From September 28th to October 1st, we invited guests to immerse themselves in Julie’s world of fashion and artistry featuring a selection of products from renowned friends & partners.
Friends featured at the Open House:
@anyahindmarch
@capulette_official
@carlasaibene
@causse_gantier
@collectorsquare
@laffanour_galeriedowntown
@hemp_liquid by @91530lemarais
@kurebazaar
@maisonalexandragolovanoff
@lamaisondecommerce
@sylvie.lancrenon
@to_beegreen
& JL Vintage Closet
Julie creates couture dresses and Alexandra luxury cashmere sweaters. They share the same idea of effortless, luxurious fashion. This collaboration is the fruit of their friendship and shared vision.
Shop three styles, in very limited quantities
Julie de Libran has long admired the sense of pattern and color which her friend Nathalie Farman-Farma brings to her home fabric line. Julie and Nathalie wanted to celebrate their shared French heritage with a capsule collection of dresses and blouses dedicated to their love of French craftmanship, textiles and fashion.
Nathalie Farman-Farma, is the textile designer behind the acclaimed fabric line Décors Barbares, best known for its folkloric charm and romantic exuberance. A Franco-American by birth, she draws her inspiration from the "Silk Road" and its rich history, as well as French textile craftmanship. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Vogue, The World of Interiors, Town&Country, Cabana, as well as the best-selling book “Haute Bohemians” by Miguel Flores-Vianna. She collaborated again with Flores-Vianna on her own book of interiors, entitled “Décors Barbares,” which was published by Vendome Press in September 2020.
For her collaboration with Julie de Libran, Nathalie chose two archival French nineteenth century designs from her collection, Natacha and Garrance. "Industrialization revolutionized fashion. These floral prints would have been mass-market, which explains why they now have a certain folkloric feel" she explains. Working with a French designer, I wanted to highlight this historical connection. The colorful designs are extremely versatile and can be accessorized in many ways.
Photos by Lynette Garland
The Supima Design Lab is a fashion exhibition that took place on October 19th at the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, France. It featured select designers including finalists from the International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories – Hyères, the Supima Design Competition, and Leading International Designers that included Julie de Libran. Each presented designs made using Supima fabrics. Created exclusively for the Supima Design Lab, each design showed the endless possibilities of creativity stemming from a commitment to sustainable innovation and superior quality.
Julie de Libran was pleased to participate in The Luxury Edit, a sale series by world-famous auction house Sotheby's: a curated selection of Couture looks by Julie de Libran was part of an exhibition at Sotheby's Paris, from September 23rd to 28th 2022.
By appointment only: byappointment@juliedelibran.com
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Julie de Libran has just opened her first physical location, in the heart of the Left Bank, in Paris.
Meant as both a store and a workshop, she calls it an “atelier/boutique”, she welcomes her customers into her world. Her Ready-to-Wear collections in limited numbered series and her jewelry are available, but the Couture collection is also visible (by appointment).
Julie de Libran Paris
3 rue de Luynes 75007 Paris
Open Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday by appointment.
Founded in 1821 in Gien in the Loire Valley, Faïencerie de Gien made its reputation in the 19th century by creating tableware for the great aristocratic families of Europe. Earthenware that symbolises French know-how, each piece is unique and different in its composition, the quality of its creations and its shapes.
A time for reflection, as Gien looks back at the many artistic collaborations of Faïencerie that have contributed immensely to the history of the decorative arts for the last 200 years.
Always associated with the artists of the time, Gien has invited 3 creatives — Julie de Libran among them — to its anniversary table to showcase their savoir-faire, marked creativity and ethical commitment.
“For this special anniversary, I have projected my couture craftwork into a tabletop and vase in earthenware with the legs made by Aurélien Raynaud, painter, sculptor.
I grew up with the Faïences de Gien, I have always admired this French and artisanal know-how. My creations are fashion, couture and jewellery, but I am also extremely sensitive to everything that surrounds me, the French art of living, and I am increasingly interested in the creation of decorative worlds. It's a way for me to express my visual aesthetic in a new medium.
For this special project, I called upon my cousin, animal artist Aurélien Raynaud, to create a synergy and obtain a mix of inspirations. It's the first time I've wanted to work with him. I felt that our different creative worlds could bring something new and unusual to this 200th anniversary of the Faïencerie Gien. I always love mixing worlds.
For the technicality, it's how to adapt a bust that I'm used to working on to a vase or a plate. I wanted to give it something offbeat and linked with my creative universe, sewing, as well as the manual work of Aurélien's sculptures and this very visual universe.”
Julie de Libran
The jewelry collection making-of with Goosens
Since the 1950s, the house of Goossens has won a reputation for unequaled savoir-faire in jewelry-making. It has produced collections for some of the great fashion designers of France. Julie de Libran is proud to add her name to the house’s list of eminent collaborators.
When she started designing her jewelry for this season’s collection she was inspired by gold and colored stones. She remembered she had brought back from India 9 years ago, different bracelets with colored semiprecious stones that she had gotten for the beauty of the stones, she started sketching shapes of jewelry putting the stones at the center of the pieces and combining the colors together.
Julie de Libran feels jewelry can also be seen as a finished edge on a sleeve, the neckline of a dress or even incorporated as the centerpiece of the dress which is all that is needed and tells a story.
Behind the scenes film by Sisley Paris from the making of Couture film shot by Sonia Sieff
Julie de Libran has known the name Charvet for years, but this season, she discovered new ways to use their unique savoir faire to create her own silhouettes. It is no secret that Charvet makes the finest men’s shirting. Together, they have selected some of their best striped cottons to compose a series of shirt dresses, sun dresses and sahariennes. Julie de Libran has always kept in her creations a feminine and masculine side, therefore designing dresses in Classic men’s fabrics felt very desirable.
She has created three silhouettes all made in France by Ateliers Chic and Style.
This season, Julie de Libran started a collaboration with Eres known for its excellence in pattern making, for its cuts, perfection in finishings, details which signs their savoir-faire. Eres has always created shapes that sublimes the natural forms of all women and their body. She has made a selection of their lace leavers and designed with the studio shapes with precise lines to create a unique silhouette. A result of brassieres, leggings, body suits and nightgowns that are meant for day time.
Julie: This is my very first collaboration with my own brand, Julie de Libran. It’s all totally new, I’m very excited about it, and proud of what we’ve achieved.
Marie-Paule Minchelli: ERES has collaborated a few times in the past. Each project is chosen carefully and each party’s approach to style and fashion is taken into consideration.
Julie: An ethical stance and a contemporary approach. Only fabrics from our archives are used, to give our exceptional materials a second life.
Marie-Paule Minchelli: Our laces are all exclusive and the patterns designed in our Parisian workshops, so it was important for us to provide them with another opportunity to shine through Julie’s creations. The approach is actually very innovative, because it is highly exclusive, personal and ethical. Each piece can be sold separately, but we really do recommend opting for the full look. Each element, including the ERES pieces, is numbered. The series is extremely limited. There are a maximum of 100 items available, and only twenty for some pieces.
Julie: The pieces were presented during my Paris showroom event from 26 to 30 January 2021. For people who cannot visit in person, we are going to present the pieces using Zoom. The collection can then be sold all over the world. Especially on platforms like Matches Fashion, where the first pieces were very popular!
Julie: Due to what’s happening in the world at the moment, I really wanted to surround myself with the very best Parisian expertise this season. I felt a need for the grounding of typically French savoir-faire. A need to get back to what is truly essential.
Julie: I have always worn ERES. I can’t even remember my first piece. I grew up with ERES. My mother and grandmother had pieces in their wardrobe, and they both had a real eye for detail and an innate sense for fashion. As French women living abroad, we had a special relationship with French know-how. I can’t even count the number of ERES swimsuits and lingerie sets in my wardrobe now, my collection goes back years. They are timeless. ERES is really about quality. Out of 18 looks, 15 are embellished with lace and/or are ERES pieces! We really created the line as a team.
Julie: The basic principle was really to provide a complete overall look for a contemporary woman. And that’s why the idea of bringing in unique pieces of ERES lingerie came to me incredibly easily. I have always been drawn to ERES lingerie because it combines stylish beauty and technical prowess, which is rare. I started out by contacting Marie-Paule because I wanted some lace pieces for my looks, and the collaboration just blossomed from there.
Marie-Paule Minchelli: At first we didn’t have any sketches, we worked together to chose the lace that we thought would do justice to Julie’s designs. After the laces had been chosen, Julie began the first sketches. It was amazing to see how my lingerie pieces became items of couture. For example, there were no hooks on the backs of the crop tops, no elastic on the waistline of the leggings. These details are skilfully worked into corsetry, but ultimately cannot exist in couture. Modelling was also a real issue, we usually work on real people, in this case we had to work using Julie’s designs. For example, our bodysuit has a large “V” at the back which fits perfectly under one of Julie’s dresses.
Marie-Paule Minchelli: I love all the pieces but I think I really fell in love with the lace crop-top bra. It has a very couture character that I really like.
Julie: I would say the lace leggings. I think they’re a strong and very on-trend piece. We work well as a team! I also really like the dress with the ERES lace frills; I think the combination of different styles of lace looks fascinating, really beautiful.
Our Gilda crop top and skirt in leopard print is in @lulaofficial fall-winter issue
Bluebird dress by Julie de Libran worn by actress Julie Gayet in episode of season 4 of famous French TV show Call My Agent!
As part of Paris Fashion Week, Julie de Libran welcomes you into her home for a very intimate Open House event to present a capsule collection well as those of some of her dearest friends. With special thanks to Sisley.
Open House Edition #2 coming up early 2021!
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On the occasion of the one year anniversary of Julie de Libran Paris, we have taken part in Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode's online event with this special video produced by Frédéric Sanchez - first aired on July 8th 2020.
