Atelier MAUDÉ — The craft
From fibre
From fibre
to garment.
In Suzhou, every MAUDÉ coat takes shape through a sequence of steps that turn material into garment.
In Suzhou, every MAUDÉ coat takes shape through a sequence of steps that turn material into garment.
A MAUDÉ coat isn't made in a single gesture. It results from a sequence of steps — fibre to yarn, yarn to cloth, cloth to construction — that we follow from start to finish. It's this attention to the whole progression, not just to the starting material, that gives the garment its final form.
Before it becomes cloth, the cashmere fibre and the selected wool are spun. Spinning turns the raw material into yarn — a step described in more detail in Our Cashmere.
The resulting yarn already carries, before weaving even begins, the qualities of the fibre it comes from.
The wool and cashmere yarn is then woven to form the cloth that will become a MAUDÉ coat.
This is where the density of the cloth and its hand are decided — which, later, determines how the garment drapes on the body.
The cloth is then cut and sewn by the artisans working in the workshops in Suzhou. Each piece is individually inspected before dispatch.
The quality of a material only becomes meaningful once the garment is constructed with the same level of attention.
A MAUDÉ coat goes through more than 40 steps before it's ready to travel. That number isn't a statistic to display: it corresponds to the operations covered by harvesting the fibre, spinning and weaving, then construction — each broken down into several stages, checked one by one.
The complexity isn't a selling point; it's attention paid to the whole process.
Suzhou isn't just a manufacturing location: it's where the material actually becomes a MAUDÉ coat. Our partner ateliers there spin the fibre, weave it, then cut and assemble each piece.
We've worked with the same ateliers from the start, in a direct relationship rather than an anonymous order — a choice of proximity to the workshops, not a line of marketing.
Suzhou and Paris don't happen one after the other: they answer each other. Discover The House →
The way a cloth is cut and assembled is never neutral: it decides the volume, the length, the drape, the way a coat moves with the body.
In Huā Long, that drape is central to the coat's presence. In Yūn Long, it's the belt that closes each piece and redraws the silhouette. In Yūn Court, the same construction logic results in a shorter, freer proportion.
Three silhouettes, one standard of construction.
The material, the cloth, the construction, the proportion, the final silhouette: nothing stands alone. Every MAUDÉ coat is the result of a chain of decisions made from the fibre to the last seam.
See the coats Our Cashmere