public

I found it gave 0 smooth enough

interesting no it's fun that

people see how great luxury and

manufactures that these facts like there are 100

years

and among the first four layouts

before cécile 15 years of house 40 years of

craft that this tribute to upset the

formula is a job that should

passionate perseverance they will put in

before all these girls who are

the Breton people of the world

of the world across through two dummies

and even bawdy they all went

before and that is putting forward all

these crafts is to recognize that

without them haute couture would not have

there was evidence for bruno pavlovsky

chanel fashion activities president

they have this ability to offer to

bounce back to interpret the requests that

are made

sometimes it's like niches enough

specific ins and this is a small

part 2 but this little part has

added to another small part do

that the object the dress becomes quite

Magic

so yes today there is no

these high fashion crafts don't

could suffer

and especially without embroidery the house

dior addresses the vermont workshop located

in old paris faubourg

fishwife

six days earlier the whole workshop

still activate on the embroidery of a

Basque for a pantsuit of the

fall winter collection of the house

dior

we have to give back practically all

today tomorrow and after tomorrow