This time its personal.
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Sounds dreamy, right?
Photo: Rasmus Skousen / Courtesy of La Bagatelle
In part, thats because Malling comes at it from a journalistic perspective.
I was always fascinated by the stories you could tell with clothing, she notes.
Shes also done a stint as the creative director for the fast fashion company Vero Moda.
House Proud: La Bagatelle’s LBD
One day I just wrote online, Do I know any tailors?
And then all these people wrote… Then I was kind of committed.
I had asked people, so I had to get back to them, and thats how it started….
House Proud: A lace-trimmed dress
It was very intuitive, and it was very much about doing something that was personal.
Textiles are Malene Mallings passion.
Chez La Bagatelle, everything starts with textiles.
Textiles are Malene Malling’s passion.
What I want to do is speak to the textilesto have a conversation with them, Malling says.
There arent many styles, but they are reimagined in different materials.
And each piece is named for a specific person.
Textiles are Malene Malling’s passion.
But thats how it is.
By house she means something that is habitable by people, not a Parisian maison.
Other motivators are storytelling and empowerment.
The studio shop
Feeling good is as important as looking good.
Im interested in womens internal lives, she says.
Mallings ability to find a middle way in fashion is actually abetted by digital media.
The house, Bagatel, from which the brand takes its name
At home with La Bagatelle.
The wordbagatellehas several meanings.
Taken together, the idea of something bijou and related to creative expression feels relevant.
At home with La Bagatelle.
All La Bagatelle pieces are made in Copenhagen.
At home with La Bagatelle.
All La Bagatelle pieces are made in Copenhagen.
