At Georges Rech with Madame D'Argoeuves
marking off samples in the pink, above and below:)
don't know if he can hold a candle to Adele but...
Our fantastic Fashion Illustration Professor, Isabelle D'Argoeuves (click on her name to check-out our book that she wrote for teaching the subject), led us through a tour of one of the largest garment districts in Paris. The area is called Le Sentier, which is a quarter entirely devoted to the textile and ready-to-wear business. We viewed many mercerie shops which contain mainly notions and buttons, but some with textiles, too.
(About la mercerie (the shop), the original word is mercier (for a seller) & mercière (for a woman)
We walked through a couple of indoor, arcade style wholesale marts, and ended our tour at a fantastic design house, Georges Rech. Professor D'Argoeuves worked at Georges Rech for a substantial amount of time (she did not want to say how long) before teaching at CEA. She worked many designing ends, but predominantly designed accessories.
Some notes from the gracious employees' who spoke:
* takes trois mois (three months) to create one collection
* Georges Rech beadwork is done in India
* they are also under partnership with Apostrophe
* they work with 121 fabric companies, chose 40 styles, in which they order 3 to 5 colors of that style
* once they have all the colors and fabrics picked, then they design
* wonderful Thomas, designs knitwear and avows that it is more difficult to design knitwear than cut-and-sewn because it takes about 4 samples to get one piece designed correctly due to re-fittings
Check out Georges Rech's website too! (ps, check out raena's blog to see video of the pattern plotter in action!)
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