Lab Coat Dress top Departures and Vogue Business

Departures and Vogue Business

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showing you it's the real hand-woven stuff

The exposed fabric selvedge running down the front placket and sleeve cuff reminds you it's the real handwoven stuff

Lab Coat Dress top Departures and Vogue BusinessAs seen in WWD. When I designed this Lab Coat for the sewers in my workshop, I envisioned the white coats worn by the "petits mains" in the ateliers of the French haute couture tradition. While we make our garments entirely by hand, we also experiment like scientists boiling our fabric like a stew to soften it, and dipping our finger into the indigo dye vat to taste its pH. For this reason, a lab coat style seemed fitting. The handwoven fabric is