Raised in Dordogne, France, Thièvre was immersed in garment-making from a young age through her mother’s craft.

She later studied Fashion Design at IFM in Paris, sharpening her understanding of technique a silhouette. Her early professional experience includes working at Hermès and Givenchy, where she refined her fluency in luxury construction before launching her label in 2021.

Her work has been recognized widely as a finalist at the Hyères Fashion Festival in 2019 and a winner of the Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris in 2024. Thièvre’s journey—intuitive, material-led, and grounded in generational craft—forms the backbone of her eponymous house.

Founded in 2021, Lucille Thièvre’s womenswear label is built on an intimate conversation with the body. Every garment begins with movement—how fabric twists, stretches, gathers, and traces form.

At the heart of the brand is a flou sensibility—drape, softness, and fluidity. Rather than manipulating the body, Thièvre allows materials to react, settle, and contour naturally. Jersey, her signature material, is chosen for its liberty and malleability: it follows the body rather than constraining it, revealing a silhouette shaped through ease, not force.

This intuitive approach shapes a vocabulary that feels sensual, sculptural, and deeply grounded in the feminine form.

Thièvre’s path was shaped by her mother, a mécanicienne modèle—the artisan who develops first prototypes, finalizes finishes, and ensures technical perfection. Lucille’s early childhood was spent in workshops, fittings, and fashion school shows; the hum of the sewing machine was a permanent soundtrack.

When Thièvre expressed the desire to become a designer at age ten, her mother subscribed her to Vogue. The images in those pages ignited a dream of belonging to a world of craft, fashion, and creation—a dream she pursues through discipline, intuition, and respect for technique.

Thièvre draws inspiration from the gestures of domesticity, reimagining and recontextualizing materials historically linked to the interior world like jersey, crochet, knit, velvet, and silk. Through her lens, these familiar, traditionally feminine mediums are transformed and reframed with modernity and strength.

These crafts carry shared memory—objects, techniques, and textures that bind generations of makers. Thièvre picks up these threads and rewrites them, weaving a contemporary narrative that honors the past while proposing a new language for the present.

Blue Velvet extends Lucille Thièvre’s practice into the realm of performance, where garment, body, and movement converge to form a singular choreographic language. Conceived in collaboration with choreographers and dancers Grégoire Schaller and Anna Chirescu, the project situates clothing not as costume, but as an active agent—one that shapes, constrains, reveals, and ultimately transforms the body in motion.

Developed during a residency at the Villa Noailles in January 2025, Blue Velvet draws from key elements of Thièvre’s vocabulary, notably the cut-out and the archetype of the fashion runway. Here, the runway is displaced from its conventional context and reimagined as a site of investigation: a study of walking, balance, and carrying—gestures shared by both fashion presentation and contemporary dance. Through these repeated actions, bodies merge, support, and absorb one another, producing hybrid silhouettes that oscillate between the human and the sculptural.