Some are graduates of École Lesage, the in-house embroidery school, although its training program, which can involve as much as 150 hours of instruction, is not a prerequisite for a job.
“The most difficult part is to make,” Mr. Barrère said.
“We’re talking about humans, not machines.”Mr. Barrère said it takes at least 100 hours to make an embroidery for a simple ready-to-wear garment.
“In haute couture, it’s 600, 800, 1,000 or 2,000 hours of work, it depends,” he continued.
Here is how it works:Conveying a ThemeFashion collections usually have themes, and Lesage artisans work with designers and their teams to turn those themes into embroidery.
Persons:
“ Lesage, ” Bruno Pavlovsky, École Lesage, Mr, Barrère, “, ”, Lesage, Chanel, Virginie Viard
Organizations:
École, Paramount Studios
Locations:
Lesage, Los Angeles