Keeping an eye on lace...

Gilles Rosier

One has the impression that for designers, lace is necessarily half-angel and half-devil. What do you feel ? Gilles Rosier : I do not know if I remove lace from this archetype, but let's say that in my collections it would tend to be more in the style of an alb for someone taking her first communion. Which can also be perverse (laughter). For Spring-Summer 2001 for example, I made suede lace dresses with lace panels inspired by old style lingerie...[More...]

Greige inspector, scaler, embroiderer, loom operator, loom mechanic, wheeler... behind these specialised terms lie precision professions which help create the finest lace. In the town of Caudry, famous for its creations intended for haute couture and ready-to-wear...[More...]

Once again, for the Autumn-Winter 2002-2003 haute couture collections, more than twenty companies chose Solstiss laces : Chanel, Christian Lacroix, John Galliano for Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Emmanuel Ungaro, Torrente, Balmain, Hanae Mori...[More...]

The least you can say is that, as regards fashion, with forty one years on the clock, was certainly not born yesterday. Althrough he currenty wears two hats, one as an independent designer and the other as ladies ready-to-wear artistic director for the Kenzo fasion house, it is due to the fact that Gilles Rosier has a wealth of experience behind him that makes him one of today's heavy-weight contenders in the new wave of Made in France designers...[More...]