Dear Shaded Viewers,
Alice Lemoine began her career as a knitwear designer working for Rick Owens, it was here that she was encouraged to renounce her knitting machine and work solely by hand. She furthered this skill in the creation of her partially eponymous label, Le Moine Tricote, which is now in its fourth season. The entire production is hand knit in her atelier in Paris.
The young designer described how she works solely through intuition and doesn't extract inspiration from a specific source or theme. Each season she orders a vast selection of yarns in colours and textures that appeal to her. She then experiments with different techniques until she achieves something she is happy with. Only then will she move onto the body and figure out the shapes and silhouettes that will form the garments. Le Moine Tricote literally translates to English as "The Monk Knitting", and with such an instinctive, ritualistic method of working, it is a very fitting description of the brand.
