Chapter I
The Hour
Vespertine takes its name from the things that wake at dusk. The house was founded on a single observation: that clothing behaves differently in fading light — that a seam reads as a shadow, and a shadow reads as a cut.
The Maison
A houseat dusk
Vespertine takes its name from the things that wake at dusk. The house was founded on a single observation: that clothing behaves differently in fading light — that a seam reads as a shadow, and a shadow reads as a cut.
- Founded
- Paris, 2014
- Atelier
- Rue Saint-Honoré
- Collections
- Two per year
- Production
- France & Northern Italy
“Stillness is not a testa garment can pass.”
Direction — Paris, 2014
Chapter II
The Hand
Every garment is drafted flat in the Rue Saint-Honoré atelier, then re-cut on the body. Nothing leaves the studio until it has been worn, walked in, and photographed in motion. Stillness is not a test a garment can pass.
Chapter III
The Material
Undyed linen, wool crepe, silk georgette, double-faced cashmere. We work a short list of fibres and we work them slowly. Two collections a year, and a resort study when the atelier has something to say.