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Italian Alta Moda moulage

Our draped patternmaking process. Pattern paper is sculpted by hand on the mannequin, in three dimensions, and the pattern is created from that draped form — resolved on the body before a single sample is made. This is the difference between flat patternmaking, drafted at a table, and couture: the difference between an ordinary garment and a luxury one.

Drafted by hand, then digitised for you · your original paper draft can be prepared and shipped to you as an add-on

Draping, pinning and marking a pattern by hand, on the mannequin and at the table — the Italian Alta Moda moulage method

Several full paper patterns laid out along a long metal cutting table, stacked and in progress, a patternmaker working over them — Patterns drafted and cut on the table

A close view of pattern paper draped on the form at the neckline and shoulder, clip-notched around the curved seam and pinned in a radiating fan — Neckline and shoulder, clip-notched and pinned

Hands shaping the paper on the form

A bodice half-draped in pattern paper on the form, one side worked and one side bare, sewing machines and croquis behind — Half-draped on the form, one side worked

Hands shaping pattern paper against the mannequin, fashion croquis on the wall behind — Shaping the paper against the form

A collar draped and pinned in pattern paper on the mannequin, our moulage method — Draping a collar in pattern paper, our moulage method

Pattern paper worked on the form, waistline marked

A rolling cart stacked with folded paper patterns and toiles in the atelier — Folded and filed — the pattern archive

Hem finishing, specified to the centimetre

Gathered tulle, shaped on the form

A fitted paper sheath toile on the form, side view — A fitted toile, in paper

A finished wool blazer beside its paper pattern piece — The pattern, and the piece it makes

A flat paper pattern covered in hand annotations — The flat pattern, marked by hand

A full paper toile front on the canvas form — Toile front, on the stand

A paper dress pattern on the form, engineering the lace-up side seams — Dress pattern, lace-up side seams engineered

The pattern measured, pinned and marked on the form

From a toile to a technical foundation

This is what you are buying.

The Couture Pattern is this work, engineered to your style and delivered ready for sampling — with us, or with any atelier or factory in the world. The Couture Tech Pack is the blueprint it is drafted from. Ordered per style, directly on the store.

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