Haute dentelle (Designer Lace)

Exhibition Catalogue Haute Dentelle, presented at the Cité de la Mode et de la Dentelle, Calais (9 june 2018 - 6 jan. 2019).

Haute Couture and Lace. "Haute Dentelle" offers a unique insight into the contemporary uses by fashion designers of lace woven on Leavers looms. Implicitly, exhibition curator Sylvie Marot weaves a unique dialogue between lace houses and fashion houses, revealing behind these exchanges powerful creative propositions.

First inspired by and then liberated from hand-made lace, mechanical laces have been marrying tradition with innovation for 200 years. Synonymous with delicacy, the apparent fragility of the lace is an illusion: its woven texture makes it unravelable. A textile of high technicity, the subject of never-ending design research among lace-makers, lace has never been so multi-faceted. In infinite shades, textures, finishing techniques and embroideries, it may be transparent or opaque, with floral or abstract patterns, light or three-dimensional... to the point of becoming magnificently unrecgonizable.

Exceptional pieces have been selected from thirteen fashion houses: Chanel, Christian Dior, Iris van Herpen...