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Issue Nº 04 — The Campaign

Issue Nº 04 — The Campaign

The Quiet

Weight of Cloth

The Quiet

Weight of Cloth

Autumn — Winter 2026

Look 01 — Wool gabardine coat, hand-finished in the Paris atelier. Photographed on location, June 2026.

Look 01 — Wool gabardine coat, hand-finished in the Paris atelier. Photographed on location, June 2026.

Campaign — 04

A wardrobe is not assembled. It accumulates — season over season, like sediment, until it holds the shape of a life.

A wardrobe is not assembled. It accumulates — season over season, like sediment, until it holds the shape of a life.

A wardrobe is not assembled. It accumulates — season over season, like sediment, until it holds the shape of a life.

The fourth campaign returns to the studio floor: raw calico, chalk lines, and the long silences of fitting. Twenty-two looks, three fabrics, one argument — that restraint is the most expensive material of all.

The fourth campaign returns to the studio floor: raw calico, chalk lines, and the long silences of fitting. Twenty-two looks, three fabrics, one argument — that restraint is the most expensive material of all.

COLLECTION Nº4

Selected Pieces

03 / 22 Looks

Look 01 — grey knit

The Ribbed Pullover

The Ribbed Pullover

Nº 01

Look 02 — draped skirt

The Draped Skirt

The Draped Skirt

Nº 02

Look 03 — camel wool

The Camel Wrap

The Camel Wrap

Nº 03

Lookbook

Drag — FW ’26

  • Look 04

    Look 04 — Poplin, bone

  • Look 05

    Look 05 — Crombie coat, ink

  • Look 06

    Look 06 — Suiting, slate

  • Look 07

    Look 07 — Eyewear, onyx

  • Look 08

    Look 08 — Shearling, umber

Seasonal story — white dress in light

Fig. 12 — Silk organza, exposure study

Seasonal Story — Winter Light

I. The North-Facing Room

Every collection begins in the same room — the one that never receives direct sun. Colour behaves honestly there. What survives the north light survives the season.

II. Thirty Metres of Organza

The silk arrived in one continuous bolt and was never cut against its will. Each look drapes from a single length, pinned rather than seamed, so the fabric keeps its memory of the loom.

III. What the Camera Kept

We photographed at dusk, on the last usable stop of film. The grain is not a flaw. It is the weather of that particular evening, kept.

Manifesto — 2026

We do not design for the photograph. We design for the tenth winter a garment will see.

We do not design for the photograph. We design for the tenth winter a garment will see.

We do not design for the photograph. We design for the tenth winter a garment will see.

— Livia Arle, Founder & Creative Director

— Livia Arle, Founder & Creative Director

Two figures, tonal styling
Figure against architecture

Field

Notes

Field

Notes

Field

Notes

Shot between fittings — the collection worn wrong, on purpose, to see where it forgives.

Fig. 08 — 09

Fig. 08 — 09

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Arle cuts clothing the way editors cut sentences — until only the necessary remains.

Arle cuts clothing the way editors cut sentences — until only the necessary remains.

Arle cuts clothing the way editors cut sentences — until only the necessary remains.

L’Officiel — March 2026

From the Magazine

P. 46 — 51

An Interview Conducted Entirely in the Fitting Room

An Interview Conducted Entirely in the Fitting Room

She answers questions with pins in her mouth, which means every reply arrives in fragments — half a sentence, a chalk line, the rest implied. It is, her studio director says, the only interview format she has ever agreed to.

Asked about trends, she gestures at a rack of muslins. “These will be wrong in five years, and then right again in fifteen. The garment must be patient.” The atelier around her agrees in silence, the way ateliers do.

What emerges over the hour is not a philosophy but a discipline: fewer seams, longer fittings, no decoration that cannot justify its weight. She ends the interview by taking the pins out — and saying nothing at all.

The Night Coat, worn at street level

Garment Study — 01

The Night Coat

Cut from double-faced wool at 640 grams a metre, the Night Coat is built to be worn for decades and repaired forever. Every seam is bound by hand; nothing is fused.

Cut from double-faced wool at 640 grams a metre, the Night Coat is built to be worn for decades and repaired forever. Every seam is bound by hand; nothing is fused.

Fabric

Double-faced wool, Biella

Construction

Hand-bound, unfused

Edition

120 pieces, numbered

Inside the atelier — mannequins and cutting tables

Behind the Scenes — Atelier, 6:42 AM

The toiles are dressed before the staff arrive. By the time the light reaches the cutting tables, the day’s argument is already pinned.

The toiles are dressed before the staff arrive. By the time the light reaches the cutting tables, the day’s argument is already pinned.

16 mm — unstaged

The House, Briefly

2011

2011

A single coat, made twelve times

The house opens with one pattern and a refusal to add a second until the first is beyond improvement.

2017

2017

The repair ledger begins

Every garment sold is entered into a ledger and repaired for life, free of charge, forever.

2026

2026

Issue Nº 04

The fourth campaign — twenty-two looks, three fabrics, one argument.

In Print

“The rare house whose restraint reads as generosity.”

“The rare house whose restraint reads as generosity.”

“The rare house whose restraint reads as generosity.”

Vogue Paris

“Clothes that behave like architecture — and age like it.”

“Clothes that behave like architecture — and age like it.”

“Clothes that behave like architecture — and age like it.”

System Magazine

“Arle does not release collections. It publishes editions.”

“Arle does not release collections. It publishes editions.”

“Arle does not release collections. It publishes editions.”

The Gentlewoman

Colophon

Credits

Creative Direction

Livia Arle

Photography

M. Okafor

Styling

R. Deniz

Casting

Haus No. 9

Set Design

Studio Marge

Film

Kodak 500T, 16 mm

Addresses

Paris

Paris

7 Rue de Braque, 3e — Flagship & Atelier

7 Rue de Braque, 3e — Flagship & Atelier

Tue — Sat, 11:00 – 19:00

Tokyo

Tokyo

2-14-6 Aoyama, Minato — By appointment

2-14-6 Aoyama, Minato — By appointment

Wed — Sun, 12:00 – 19:00

New York

New York

112 Crosby Street, SoHo — Salon

112 Crosby Street, SoHo — Salon

Mon — Sat, 11:00 – 19:00

Correspondence

atelier@arle.fr

Letters answered in order of arrival. Fittings by appointment only.

Letters answered in order of arrival. Fittings by appointment only.

+33 1 42 77 00 04

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