Pre-Fall Métiers d’Art designs take viewers on a journey to discover the pinnacle of traditional handicraft arts, created by skillful hands, keen artistic sensibility and creativity.
Under the direction of `conductor` Karl Lagerfeld, the strengths of each atelier are promoted and harmoniously blended together, creating works of art bearing the mark of local culture.
Lesage & Montex
Lesage and Montex factories are both known as giants in the traditional hand embroidery art industry, but the factor that makes each factory famous comes from its unique embroidery technique.
The Lesage saga began in 1958 when Charles F. Worth opened the first shop honoring the embroidery techniques of master craftsman Albert Michonet.
With the Métiers d’Art Paris-Salzburg collection, Lesage’s traditional hand-embroidering skills are showcased through embroidered patterns with feathers interspersed with details of Edelweiss flowers and star wings, realistically recreating the painting.
A complete embroidery sample of atelier Lesage
The story of Montex atelier is associated with crochet, machine, and needle-work techniques that originated in 1949. Montex is known for its top-notch embroidery techniques with its style.
Like a pen drawing a dream, each needle and thread conveys the poetry of the collection through embroidered patterns that simulate the natural scenery of the Tyrolean region such as flowers, pebbles and berries on the background of Chanel’s famous tones.
Details of leaves, flowers, pebbles and berries
Michel
Founded in 1936 by Auguste Michel, the Michel name quickly became a benchmark of 20th-century hatmaking.
The pioneering Michel factory proposed sewing pieces of straw together to form a new type of hat.
Lemarié
During the early 20th century, nearly 300 skilled craftsmen made feathers in Paris.
Lemarié House was founded by Palmyre Coyette, who was known as the French master of feather craft in the late 19th century.
In addition, Lemarié is also known for its artificial flower making technique, providing more than 20,000 camellia flowers to Chanel each year.
The beautiful and extremely unique bag design is only available in the annual Métiers d’Art collections of Chanel fashion house.
Lemarié craftsmen meticulously attach each feather on top of each other to create a perfect work.
Eldelweiss flowers and blue micro-beads are embroidered using the Lunéville crochet technique.
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