Lesage X Vionnet, Couture Embroidery

With more than twenty embroidery samples, the NGV’s Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM Fashion Research Collection holds a unique record of the relationship between Lesage and Vionnet.

Founded in 1858, the prestigious embroidery house of Michonet was purchased by Albert Lesage in 1924. It was renamed Maison Lesage and began producing elaborate embroideries for haute-couture fashion houses, including Madeleine Vionnet, whose innovations in design and construction introduced a language of modernity to fashion in the early twentieth century.?