Mabille

Alexis Mabille presented a capsule of eveningwear in a mirrored gallery in a Paris passage. Set up as an intimate salon de couture, it was a charming frame for the designer’s robes de soirée. Called Evening Essentials, it was a concise…

Just a few weeks ago, Alexis Mabille sent out a rainbow of a couture show that pretty much had something for every taste and type. For fall he distilled that concept into about 20 looks that nodded to couture inspirations, colors and cuts,…

Drawing on couture to create a ready-to-wear capsule whose colors, lengths, and flourishes can be adapted on request has proved a winning strategy for Alexis Mabille. And since he’s had to turn down clients unwilling to wait for couture…

Alexis Mabille has a booming sideline in interior decor—to wit, his festive, maximalist reboot of Le Boeuf sur le Toit, or the Saint Tropez edition of Cipriani (soon to be followed by LA). He juggles constantly, and says it’s a godsend that…