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Portrait — Paris, 2024
Atelier
Forty years of hands in a tailor's house. Three days with the cutters, the fitters and the chalk.
Forty years of hands in a tailor's house.
Photography
Inès Moreau
Styling
The house
Model
The atelier team
Hair & make-up
None
Location
Le Marais, Paris
Published in
Revue Ouvert, Nº 11
Photography
Inès Moreau
Styling
Margaux Belin
Model
Ilse V. at Studio Orsa
Location
Le Marais, Paris
Plate 01 — The tailor's hands
The cutting room is silent until eleven. Then the radio goes on and nobody turns it off until the last fitting.
Plate 02 — The cutting table
Three days
Monsieur Aubert has cut cloth in the same room since 1984. He let me stay on one condition: no flash, and never in the way of the scissors.
So I worked with the window and a long lens, and photographed hands more than faces. Hands tell you how long someone has done this.
Plate 04 — The last fitting
Plate 03 — Chalk
“A good jacket takes forty hours. A good tailor takes forty years.”
— Inès Moreau
Plate 06 — Pins
Notes
Shot on a Contax G2 with a 90mm lens, Kodak Portra 800, developed and printed in Paris.
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Portrait — Paris, 2024
Atelier
Forty years of hands in a tailor's house. Three days with the cutters, the fitters and the chalk.
Forty years of hands in a tailor's house.
Photography
Inès Moreau
Styling
The house
Model
The atelier team
Hair & make-up
None
Location
Le Marais, Paris
Published in
Revue Ouvert, Nº 11
Photography
Inès Moreau
Styling
Margaux Belin
Model
Ilse V. at Studio Orsa
Location
Le Marais, Paris
Plate 01 — The tailor's hands
The cutting room is silent until eleven. Then the radio goes on and nobody turns it off until the last fitting.
Plate 02 — The cutting table
Three days
Monsieur Aubert has cut cloth in the same room since 1984. He let me stay on one condition: no flash, and never in the way of the scissors.
Plate 04 — The last fitting
Plate 03 — Chalk
“A good jacket takes forty hours. A good tailor takes forty years.”
— Inès Moreau
Plate 06 — Pins
Notes
Shot on a Contax G2 with a 90mm lens, Kodak Portra 800, developed and printed in Paris.
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Portrait — Paris, 2024
Atelier
Forty years of hands in a tailor's house. Three days with the cutters, the fitters and the chalk.
Forty years of hands in a tailor's house.
Photography
Inès Moreau
Styling
The house
Model
The atelier team
Hair & make-up
None
Location
Le Marais, Paris
Published in
Revue Ouvert, Nº 11
Photography
Inès Moreau
Styling
Margaux Belin
Model
Ilse V. at Studio Orsa
Location
Le Marais, Paris
Plate 01 — The tailor's hands
The cutting room is silent until eleven. Then the radio goes on and nobody turns it off until the last fitting.
Plate 02 — The cutting table
Three days
Monsieur Aubert has cut cloth in the same room since 1984. He let me stay on one condition: no flash, and never in the way of the scissors.
So I worked with the window and a long lens, and photographed hands more than faces. Hands tell you how long someone has done this.
Plate 04 — The last fitting
Plate 03 — Chalk
“A good jacket takes forty hours. A good tailor takes forty years.”
— Inès Moreau
Plate 06 — Pins
Notes
Shot on a Contax G2 with a 90mm lens, Kodak Portra 800, developed and printed in Paris.
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