MEMBER SIGN-IN
We're sorry, we can't find the username and password combination you've submitted. Please try resubmitting your information. Please note, username and password are not case sensitive.
Not a Style.com member? Join now, it's free and easy.
Remember me next time
NOT A MEMBER?
Join Style.com to get full access to our special features and community. It's fast and free.
join now
JOIN NOW
We're sorry, but we could not accept your request. Incomplete/incorrect fields are highlighted in the form below with a ! symbol. Please fill out these fields and click submit.
To access this feature, fill in the fields below and click "Submit." To get full access to Style.com's special features and community, join now

Please send me occasional e-mail updates about new features and special offers from Style.com. Yes   No
I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Mobile Terms and Conditions.
LEAVE A COMMENT
We're sorry, but we could not accept your request. Incomplete/incorrect fields are highlighted in the form below with a ! symbol. Please fill out these fields and click submit.
Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive.
Email me when there are new comments

Designer update

paris perfection via brooklyn

July 8, 2008  5:25 pm

Sophietheallet

When it comes to the minute niceties of their garments—hand-finished seams, meticulous steaming for shape—many designers talk the talk, but very few walk the walk. For Sophie Théallet, there was no possibility of not taking a stroll. The French-born designer may have relocated to Brooklyn, but she’s not giving up on the techniques that she mastered during her ten years as Azzedine Alaïa’s right-hand woman. Instead, she trained her New York seamstresses to sew like petits mains. “At the beginning, they would look at me like I was crazy,” she says. “I would say take it out, make it straight, do it again. It was painful. But now they’re very proud.” The results are evident in Théallet’s meticulously fitted clothes, like the black silk chiffon cocktail dress from her Fall ‘08 collection that falls in perfectly undulating panels to the knee.

Sophie Théallet is available at Barneys New York, Blake in Chicago, Susan of Burlingame in California, and Forty Five Ten in Dallas. For more information, see www.sophietheallet.com.

—Nancy MacDonell

Photo: Leda & St.Jacques

tags:



USER COMMENTS  (0)

‹ jason wu’s tokyo diary | main | i’d like some psychedelics with my highlights, thanks ›

Style.com