The hardest garments, made properly.
Evening and occasion wear is where production either is couture-trained or visibly is not. Corsetry that holds for ten hours, draping engineered to repeat across a run, boning, trains, closures under tension, embellishment that survives a dance floor: these are bench skills, not factory settings. This atelier builds eveningwear for labels that sell it: occasion brands, eveningwear lines, boutique houses, and designers adding a dressed-up category to an existing label.
Everything happens under one roof in Paris: pattern, toile, sourcing, construction, hand finishing, and where the design calls for it, hand embellishment with the hours stated in the quote. Bridal-adjacent pieces route through the same bench as our bridal production.
The piece, and the proof.
A finished gown, and our bench goldwork at thread level. Click the detail to inspect it.
How eveningwear is produced here.
Development, once per style.
From $2,500 per style with the first sample included: pattern, technical file, sourcing with swatched approval, the sewn sample, one revision round. The documents are yours. Reorders never pay development again.
Construction that holds.
Boned bodices with waist stays, engineered drape that reproduces identically across a run, trains with planned bustles, invisible closures under load, linings that finish clean. The internal architecture is where occasion wear earns its price, and where we spend the hours.
Runs from five, or one at a time.
Production runs start at five pieces per style per colorway, from $220 per piece and rising with construction and embellishment. Made-to-order single pieces are normal here: develop the style once, sell from the sample, and each sale is cut against the order, in standard sizes or to your client's measurements.
Timelines built around your season.
Development and first sample in three to four weeks per style. Runs in three to six weeks by complexity. Single made-to-order pieces typically ship in three to five weeks. Occasion wear has deadlines attached to real events; we plan backwards from them and say no honestly when a date cannot be met.
A run of five is a launch, not a gamble.
A three-style occasion line, priced honestly.
A typical opening order in this category: three occasion styles, twenty-five pieces each. Development for the three, $7,500 with samples included. Production from roughly $220 to $450 per piece depending on construction, so $16,000 to $34,000 for the seventy-five pieces. All in, most three-style occasion lines land between $25,000 and $42,000 before shipping, with every number itemized in the quote before anything is cut. Smaller starts are normal: one style at five pieces opens the relationship for under $5,000.