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Vera Lin at the house
The house
Founded on a
kitchen table, 1998.
Vera Lin cut her first gown on a kitchen table in Shoreditch. Twenty-eight years later the house dresses opera openings and quiet weddings alike, and still cuts every pattern by hand.
We are deliberately small: one cutter, two seamstresses, a bookkeeper who has been here since the beginning.
What we hold to
I.
Cloth first
A gown starts with how the silk falls, not with a sketch.
II.
One client at a time
The salon takes a single booking per evening. Yours.
III.
Made to be re-worn
We alter our own gowns for life, without charge.
IV.
The atelier
Above the salon: two long benches, a wall of thread, and the pattern archive going back to the first gown.
Visit by appointment
Cloth resting in the atelier
SILK
Evening wear · Cut to order
9 Albemarle Street, London · Thu to Sat, by appointment
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