Over time, André Lemarié had transformed the workshop of his grandmother Palmyre Coyette, created in 1880, into one of the official suppliers of Parisian haute couture, specializing in the work of the feather.
He was one of those “golden fingers”, an exceptional craftsman who, year after year, contributed to the glory of the collections of the big names in French luxury.
“In 1987, Lemarié, bird man, smoothed five thousand bird of paradise strands for Saint Laurent in a single stunning dress,”
said Janie Samet, fashion critic in
Le Figaro,
immersed in the plumassier's workshop, in 2002 And to continue:
In 1990, Mr. Yves wanting a coat that is like a lion's mane, seven hundred vultures and two hundred pheasants left their plumage there.
King of an extraordinary garden, the Chanel camellia has always been cultivated here by the hundreds of thousands.
Ten mythical petals cut with a cookie cutter in white percale, leather, Rhodoïd, mink, Cellophane, even
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