Journal
A single gown followed from the first measure to the morning it is worn.
Each diary follows one commission over its nine months, written as it happens rather than assembled afterwards. The couple reads and approves every entry before it is published — several have asked for details to stay private, and those stay private.
They exist because the honest answer to “what takes nine months?” is long, and easier to show than to summarise.
Nine months in the cutting and finishing of a duchesse satin bridal gown, from the first sketch to the final pressing in the salon.
A commission taken four months out, after another house had been cancelled. What we moved to make it — and what we would not move.
Why the cloth for one gown was bought two years before the couple walked in, and what happens when a mill discontinues it halfway through.
Trunk show invitations, bridal diaries, and quiet first looks at the collections. Nothing else.