From the sketchbook
Every piece starts as a few pencil lines and a handful of swatches on the workroom table.
Sample image · Replace with your ownBefore there is a pattern, there is a drawing — usually quick, usually on the wrong page.
The Solene slip began as six lines and a note about the cowl. The swatches beside it are the cloths we weighed it against: oxblood charmeuse, a heavier plum satin, a dusty rose that became the Marceline skirt.
From there it goes to a toile in calico, then to the first cut in silk, then back to the drawing when something does not fall the way it should.