Maison Sable
Collection №5 — Dune
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Paris — Printemps–Été MMXXVI

Maison Sable

Collection №5 — « Dune » Six looks cut from sand

Begin — I / VI

Look I — a model in a floor-length ecru gown of spiral pleats, standing in a sculpted sand dunescape
Look I, Strate — one-shoulder gown of raw silk crepe, hand-pleated in spiral strata, worn barefoot in the sand

Soie grège — plissé couteau

Strate

Eleven passes of hand-pleating; one spiral seam, never locked. The pleats settle lower each wearing — the gown erodes toward its final shape.

Look II, Crête — strapless gown in bone wool zibeline with five standing sculpted waves, photographed among rippled dunes

Zibeline de laine — thermoformée

Crête

Five standing waves set with heat and held by nothing else. An hour of steam would return the wool to sleep; she is asked not to stand in the rain.

Look III, Cascade — a column dress in silk faille with a pleated cape falling from the left shoulder in nine blades
Detail — knife-pleated raw silk, grains of sand caught in the folds

Faille de soie — pliée en accordéon

Cascade

Nine blades fall from the left shoulder and outrun the hem. The column keeps still; the cape does the walking.

Look IV, Alluvion — bias-cut gown whose pleated skirt pools across the sand, the model standing between two dune waves

Crêpe de sable — coupé en biais

Alluvion

Cut two metres too long and pressed only where it pools. Where the skirt lands is where it was always going.

Look V, Volute — one-shoulder gown with a single continuous carved ruffle, lit by a blade of afternoon sun

Crêpe thermocollé — taillé en spirale

Volute

One continuous ruffle carved from shoulder to hem, held by tension alone. Undo the first curl and the garment returns to a flat sheet.

Look VI, Sillage — seen from behind at the dune crest, a backless gown whose pleated train fans for metres across rippled sand

Organza sablé — la traîne, quatre mètres

Sillage

Four metres of train erase her footprints as she walks. The collection closes the way a tide does — by leaving.

Matières

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Knife-pleated raw silk crepe, parallel ridges like wind ripples, sand grains in the folds
01Plissé couteauSoie grège · Looks I & III
Heavy wool zibeline thermoformed into two standing waves, sand dusted in the trough
02Zibeline thermoforméeLaine double-face · Look II
Sand-washed silk organza gathered into soft ridges like miniature dunes
03Organza sabléSoie lavée au sable · Look VI

From the atelier — on sand

We built this collection the way wind builds a dune: by insisting, gently, in one direction, for a long time.

Sand is the most honest material we know. It holds no seam and keeps no promise; whatever shape it takes, it is already leaving. Cloth is the opposite — woven to resist — so we spent two years teaching it to behave like ground instead. Pleats laid down as strata. Hems left unlocked so they erode. Waves set into wool that a single hour of steam would erase. Every look in « Dune » is built to be exact, and none of it is built to last.

Our ateliers press each pleat by hand, knowing the pleat will fall. That is not futility; that is the entire point. What the wind takes, the wind first made.

If Collection №5 carries one instruction, it is this: build carefully that which will not stay. Nothing else is worth the hands.

— Maison Sable, the atelier, spring

Enquiries

Salon
7 rue de la Dune, Paris IIe
Appointments
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The collection is shown privately, by the hour, while it lasts.
Press
presse@maisonsable.paris
Plates I–VI available on request.