In the bright room in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, a few steps from the Père-Lachaise cemetery, dozens of sewing machines sew blouses on the warp. The sewing workshop manages to get out a thousand a day with two teams on staggered schedules.
"What was important was to participate to get out of this epidemic as quickly as possible," points out Lazar Cuckovic, boss of the LCC workshop. Its dressmakers are among the most meticulous technicians in the capital. They make the pieces of the most prestigious haute couture houses on a daily basis: Chloé, Dior, Saint-Laurent, Balenciaga.
For the past month, they have traded light muslin for surgical tissue. Accustomed to devoting long hours to the most minute details of a garment, they can now prick a blouse in 5 minutes. "What changes is the quantity [produced] and then all that white," says Lazar Cuckovic, in front of a pile of blouses, "It's [also] the sound of the workshop. I knew my machines which could whisper, speak, sing, but there they howl! "
Despite this express transition dictated by the health emergency, the workshop imposes a few high-seam touches on the smocks sent to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital. Like this transparent packaging decorated with a Dior logo to condition production, or these fitted sleeves, the only ones of its kind for medical coats.
