Ateliers Lesage et Lemarie of Paris

Visual storytellers Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg of Ann Street Studios have a beautiful blog & photography portfolio and I fell in love with their reportage on the ateliers Lesage & Lemarié in  Paris. You can see their full article here. Jamie spent a week in Lacoste this summer and you can read her features on Lacoste here.

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Look at those beads....and the brown paper wrapping. In the atelier of Lesage, thousands of wooden drawers hold threads of different weight and colour, beads, crystals - in all there are over 60 tons of materials for creating their embroidered art.

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Incredible hand sewn sequin applications on tulle for Chanel - up close this is just drop dead gorgeous haute couture craftmanship.

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What I wouldn't give to peak closer into each drawer

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Lemaries incredible millinery flower tools, I've come across one or two in a belle brocante but I've never seen quite so many in one place.

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I ADORE these jewel colours on the black tulle

Thank you Jamie for this intimate visit into these ateliers!

All photography Jamie Beck