Atelier Montex

Embroidery Where Lesage is the grand archive, Montex is the experimenter. Founded by Jacques Lemonier to embroider fabrics for Paris houses, it found its voice in the early 1980s under artistic director Annie Trussart, who borrowed from music and architecture and paired unexpected materials. Its sample archive includes lace embroidered onto newspaper and spirals of baguette beads built up in 3D. Look here for the bolder, more graphic side of couture embroidery. Montex joined Chanel's craft group in 2011 and was the first atelier to move into le19M, in March 2021.