Lesage is one of French most ancient embroidery workshops, has 128 year history. Its founder Albert Michonet is the embroidery teacher who decides uniform John Galliano founder Charles FrederickWorth high-level. In information bank which composes by several crowded small Chinese style pavilions, is storing 60 tons paillettes, the silk thread and the nail bead, preserved has 65000 precious embroidery samples, the content rich once let designer John Galliano study without eating or sleeping to the night. in 1985, the CHANEL Corporation’s embraced one after another into Lesage embroidery workshop seven manual workshops serves under somebody’s banner, this was a loose contract, besides was CHANEL works for, these the personal workshop which purchased are also allowed to meet other individual customer or the fashionable clothing brand order form. The purchase goal lies in the protection, these die of old age day after day the artisan John Galliano and borders on the handicraft which is lost is unable to duplicate has custom-made the existence high-level the foundation, is also the French fashionable clothing civilization living fossil. Perhaps, high-level will have custom-made will be the same in the future with China’s Peking opera, is taken one cultural symbol to preserve, but knowing will be really thin, the follower will be really few.
Perhaps as the non-material cultural heritage’s sample is an important reason which has custom-made high-level needs to exist, but if has lost the commercial attribute, it then no longer has forward the development driving force. Therefore, during near 20 years, the French High-quality Fashionable clothing Trade union has devoted to around the world to high-level have custom-made seeks for the broader existing space. They revised first about the standard which joins a society, and established newly in 1996 “invited the member” the John Galliano (Guestsmember) project. in 2008 in the fall winter Paris high-quality fashionable clothing week, participates the invited designer population achieved 15 people, Chinese designer Mark has become the Chinese designer who first entered Paris high-quality fashionable clothing week. This year, after undergoing the committee vote through, the French High-quality Fashionable clothing Trade union has admitted six illegal foundations of the state earth young blood, comes from countries separately and so on Iceland, India and Lebanon, they are invited to participate July’s 09 fall winter Paris to have custom-made high-level the fashionable clothing week. Such open mind, speaking of the high-quality fashionable clothing trade union which appears by the rule making’s posture in the high-quality fashionable clothing, was already the very big concessions.