Notes fromthe atelier.

Written between fittings, usually by Anouk, occasionally by whoever is angriest about polyester that week.

Why the entire Aube collection was dyed against a photograph of the sky at 04:58, and what silk does that a screen never will.

Acid-free tissue, a cool wall, and one strict rule about plastic. The storage advice we print and tie to every delivery box.

Clients sometimes ask to skip it. Here is the seam-by-seam case for why the answer is a polite, absolute no.

On keeping the ready-to-wear line small when every business instinct says otherwise — and the spreadsheet that almost won.

You will be offered coffee, asked strange questions about how you sit, and shown cloth you are allowed to touch. That's the whole ritual.

Machine-dyed cloth matches perfectly and says nothing. Hand-dyed cloth disagrees with itself — which is exactly why it reads as alive.

Rather talk than read?