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Lumière Gown
A silk crepe column with a low scooped back, and two long panels of silk chiffon falling from the shoulders to the floor.
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The Story
The dress that catches the light.
The Lumière is the column with the chiffon panels — a silk crepe gown, scooped low at the back, with two narrow lengths of silk chiffon falling from the shoulders to the floor.
Lumière means light. The Riviera is famous for it: the painters who came south in the last century — Matisse, Bonnard, Dufy — came for that one thing. The chiffon does the same work that the painters were after. It catches the light and lets the light catch back.
The chiffon panels are hand-set on the shoulder seam, with a fine bias binding so they sit flat. The bodice is unboned. A single back hook at the nape, nothing more.
It is a quiet dress that moves.
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