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Now, with the arrival of Raf Simons at Dior and Hedi Slimane back where he started, in the ateliers of Yves Saint Laurent, the concept of exceptional clothes has taken on a different dimension.
He says it may be his last production.The play is presented in the Ateliers Berthier (formerly a warehouse for the Opéra Comique's scenery) as the Odéon itself is under restoration.
This was not a straightforward act of charity, however: Chanel haute couture, which is central to the image, if not the bank balance, of the Chanel business, could not exist without the skills perpetuated in the ateliers.
If the fleeting locus of modernism was anywhere, it was in the ateliers, the studios that functioned as home and workspace, where artists even chose to exhibit instead of in the cold arena of the salons.
In the end, what drew people to Paris, what made it possible for a Brancusi to exist, was that in the ateliers, working at night, you could free yourself from the rules, deceits, expectations that operated in daytime society.
Bits of fabric and thread lay scattered on the floor of Dior's main salon, while in the ateliers the atmosphere was almost surreal as middle-aged workers in lab coats bent over dresses of savagely cut black neoprene and rocker coats emblazoned with skulls and embroidered graffiti.
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This contrasts with the seemingly more stringent polemics you encounter in many of the "ateliers," have arisen in recent years.
(Chanel bought the ateliers in 2002, but all the Paris-based couturiers use them).
"The whole collection has now pushed so hard the perfection of the ateliers in subtlety and finesse," said Mr. Rainero, who has three studios with 60 metal workers.
Miyazaki roams the ateliers in his craft apron, trying to pass on 20th-century etiquette to the kids inking The Wind Rises' fuselage; outside, blossom falls and commercial pressures mount, oblivious to the exacting, time-intensive work required to conjure such committed images from scratch.("Most of our world is rubbish," sighs Miyazaki, making any number of recent digimations blush).
"In the other ateliers, I deal with an assistant.
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