A model in a sculptural black couture gown against a stark studio backdrop

Automne–Hiver 2026 · Collection No. VII

MAISON NOIR

A study in shadow, structure, and the silence between seams.

Scroll Paris · Haute Couture Week

The Manifesto

We do not chase the season. We build the garment as one builds a cathedral — slowly, in silence, by hand, until the cloth remembers the body long after it has gone.

— Éloïse Varennes, Directrice Artistique

The Lookbook

Automne
Hiver
MMXXVI

Six silhouettes. One unbroken line of black. Scroll to walk the show.

Look 01 — a tailored obsidian wool coat with exaggerated shoulders
01

Le Manteau Cathédrale

Double-faced wool, hand-pressed lapel

Look 02 — a flowing draped evening gown in deep black silk
02

Robe du Soir, Onyx

Bias-cut silk crêpe, 14 metres

Look 03 — a structured asymmetric blazer dress in matte black
03

Smoking Asymétrique

Grain de poudre, satin facing

Look 04 — an embroidered sheer black gown with intricate beadwork
04

Broderie Nocturne

320 hours of jet-bead embroidery

Look 05 — a sculptural cocoon coat in textured black mohair
05

Cocon, Mohair Noir

Hand-loomed mohair, raw edge

Look 06 — a column gown with architectural pleating finishing the collection
06

Colonne Plissée

Hand-set knife pleats, finale

Close detail of hands working hand embroidery on dark couture fabric

Savoir-Faire

The hand remembers what the machine forgets.

In a quiet atelier above the Place Vendôme, eleven petites mains give their days to a single garment. Each seam is closed by hand, each bead set under lamplight, each hem weighted to fall exactly as gravity intends. Nothing here is rushed; everything is remembered.

640 Hours per gown
11 Petites mains
1 Of its kind
Editorial portrait of a model in dramatic black couture, low key lighting

Editorial · No. VII

“Black is not the absence of colour. It is the presence of everything, held perfectly still.”

Vogue Paris · September Issue

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