THE FOUNDER

Guylaine Tilleau

As a fashion editor, I’ve always loved hunting for ethnic fabrics on my travels. I enjoyed designing dresses and tops—at first just for myself.

My friends loved these very personal pieces and quickly placed orders with me.

Building on this success, I decided to develop a concept: to design a small collection based on the idea of creating one-of-a-kind pieces using ethnic fabrics, while relying on Moroccan craftsmanship for the hand-finished details.

Offering women a unique product from the trip, revisited in a bohemian spirit luxury hand made.

Each saree with a length of 5 meters is visually studied according to its motifs, in order to create the model that will optimize and showcase the beauty and richness of its prints. Only two models-and two different models-are achievable in each saree.

The first step is to place the sari on a cutting table, so once the designer has decided on the model, the patterns are applied to the fabric and cut one by one, according to the model chosen.

The pieces are then entrusted to the seamstresses in order to be assembled and bordered on the needle of a thread of Sabra, vegetable silk traditionally used for the ennobment of Moroccan djellabas

In the continuity of the initial collection which creates unique pieces from ancient Indian saris in silk crepe I fell under the spell of the South American poncho in pure alpaca wool.

This poncho / ruana was woven at 4000 m altitude by a community of women who live in the Andes Mountains in South America with their herd of alpacas.

Every year, before the summer (in November for us), these Aymara women shear and collect 3 kilos of wool per animal (a poncho weighs +/- 700 gr).

The wool is spun by hand and then woven on an ancient wooden loom with pedals to create this garment, which is a symbol of the ancestral South American clothing tradition.

The color is pure, it has not been dyed.

There are 22 natural shades of fleece in alpacas.  

The poncho HAND.SO.ON is a rare, authentic piece, full of history, a piece designed in a noble material thanks to the know-how of these women who preserve the gestures of yesteryear.

A beauty, a garment, a stole that one never gets rid of.