A series of weightless jackets in front of a luminous screen look like x-rays of women where we don’t see lungs … but garments. This sublime, unsettling installation by artist Mal Burkinshaw was done in partnership with Sophie Hallette whose extremely fine, beautiful laces contribute to giving the show its magic.

“The hand and the machine” has been the balance at the heart of Sophie Hallette, a company that has associated the engineering of Leavers looms with the excellence of top craftsmen since 1887.

On Thursday October 13, 2016 at Salle Wagram in Paris, over 700 people attended an event honoring the winners of the 17th Liliane Bettencourt prize for exceptional skills.

Know-how and tradition. Creativity and innovation. Since 1887, Sophie Hallette has met these high standards. In its Caudry factory, techniques, skills and machines are transmitted from generation to generation and craftsman to craftsman.

La Cité de la dentelle et de la mode de Calais accueille jusqu’au 23 avril prochain, l’exposition « Mode In Taïwan » mettant à l’honneur les techniques et approches artistiques de trois stylistes taïwanais : APUJAN, Shao-Yen Chen et Mei-Hui Liu.

Since 1887, Sophie Hallette has been weaving Bobinnet tulle and Leavers laces, as sophisticated, poetic or else daring homages to light and transparency.

“Spectacular” according to the Dazed magazine, silhouettes that went from “conceptual to expressive, all the way to eccentric” specifies WWD