Brochier Technologies, Luxury Driving Textile Industry
Interview with Cédric Brochier,
Erasme, A web documentary on the textile industry in the Lyon Metropolis
Within Brochier Soieries, Cédric Brochier collaborates with numerous contemporary artists, alongside emerging designers and renowned couturiers such as Elisabeth de Senneville, Christine Phung, and Hervé Léger.
Fashion designer Olivier Lapidus is passionate about new technologies. It takes little to convince Cédric to experiment with the production of new materials. The two men develop several concepts that blend fashion and technology: dresses made from lyophilized silk particles propelled onto the body, 3D woven dresses without seams. The wedding dress with Jacquard patterns using optical fibers presented during the spring-summer 2000 haute couture fashion show was a sensation. The technological research on weaving optical fiber led to the patenting of the Lightex® process in 2003.
In 2014, Thierry Mugler approached Brochier Technologies to create his luminous dress featured in the advertisement for the Alien perfume.