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Tout sur le Chapeau
La deuxième édition des Rencontres nationale des modistes & des métiers du sur mesure aura lieu du 27 au 29 avril à la Baule. L’évènement a le mérite de vouloir de rassembler l’ensemble des passionnés du chapeau, particuliers et professionnels, autour de ses métiers du sur-mesure. Par chance, nous avons été contactés pour diffuser notre … Continue reading “Tout sur le Chapeau”
Tout sur le Chapeau
La deuxième édition des Rencontres nationale des modistes & des métiers du sur mesure aura lieu du 27 au 29 avril à la Baule. L’évènement a le mérite de vouloir de rassembler l’ensemble des passionnés du chapeau, particuliers et professionnels, autour de ses métiers du sur-mesure. Par chance, nous avons été contactés pour diffuser notre … Continue reading “Tout sur le Chapeau”
Bold Upcycling
For the annual art issue of Crash magazine, winter 2017-2018, I wrote an article on the upcoming collaboration between Viktor & Rolf and Zalando, that I am sharing on the Daily Couture. The collaboration is one of the many emerging collaborations illustrating that the fashion industry leaders are beginning to give their manufacturing productions a … Continue reading “Bold Upcycling”
Projection#2
Une bonne nouvelle à partager sur The Daily Couture : la Biennale Emergences dédiée aux métiers d’art et du design, et qui ouvrera ses porte demain jusqu’au 16 octobre, à Pantin, inclut dans sa programmation la projection de mon court-métrage documentaire « Les artisans du rêve » récompensé du Prix Patrimoine au Festival International du Film sur … Continue reading “Projection#2”
Heritage Award
That is very good news, which I wanted to share with you on The Daily Couture blog, my short documentary fashion film, The Dream artisans, received the Heritage Award at the International Film Festival on Fine Crafts in France. I feel very grateful to have been surrounded by a great team to make the pilot. … Continue reading “Heritage Award”
Expo Double Je
L’exposition Double Je, Artisans d’art et artistes se tient en ce moment au Palais de Tokyo jusqu’au 16 mai 2016. Un pari audacieux du commissaire d’exposition, Jean de Loisy : inscrire les métiers d’art dans la vie quotidienne sans omettre de rendre compte de leurs complexités et singularités inhérentes. Une réussite. Et un sujet incontournable … Continue reading “Expo Double Je”
My Film in Competition!
Good news to share on The Daily Couture: my short documentary film is part of the Official Selection at the International Film Festival about Master Craftsmanship taking place in France on April 7-10. The film also competes for the “Prix des Ecoles” (Prize awarded by students). I am particularly happy about it as the aim … Continue reading “My Film in Competition!”
With Christian Boltanski
The latest Art issue of Crash #74 is out with my interview with Christian Boltanski in it. The memory of meeting with the artist remains live as essential issues about life and death have been passionately tackled by his art in a coherent and persistent way for more than forty years. Whether we are moved … Continue reading “With Christian Boltanski”
Parmigiani-Palais Royal
L’inauguration officielle du « Studio Parmigiani Fleurier », sa toute première boutique parisienne au 125-126 Galerie de Valois dévoilait un élégant « cabinet de travail » façonné sur mesure. L’intimité avec la matière dans ses moindres détails, de la fabrication de la pièce horlogère à celle du mobilier du « Studio », insuffle à son univers de la Haute Horlogerie … Continue reading “Parmigiani-Palais Royal”
(3) Journey into Couture 2015
Embracing aging & couture: “the reality of what Haute Couture means today” was Alexis Mabille’s statement the Daily Couture shares with this third part on the Paris Couture Week fall winter 2015-2016. The haute couture overwhelming ethereal pink carpet dresses, each of them tailor-made for the couturier’s 15 muses, were gathered in the glamorous Opera … Continue reading “(3) Journey into Couture 2015”
(2)Journey into Couture FW 2015
The Daily Couture’s second part on Fall Winter 2015-2016 couture collections in Paris presents Stéphane Rolland’s promising intimate couture experience I was eagerly looking forward to attending. The very chic 10 Avenue George V had been heralded as the venue of the couture show. The Salon Haute Couture of the couturier would be the place, … Continue reading “(2)Journey into Couture FW 2015”
(1) Journey into Couture 2015
No better than Couture Weeks to reveal the art craftsmanship of fashion to the world and make one’s mission statement spread to the fashion scene like Dice Kayek did it : let’s keep on living with artisanal heartbeat and tailoring in today’s hurried world and fast fashion. We were being told by the Paris-based Franco-Turkish … Continue reading “(1) Journey into Couture 2015”
Portugal Fashion
Portugal Fashion Spring Summer 2015 ─ The particular Portuguese fashion week made to promote the country’s image is the topic of the Daily Couture’s latest contribution to the Huffington Post France here. For the English version of the Daily Couture, sharing about the event I really enjoyed and found interesting is what I want to … Continue reading “Portugal Fashion”
Dice Kayek Couture A/H 15
2014 : une année marquante pour Dice Kayek, la marque franco-turque, créée en 1992, par deux sœurs, Ece Ege, directrice de la création, et Ayşe Ege, manager de l’entreprise. Cette année, Dice Kayek s’est vue décernée le Jameel Prize 3 du Victoria & Albert Museum, récompensant des œuvres d’art et de design contemporaines inspirées de … Continue reading “Dice Kayek Couture A/H 15”
The Other Couture Show
─ Paris, July 2014, Haute Couture Week. Stéphane Rolland Haute Couture Autumn Winter Hiver 2014 – 2015, Cinema Elysées Biarritz. To which extent can a designer express his creativity within the media coverage of fashion? “At one point I felt I was acting like a robot, I found myself of needing to go and see … Continue reading “The Other Couture Show”
Responsible Fashion
The annual Copenhagen Fashion Summit, now in its third year, has become one of the must-go events for fashion leaders and other agents of change in the fashion industry to focus on a crucial topic of urgent importance: solutions for sustainable fashion. Created by the forward-thinking Scandinavian countries and supported by the Nordic Fashion Association … Continue reading “Responsible Fashion”
Visite Atelier Couture
Pour commencer une semaine autrement…par une parenthèse enchantée dans la vie d’un atelier de couture d’exception ! Et pourquoi pas, car les vacances scolaires peuvent signifier pour certains le moment venu pour s’immerger dans ce qui sort de l’ordinaire, dans l’univers de la haute couture… Êtes-vous disponible le 28 avril après-midi? Êtes-vous passionné par l’univers de … Continue reading “Visite Atelier Couture”
Maxi/Miniartextil 2014
The not-to-be-missed international contemporary art event, Miniartextil, embracing textile as the artist’s means of expression, is now showcasing in Montrouge, the suburban city of Paris which started its partnership with the event ten years ago. For the Daily Couture, I attended to its opening fresh on the heels of the beginning of last Paris Fashion … Continue reading “Maxi/Miniartextil 2014”
Crafted Fashion Style
What about sharing with you posts about emerging designers and brands that somehow address the issues of master craftsmanship the Daily Couture is so interested in? Designers are the visionaries, the dream makers master craftsmen do need to collaborate with: to have the practice of their own master craftsmanship twisted, challenged and revisited by designers … Continue reading “Crafted Fashion Style”
The Haute Couture Weave
For the Daily Couture, this video features beautiful eye-catching artisanal gestures filled with a lovely and touching poetry flavor making the practice of master craftsmanship of Haute Couture so awesome and unique. Maity Tanguy’s love for weaving was what inspired this clip: how dedicated she is to her artisanal art fueling the inspiration of fashion … Continue reading “The Haute Couture Weave”
Article in Crash#65
With the publication of the latest sociological study by Gilles Lipovetsky, L’Esthétisation du monde, vivre à l’âge du capitalisme artiste, on artistic capitalism, a meeting between the author and Frank Perrin, artist and creative director of Crash magazine, was made possible for the Crash magazine issue #65. Both of them share the same obsession with … Continue reading “Article in Crash#65”
Haute Couture Tour
As fashion’s elite will gather in Paris next week for the Fall Winter 2013 – 2014 Haute Couture week, the Daily Couture is paying homage to the most talented master craftsmen of Haute Couture… Save the date: on July 3rd, The Daily Couture organizes a highly special visit to a master craftsman’s atelier in Paris! … Continue reading “Haute Couture Tour”
Atelier Lesage
For Crash magazine #64, I interviewed Hubert Barrere, the art director of renowned haute couture embroidery house Lesage, at the head of the artisanal house after François Lesage died in 2012. The handmade embroidery atelier belongs to Paraffection, the Chanel’s subsidiary division founded in order to preserve artisan workshops whose exceptional know-how is essential to … Continue reading “Atelier Lesage”
Mode Made in France
Qu’en est-il de la mode “made in France” du point de vue de ses fabricants en ces temps d’engouement pour le “made in France”? Le 10 et 11 avril 2013 se tenait la 10ème édition du Salon Made in France de la Haute Façon française où se rassemblaient les professionnels de la mode, ses fabricants … Continue reading “Mode Made in France”
Contribution au Crash#63
Parmi les articles rédigés, ces trois sujets à lire sur des maisons de mode reconnues pour leur savoir-faire d’exception perpétué par des artisans d’art : le maroquinier Delvaux, le joaillier Mellerio dits Meller et le gantier Fabre. A l’occasion de la publication du dernier numéro du magazine CRASH #63 avec l’actrice Sarah Gadon en couverture, … Continue reading “Contribution au Crash#63”
The Daily Couture Video
Dear Daily Couture Readers, Our first video about our Private Haute Couture Tours in Paris is out! The idea was to put forward the Daily Couture’s vision of Haute Couture and master crafstmanship and reveal some of the fashion making backstage we focus on for our Private Haute Couture and Sur-Mesure Tours in Paris. The … Continue reading “The Daily Couture Video”
Graduate Fashion Week
Alongside greats like Raf Simons for Dior haute couture and Martin Margiela’s artisanal line, graduates of the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) counted themselves among the highlights of the 2012/2013 Autumn/Winter haute couture week in Paris The Daily Couture looked forward to bringing to light. Fashion & Sense Fashion Show 2012 at the … Continue reading “Graduate Fashion Week”
Shang Xia’s project
Master craftsmanship revisited by Shang Xia, recognized as “the Chinese Hermès” since it was created by Hermès in 2009. Below is my interview with Jiang Qiong Er, artistic director, designer and CEO of the house. A forward thinking vision of master craftsmanship that is to be discovered below : Interview with Jiang Qiong Er, Shang … Continue reading “Shang Xia’s project”
Made in Mode
A bientôt, aux Galeries Lafayette ! En tant que fondatrice de The Daily Couture et rédactrice spécialisée dans les métiers d’art, je contribuerai à l’évènement “Made in Mode” célébrant la mode made in France aux Galeries Lafayette, organisé dans le cadre des Journées Européennes des Métiers d’Art les 30, 31 mars et 1er avril, le … Continue reading “Made in Mode”
Haute Couture Visit !
The daily couture offers one visit to a haute couture workshop in Paris… Well, this one will be exactly like the Haute Couture private tours we usually organize for our clients, except that it will be recorded by a French TV. Why not offering some of our passionate readers for fashion and luxury the unique … Continue reading “Haute Couture Visit !”
HuffPost & Nous
The Daily Couture dans la toute première édition du Huffington Post français dirigée par Anne Sinclair. En ligne dès le 23 janvier 2012. Deux de nos billets seront repris pour la première version française du média-web dont l’édition mère anglophone compte quelques 37 millions de visiteurs uniques par mois…Le Monde est partenaire du Huffington Post … Continue reading “HuffPost & Nous”
Emerging Luxury Brands
Emerging brands in the luxury industry in France : How will their sustainability be assured? The Club ESSEC Luxe united its members around a big round table this December in Paris. This needed action was initiated by Claire Colas, manager of Club ESSEC Luxe. Reaching almost 100 people, the group did some assessment and … Continue reading “Emerging Luxury Brands”
RIP Mr. F. Lesage
Dear Everyone : As we learned the sad news about the death of Mr. François Lesage, master embroiderer of Haute Couture in Paris, on 1st December 2011, The Daily Couture wants to pay homage to him. He probably was the best known master craftsman of Haute Couture in Paris and represented the excellence of master … Continue reading “RIP Mr. F. Lesage”
Club Essec Luxe
On December 1st 2011, in Paris, a round table organized by Club ESSEC Luxe and entitled : « Emerging Brands of luxury: what are the solutions to make them lifelong brands ? » will take place in the one the greatest business schools of Paris, the city where some of the world’s most desirable luxury … Continue reading “Club Essec Luxe”
Creator for a Day
6 fashion bloggers invited to create the shoe of their dreams? The Daily Couture took a particular notice to this initiative seeing as it way headed by Six London, a design studio creating shoes for fashion brands. With Susie Lau- interested in material, details, fashion, and artisanship- in on the adventure, The Daily Couture couldn’t … Continue reading “Creator for a Day”
Journées du Patrimoine
A l’occasion des Journées du Patrimoine ce samedi 17 et dimanche 18 septembre 2011, The Daily Couture retient ces immersions dans l’histoire et le savoir-faire de la couture française parmi les nombreuses visites proposées. Puisqu’il s’agit de patrimoine aujourd’hui, que diriez-vous d’un voyage dans le temps grâce à cette vidéo assez rigolote ? Avec une … Continue reading “Journées du Patrimoine”
Pleated Couture
Paris haute couture fashion week, A/W 11-12 ended. We enjoyed Xuan-Thu Nguyen’s great pleated couture. By posting the following runway shots, we pay homage to the know-how of pleating materials like organza and silk. The collection uses neutral colors like taupe, black or midnight blue constrasting with sudden bright colors, echoing the colorful birds’masks to … Continue reading “Pleated Couture”
Rendez-vous Couture
What about getting into the heart of Paris know-how in couture ?! Experience the world of Parisian artisans and their timeless savoir-faire at the heart of French luxury! For you, we organize the I Love Paris Savoir-Faire bespoke tours with your exclusive encounters with artisans working for the big names of haute couture. Visits to … Continue reading “Rendez-vous Couture”
Certified Frenchness
A label? Tell me more! The official Made in France label has come to light: now, products with “Origine France Garantie” (“French Origin Guaranteed”) written on them will confirm a true Made in France item. During the official launching of the Made in France label held on May 19th at the French Assembly, it was explained … Continue reading “Certified Frenchness”
Signature Style
One dress only — one that did count as a fashion statement in the history of fashion is a terrific achievement for one designer, even if pulling it off only once, Olivier Saillard insists as the curator of « Histoire idéale de la mode contemporaine », volume II, dedicated to the 90’s and 2000’s,at the Arts Décoratifs … Continue reading “Signature Style”
Animal Welfare
Whether the animal has had a good life is at the heart of the matter in the making of first grade skins to be used in fashion and design, once we have eaten animal meat. With Vianney, a skinner and one of our craftsmen partners, specialized in supplying cattle and lambskin leather to the great … Continue reading “Animal Welfare”
Anne, Textile Finisher
Known by the big fashion names for her mastery in handmade fabric design, which she mainly uses in haute couture creations and home design, Anne, also one of our I Love Paris Savoir Faire craftsmen partners, has just completed the interior design of a four-star Paris hotel, The Belle Juliette, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Rooms, photo : … Continue reading “Anne, Textile Finisher”
Couture Mavericks
Is the issue of short-lived life of haute couture dresses being addressed by designers at last? Would it simply be a matter of being sensible, smart and make the most of unaffordable haute couture dresses made of the finest materials, crafted by the hands of top haute couture artisans? Isn’t it funny that it should … Continue reading “Couture Mavericks”