The Commissions are not a lookbook.
What follows is an editorial portfolio — a curated record of fewer than eighty private commissions completed within the atelier over the last twelve months. Each gown, ceremonial ensemble, or editorial piece shown here belongs to a single named client. None will be made twice. None carry a public price.
We do not publish a seasonal collection. We do not offer ready-to-wear. The atelier accepts new commissions by private request only, and only after a first correspondence with our concierge. A reservation at the Manhattan studio is the beginning of every piece.
C. Ricci, Atelier Director
The Bridal Trousseau
A trousseau, in the old sense, is not one dress. It is the wardrobe of a wedding week — ceremony, civil, reception, after-party, rehearsal, and the quiet hours between. Our bridal commissions are built as a trousseau from the first fitting: the silhouette is drawn once, then translated into five, nine, or eleven coordinated looks, each cut by a single master seamstress from the same bolt of silk.
The eleven-month lead is not a delay. It is the discipline required to hand-apply, on average, fourteen thousand five hundred embellishments per gown, and to complete our complimentary second-gown trousseau fitting — a service introduced in 2023 and, to our knowledge, offered by no other New York atelier.
Selected from the Bridal Archive, MMXXIV
A private archive of forty-one further bridal commissions is available on written request via the concierge.
Red Carpet & Ceremonial
A red-carpet commission is a controlled detonation on a single night. The atelier accepts no fewer than 280 hours per piece and as many as 1,200 — a window our master seamstresses will not shorten. We do not promise a finished gown in under six months. We do not promise a finished gown at all, if the silhouette cannot carry the room.
These commissions are reserved for awards-season, Cannes, the Met steps, amfAR, and a small number of private ceremonies. The work is photographed by editorial houses that have placed the atelier across fourteen consecutive editorial seasons — a quiet record, kept in lieu of the named-client claims we will not make.
Selected from the Red Carpet Archive, MMXXIV
The atelier has placed work across fourteen consecutive editorial seasons — verification kept in lieu of any named-celebrity claim.
Editorial & Period
The third chapter is reserved for stylists, fashion editors, and film costume departments. The atelier pace is identical to bridal and red-carpet — a single seamstress from the first cut to the final hand-tack — but the intake protocol is its own. A reference image, a brief, and a fitting schedule are agreed before any silk is cut.
Period work follows the same rule. In 2023 the atelier completed the eleven-look ceremonial wardrobe for a royal wedding in Central Asia; the garments were hand-cut from archival references and finished with period-correct hand-rolled hems. The work is loaned, not sold, and returned to the studio archive on completion of the project.