The Craftmanship of Haute Couture ... The details and how they do it.

[MyNameIs]

Thoroughly enjoyed those videos. You really start to appreciate those pieces more after seeing the work that goes into making them. Those Chanel collections suddenly look beautiful to me.

 

[reesewu]

I might be dumb but I am really confused tbh. For the Givenchy dress that needed 8 months of beading, did Riccardo really have to begin working on the collection 1 year before the presentation?

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

^ the pearls, not the dress

In my opinion Riccardo Tisci is the best couturier alive...also the prices are very high, over $1 for some pieces.

* $1 million


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[GIVENCHYlover]

Givenchy Fall 2011 Couture - 300m of fabric for those paillettes

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For several seasons now Riccardo Tisci has reverted to showing his haute couture pieces in the static presentations that he first explored at the beginning of his tenure at Givenchy. And thank goodness he does, because how else to admire the nuances of construction and embellishment that make his exquisite creations such tour de force examples of couture that breaks boundaries while drawing on the great techniques of the past? Take this angelic creation: hand-cut mille-feuille discs of silk tulle sewn in artful formation over a diaphanous dress to suggest a benign reptile or a stork’s furling wings. Even the zip fastener is finished with a handcrafted baroque toggle.

vogue, footluxe

 

[Nomar]

Givenchy does some of the most amazing couture, I'm so sad they have stopped....sigh
BTW I'm loving this thread already, I find the craftsmanship aspect of fashion so fascinating.

 

[Nomar]

Yiqing Yin (HC) Spring Summer 2014 - approximately 500km of thread used to create this dress

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[Nomar]

Yiqing Yin (HC) Spring Summer 2014 - approximately 500km of thread used to create this dress

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[Nomar]

Basically Haute Couture - Alexander McQueen Fall 2013, 10 looks with each piece taking two weeks to make





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[GIVENCHYlover]

GIVENCHY Summer 2011 Couture : 2000 hours of cutting + 4000 hours of sewing
166 days + 332 days (1 day = 12 working hours)


Maybe only 200+400 hours? Probably that man is idiot.

fashionlover

 

[Moofins]

this thread is a goldmine. I am really appreciating collections I didn't necessarily understand before at a new level.

 

[Chanelcouture09]

For Fall Winter 2013 Chanel focused hugely on their new acquisition Gérard Lognon (which now sits with Lesage, Lemarie and Massaro) -

 

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[madzedre]

Eyebrows speacillly embroidered by the house of Lesage for Chanel

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[madzedre]

Chanel Haute Couture gown being embroidered

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[Kite]

GIVENCHY Summer 2011 Couture : 2000 hours of cutting + 4000 hours of sewing
166 days + 332 days (1 day = 12 working hours)


Maybe only 200+400 hours? Probably that man is idiot.

you have more than one person working on the dress..they count the accumulative man hours it takes, so 10 seamstresses, 200 hours cutting each, thats 2000 hours together. Which means the dress took just over a month and a half to make. Which is normal.

Fury is most certainly not an idiot.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

Does anyone know how many seamstresses and artisans Chanel employs? The amount of work per look in each show is astonishing.

 

[squilliam]

Three things:

there are two atelier that do embroidery it seems, Lesage and Hurel. Does anyone know if there's a difference between them and why one may be chosen over the other for a certain project? Also, why don't some of these larger maisons have their own in house embroiderers and pleat makers, how come they send off to specialists? I wonder how much work that pleating atelier gets, it seems like it wouldn't be a lot

It's amazing how deceptively simple some of these pieces look, it makes me wonder if putting all that effort into the one garment is worth it.

I find it sad that all that work went into creating some hideous pieces like that yellow ruffle dior dress, which looks like chewed pieces of gum stuck together. A lot of pieces are still beautiful though, and I appreciate them more after seeing what went into creating them