by hand

Historically, traditionally, in both haute couture and prêt-à-porter (ready-to-wear) fashion design and production, there was a dichotomy of two methods; a clear division between fashion made manually, by hand (manus) and that which was machine-made (machina). Today, many years after the term “fashion-tech” was coined, the lines between handmade and machine-made have become blurred. A blending and…