Synopsis
London, 2025. The Princess of England announces her engagement. Our story begins when representatives of her Highness contact a venerable French fashion house located at number 8, rue du marché Saint-Honoré in Paris, to place an order for a wedding gown. The show follows the making of the royal commission, as it passes from expert hand to expert hand. Over eight months, and the equivalent of 9,057 work hours, we see the creative acts that bring into being a dress already destined to go down in history. This is a rare privilege, as the whole process is bound by the strictest codes of confidentiality. If the world of high fashion is habitually secretive, the nature of the commission has put everyone on red alert.
From a Parisian house of haute couture, we venture to an embroidery workshop in Mumbai and a traditional lace-making workshop in Alençon, France. Three worlds, linked by their work and a high level of expertise and secrecy. Three workshops where violence will erupt among the threads of cotton and flax. Three workshops where the bodies of men and women have been ruined not only by labour, but also by past wrongs of which they are the unwitting, even unknowing, custodians. Without ever losing sight of the expertise these craftsmen and women wield, or the power and knowledge they have in their hands, the question the show will ask, over and over, is if there is a space, in the silence the secret imposes, between what destroys us and what preserves us?
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