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Vol. IX Atelier Weekly cover shows Smith's inspiration photos from the Eiffel Tower and his ear on a bulletin board under fluorescent light.
Atelier Weekly Vol. IX — Essay: 2005 Photo Shoot at Tour Eiffel as Study for Paintings
After completing the Revelations in Red series, Stacy Stewart Smith felt called toward something more architectural. A 2005 trip to Paris — and photographs taken at the Tour Eiffel —... Read more...
The cover of Atelier Weekly Vol. VI Shows a young Black Male and a middle-aged white woman on an airplane seated in the same row.
Just Sarah and Me — A Short Story by Stacy Stewart Smith
On a hot August day in 1987, standing in the terminal at O’Hare airport with a few hundred dollars and an acceptance letter from FIT, Stacy Stewart Smith confronted the... Read more...
Menswear Couture Manifesto by Stacy Stewart Smith cover shows a briightly liit entrance to a fashion runway wiith parchment and quill at the forefront.
Menswear Couture Manifesto — by Stacy Stewart Smith
True style is the costuming of the mind. Stacy Stewart Smith’s Menswear Couture Manifesto argues that couture belongs to men — and that dressing well is an act of cultural... Read more...
Atelier Weekly shows a handsome wooden award box with a jeweled gold award sitting on navy blue velvet upon a whiite table iin a room.
The Heart of a Couturier
Behind a Wedgewood Blue door on Chicago’s South Side, a teenage Stacy Stewart Smith began his couture education under the instruction of Evelyn Brown — a woman who had worked... Read more...
Atelier Weekly Vol. I shows a designer in a labcoat with tape measure areound his neck peering behind a curtain of a menswear fashion show as male models walk on a runway.
Atelier Weekly Vol. I — The Real Price Designers Pay to Make Luxury Apparel
Friends told Stacy Stewart Smith his prices had reached luxury brand levels. So he opened his cost sheets. What he found made him sick to his stomach — and convinced... Read more...
Atelier Weekly Vol. IV cover showing courtroom and copy cats, judge and witnesses. by Stacy Stewart Smith
Atelier Weekly Vol. IV — Artificial Intelligence Just May Become the Fashion Police
From the knock-off era of the 1970s to the Battle of Versailles in 1973, Stacy Stewart Smith traces the history of design theft — and argues that AI may finally... Read more...
Cover of Atelier Weekly Vol. X shows a sea landscape with the setting sun, a boat, a lion and a floating white gowns in the sky.
Vol. X— Whispers of Women
A dream of floating above a sailing vessel, a marble edifice carved with beasts and figures, and a silk chiton descending from heaven signals the return of a gift —... Read more...
Cover of Atelier Weekly shows middle-aged couple wearing couture/bespoke tailored garments and accessories in front of a skyline landfill of disposed apparel.
Atelier Weekly Vol. III — Great Garment Expectations?
Stacy Stewart Smith reflects on how his mother named her coats and dressed with intention — and what that generation understood about quality that we have since lost. Read more...