Date: 2014
Origin: Belgium
Fabric: Silk with leavers lace
Brand: Carine Gilson
A slip in bias cut black silk satin, embellished with an appliquéd ‘Bark’ brown chantilly lace. It is sewn with true couture techniques, using exquisitely fine narrow zigzag stitching for the appliqué, fine rouleau shoulder straps and French seams.
This rendition of the ‘Julia’ slip is from the brand’s ‘Ukiyo’ Autumn/Winter 2014/15 collection, the genre of Japanese art that translates literally as ‘The Floating World’. Gilson aimed for the collection to capture a ‘fluidity of gesture, [a] sense of floating’.
Carine Gilson is an eponymous couture lingerie brand, founded by the designer in 1993 in Belgium after graduating from the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. The label specialises in true couture, luxury lingerie, creating its garments in Brussels-based workshops by couturiers with a minimum of two years of specialist training. Many of the garments can take two full days to create, with eight different artisans working on them. The brand uses exclusively Lyon-made silk and Caudry leavers lace in its designs. According to the brand, 484 pins are used to hand apply the lace appliqué to a single robe design, and the workshop gets through 18,000m of lace flowers per year.
From the collection of Karolina Laskowska
