Spring / Summer 2027Paris · Antwerp · BucharestCollection 07

ORVEIL

Model in a monumental oversized black wool coat with sculptural shoulders on a pale grey studio backdrop

Absence is a collection about what we remove. Fewer seams, larger shapes, no decoration. Cut flat in our atelier, finished by hand.

Lookbook / SS27

Absence.

Eight frames from the season. Drag, scroll or use the arrows. Tap any frame to enlarge it.

The pieces

Shop.

Sizes run oversized by design. Between sizes, take the smaller. Free returns within 14 days.

The atelier

Cut flat.
Then broken.

Dress form draped in black fabric beside paper pattern pieces, chalk and shears on a pale atelier table

ORVEIL began in 2019 in a rented room above a fabric wholesaler, with one rule: if a seam is not doing a job, it goes.

Founder and creative director Mara Vellis draws every silhouette as a flat pattern on paper, then lets the cloth argue with it. A coat shoulder can take eleven toiles before it holds its shape without a single pad.

Today a team of fourteen pattern cutters, tailors and finishers work in one room in Bucharest, in runs of no more than 120 pieces per style. When a style sells through, it is retired. We do not restock.

Rolls of black and white fabric on steel shelves above a long worktable in a minimalist atelier
  1. 01

    Subtract

    One cut where others use five. Linings, labels and trims only when they earn their place.

  2. 02

    Overbuild

    Hidden structure so the exaggerated shape survives a bus ride, a coat check and a decade.

  3. 03

    Make once

    120 pieces per style, numbered inside the hem. Then the pattern is archived for good.

Pattern cutters and tailors
14
Toiles for a single shoulder
11
Pieces per style, maximum
120
Hours to finish one coat
46

Paris · 29 September 2026 · Hall 6

Runway.

Thirty-two looks in nine minutes. No music, only the sound of the runway and the cloth.

Look 01

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