ATELIER NOIR — N° 07 · The Noir Issue

In this issue

The architecture of shadow — a portfolio in six looks.

Nocturne, and the art of the after-hours coat.

Cloth, weight, silence — notes from the atelier floor.

Enter the portfolio

The Portfolio · 01 — 06

The Looks

Look 0101 / 06

Vesper

The blue minute, before the lamps are lit.

Photography — Elise Marchand · Styling — Otto Vane · Set — Rue Merle

Look 0202 / 06

Umbra

A coat that keeps its own counsel.

Photography — Séverin Lacroix · Styling — Ingrid Vasseur · Set — Camille Aro

Look 0303 / 06

The Long Coat

Wool to the ankle; the argument held to the end.

Photography — Noor Delacroix · Styling — Otto Vane · Set — Halcyon Bree

Look 0404 / 06

Ashfall

Grey upon grey, and the weight held between them.

Photography — Elise Marchand · Styling — Camille Aro · Set — Rue Merle

Look 0505 / 06

Meridian

Noon, undone — a collar deliberately left open.

Photography — Ingrid Vasseur · Styling — Séverin Lacroix · Set — Camille Aro

Look 0606 / 06

Nightjar

The last look — dressed, at length, for leaving.

Photography — Noor Delacroix · Styling — Otto Vane · Set — Halcyon Bree

Folio · from the letter of the editors

We do not photograph the garment.

We photograph the hour it belongs to —

the blue minute before the lamps, when a coat

is only a shape, and a decision.

— The Editors, Atelier Noir

Contents

01Vesperp. 12
02Umbrap. 18
03The Long Coatp. 24
04Ashfallp. 30
05Meridianp. 36
06Nightjarp. 42

Colophon

Atelier Noir is an independent quarterly of dress, object and interior, set in Playfair Display and Archivo. Printed in an edition of nothing at all — this issue lives only on the web.

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