Brochier Soieries at the Lyon Braderie Festival
From 9 to 11 October, Brochier Soieries will be taking part in the Lyon Braderie Festival, organised by My Presqu’île. This year, at our stand on Place des Jacobins, we will be offering a selection of silk squares and scarves, silk fabrics by the metre and small...
collection Renoir Brochier Soieries
Nature is ever-present in Renoir’s work. Gardens, bouquets, foliage and flowers surround his figures, their colours and light contributing to the vibrant and joyful vision of the world that characterises his paintings. Following the exhibition Renoir and Love....
Perrine Ferrat at BS1: One Territory, Multiple Intelligences
Following a first exhibition devoted to the luminous creations of Vincent Girard, BS1, the gallery founded by Brochier Soieries, welcomes Perrine Ferrat, a Lyon-based artist whose work we have followed and admired for many years. Through a distinctive visual language...
Silk, Gold and Silver: The Art of Reinvention
Some materials endure through the centuries without ever losing their power to fascinate. Silk is one of them. So is gold. For 130 years, Brochier Soieries has woven gold and silver threads. One might imagine this expertise to belong solely to the realm of heritage,...
It All Begins with the Fabric
When we admire a haute couture dress, our eye is naturally drawn to the silhouette, the cut or the movement of the garment. The couturier and the silk maker, however, look first at the fabric. A fabric is never simply a medium. It shapes the creative process. Its...
In Search of Brochier Soieries Dresses
The search often begins online, following the trail of the great couturiers who worked with Brochier Soieries. It then leads to specialist dealers, American boutiques dedicated to reselling luxury dresses, and collectors who preserve creations by the great fashion...
The Story Behind an Exhibition
When the Musée Soieries Brochier opened its doors in 2022, one thing quickly became clear. Among the many creations that have shaped the history of the house since 1890, its gold and silver fabrics held a special place. They had captivated some of the greatest...
Reviving Silk Production in Europe: Brochier Soieries Supports Romania’s Sericulture Revival
While Europe now imports most of the silk it processes, an ambitious project is taking shape in Romania: to revive a sericulture sector that has all but disappeared and establish a leading research centre dedicated to silkworms and mulberry cultivation in Băneasa,...
Exhibition Sublimer l’étoffe: Two Brochier Soieries Works Brought Together by the Musée des Tissus and the Musée de Fourvière
Prototype silk square based on a work by Marc Chagall, printed by Brochier Soieries (1958) For the exhibition Sublimer l’étoffe. Artistes et créateurs de mode face au sacré (Sublimating Fabric: Artists and Fashion Designers in Dialogue with the Sacred), the Musée des...
The King’s Kitchen Garden: Zoë de Givenchy entrusts the creation of her silk scarf to Brochier Soieries
A silk scarf inspired by a masterpiece of the gardens of Versailles Through Le Potager du roi, Zoë de Givenchy pays tribute to one of the jewels of French heritage: Le Potager du roi at Versailles. The design of the scarf is based on a historical plan of this...
Brochier Soieries and Daniel Buren: Forty Years of Collaboration
A New Silk Scarf for Plantations, travaux in situ at Giverny On the occasion of Daniel Buren's new installation at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Brochier Soieries continues a collaboration with the artist that began more than forty years ago. Entitled...
Brochier Soieries célèbre Ellsworth Kelly avec la Fondation Maeght
A new silk scarf dedicated to the work of Ellsworth Kelly On the occasion of the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly – At the edge of water at the Fondation Maeght, Brochier Soieries continues its long-standing dialogue between artistic creation and textile excellence by...