PRIVATE SITTINGS
By invitation. Made to measure.
The Atelier, Briefly Elsewhere
A private sitting is not a fitting. It is closest in spirit to what other houses call a trunk show: the atelier travels, briefly, to meet its clients, but the appointment is built around measurement and commission rather than a rack of stock. The house brings the pieces themselves, the actual samples made in advance so a design can be seen and held before it is ordered. It is the appointment at which a piece is committed to: measured precisely, ordered to your foot, and finished to your specification.
A few times a year, the house travels, most often to host the sitting at a boutique that meets its standard, and on occasion to a private residence or a suite at a hotel it already trusts. Each sitting carries a small, unrepeated run of designs, made once, in a fixed number, never made again. A design may be seen in the journal, in print, or in person. It is sold only here, to the women who order it at the sitting.
Measured and Made to Order
The measurement itself is exacting, not incidental. It is the same precision the atelier applies to every pair it builds, taken in person rather than guessed at from a size chart. Where the piece allows it, it can be marked as hers alone: initials, a chosen finish, a detail decided in the room.
Taro is often present, to confirm in person that a piece is right for the occasion it is made for. Bridal commissions, like everything sold this way, are made to order and to measure, with nothing held in stock to fall back on.
There is no rack and no inventory. Each sitting is by appointment, given the time it needs without being rushed, and concludes with an order, not a browse.
Where
Private sittings are arranged quietly, through a small number of boutiques, stylists, and personal shoppers the house already trusts, in the major cities where its clients live. There is no public schedule. To request an appointment, or to begin a made-to-order or bridal commission directly, write to the house.