Get to Know Our Paris Cover Stars: Prelle and Passementerie Verrier Paris
Two quintessentially French brands were the natural choice for our Report 8: Very Paris cover. Manufacture Prelle and Passementerie Verrier Paris - each with over 250 years of French production- represent the crème de la crème. And they have a unique way of working together that highlights their expertise. Get to know these luxurious cover stars!
Established Excellence
Established over 250 years ago, Prelle et Cie and Passementerie Verrier Paris know luxury goods intimately. As in past years, Passementerie Verrier Paris collaborated to create bespoke tie-back pairings for Prelle et Cie’s new 2021 fabric collection. Each tie-back is named after the fabric it has been made to accompany.
Passementier Verrier Paris’s new Genji tie-back sought to showcase the circular motifs as well as the play of shine and matte found in the silk and linen of Prelle's Japanese-inspired "Gengi" brocatelle. From “The Charming Pagoda” theme section in Report 8.
Manufacture Prelle
Prelle et Cie specializes in luxury silk production, and is one of the oldest silk manufacturers in Lyon today. Since 1752, Prelle manufacture has worked on heritage restorations and with private clients, and one specialties is re-creating archival textiles for historic mansions and palaces. Thanks to traditional wooden looms still in use today, the manufacture is able to faithfully replicate these documents, using the original techniques of the time. Prelle has an impressive archival fund, including treasures from the art deco era, and often taps this resource to satisfy the needs their clients or uses them for their new annual collection.
While firmly rooted in the past, the company has grown with the times. New technology investments include include high-speed looms, and forward-thinking marketing initiatives encompassing creative collabs such as the one with Adidas.
“Damas Kalahari” was selected as the fabric for this super-cool Adidas collaboration, giving a deco twist to the classic Stan Smith sneaker profile.
Passementerie Verrier Paris
Passementerie Verrier Paris creates lavish custom trimmings including decorative fringes, cords, rosettes, bows, tapes and tiebacks. The Paris-based workshop carries out high-end, bespoke projects, woven on Jacquard looms or made by hand.
The simplicity of the cylindrical shape of this Passementier Verrier Paris tie-back allows a delicate work of "limacé" in different materials, showcasing the matte / shiny / bouclé yarns of this contemporary "Gaby" fabric from Prelle. As seen in “The Naturalist’s Pavillion” Theme section in Report 8.
Passementerie Verrier Paris dates its history to 1753, when the names Paul and Gaspard Verrier first appear in the “regulations of the passementier Masters”. Their descendants continued their artisanal passementerie manufacturing techniques for the next 215 years! In 1968 the parents of current co-owner Yves Dorget, who started int he atelier as apprentices, bought the workshop from the Verrier family. The historic workshop has been at its current location in the 20th district of Paris since 1901 . Passementerie Verrier Paris’s latest chapter began in 2018, when Dorget partnered with Anne Anquetin, who is a co-owner and managing director of the firm. Their ambition is to leverage etheir unique and rare know-how to deliver bespoke trims and any type of textile ornaments for projects ranging from classic to contemporary.
A more subdued design was chosen for Passementier Verrier Paris’s new tieback "Zeist". Taking cues from the curves of this brocatelle, they added braided details in shapes in harmony with Prelle’s design. As seen in “The Country Estate” theme section in Report 8
Details, details, details!
Look at these hand-applied details! Passementerie Verrier Paris’s trimmings are still crafted by hand, from the hand-turned wooden core to the twisted fringe. This design reminds me of my client Jiun Ho’s incredible Soiree in Paris at Versailles in January 2020. My last big party before COVID.
To accompany the magnificent satin façonné “Concerto” from Prelle, worked in 100% silk, Passementier Verrier Paris took a classic model from their archives, with floral motifs, and accentuated it with the bright colors of this fantastic Louis XV fabric.
I took this picture in one of the bed chambers in the Palace of Versailles. The amount of decoration was breathtaking! So much work by so many creatives went into these opulent rooms.
Yours truly with my client and man-of-the-hour, Jiun Ho.
Cover look
Interpreting the almost psychedelic side of this 18th century design and exploiting the richness of colors, Passementerie Verrier Paris imagined a tie back with hypnotic "scales" on a generous cut skirt. If you are in Paris, Prelle’s new collection and Passementerie Verrier Paris’s tie-backs are in display in the Parisian showroom of the Manufacture Prelle, at 5 place des Victoires, in the 2nd arrondissement.
Interpreting the almost psychedelic side of this 18th-century 100% silk satin façonné design Galy & Gallien from Prelle and exploiting the richness of colors, Passementier Verrier Paris imagined these hypnotic "scales" on a generous cut skirt. From the cover of Report 8.