Est. 1947 — Paris
L'Art de la Haute Couture
Collection Automne — Hiver MMXXVI
The Automne-Hiver collection explores the interplay between shadow and silence. Each piece is an architecture of absence, a meditation on the spaces between seams, constructed with the reverence of cathedral stonework and the lightness of morning mist over the Seine.
Hand-draped silk organza — 380 hours
Double-faced cashmere — 240 hours
Ostrich feather & Chantilly lace — 520 hours
Twelve metres of duchesse satin, hand-pleated over six months by our master petites mains. A single garment as monument.
IVWithin the hushed ateliers of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, our artisans practice traditions passed down through generations. Each stitch is placed with the precision of a watchmaker, each fold pressed with the patience of centuries.
The atelier employs forty-seven petites mains, whose combined expertise spans embroidery, pleating, featherwork, and the lost art of haute broderie. A single evening gown may require over five hundred hours of meticulous handwork.
Hand embroidery with gold and silver thread, silk floss, and semi-precious stones. Techniques dating to the courts of Versailles.
12 ArtisansMicro-pleating performed by hand, each fold measured to within a fraction of a millimetre. Heat-set for permanence and draped for movement.
8 ArtisansThe featherwork atelier sources ethically from heritage farms. Each plume is cleaned, dyed, curled, and placed individually by hand.
6 ArtisansThe soft dressmaking workshop, where fabric is draped directly on the mannequin. An intuitive art of sculptural fluidity and graceful proportion.
21 ArtisansEach défilé is conceived as a total work of art. Music, light, architecture, and movement converge in a fleeting performance where garment becomes gesture and fabric becomes feeling.
Palais de Tokyo, Paris. A raw concrete cathedral transformed into a darkened theatre, where a single beam of light illuminates each look as it passes.
An original score composed by Nico Muhly, performed live by the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Strings dissolve into electronics, mirroring the collection's tension between heritage and rupture.
Choreographed by Damien Jalet. Models do not walk; they process. Each step is measured, each pause deliberate, transforming the runway into a ritual of cloth and motion.
Founded by Lucien Beaumont in a small atelier on Rue Cambon. The first collection of twelve pieces was shown to a private audience of thirty. The silence that followed the final look became legend.
The golden age of Maison. Lucien Beaumont dresses the leading actresses of European cinema and the grande dames of Parisian society. The house becomes synonymous with architectural elegance and restrained drama.
Isabelle Beaumont, granddaughter of the founder, assumes creative direction. She strips the house back to its essential codes: the structured shoulder, the invisible seam, the studied silhouette. A radical return to purity.
Artistic director Yael Okoye joins the house, bringing a boundary-dissolving vision that fuses West African textile traditions with the precision of French couture. The house enters a new era of global dialogue while honouring its Parisian roots.
Couture is not fashion. It is the opposite of fashion. It is permanence dressed in cloth.Lucien Beaumont, 1953