Metropolis Revises Its Classics in Drama Tweed

I told you that you hadn't heard the last of this pretty jacket. And for this new version of the Metropolis sewing pattern, I decided to pull out all the stops!

The little black jacket

The inspiration for this pattern was the little black jacket. It is the trademark of the house of Chanel, an emblematic garment, a true fashion signature. It marked the second wind of Gabrielle Chanel, and its design, so avant-garde for the time, has not lost its splendor. The designer had set her sights on tweed, a fabric associated with the masculine wardrobe, and her jacket was distinguished by its clean lines, the sharpness of the line. The house of Chanel has reinterpreted this garment many times according to its different designers, and a book has even been dedicated to it.

Drama queen in Drama tweed, Metropolis gets into the game

Metropolis is not meant to be a dupe of a Chanel jacket. While there are some markers like the absence of a collar, the boxy volume, the marked shoulder, I chose to play on the buttoning and added bands to emphasize the cut and more strongly mark the look. But the hunter becomes the hunter, and when we received our magnificent black Drama tweed at the workshop, I immediately knew that there would be a meeting between this fabric and this pattern.

And if you play this card, you might as well go all out. Once the jacket was sewn, it was splendid but I wanted to emphasize the so Coco spirit of the garment. So I added a black braid embroidered with gold, to emphasize the neckline, the very particular Metropolis crossover, the bottom of the sleeves and the pretty pockets.

To embellish your jacket in this way, you will need 3 m of braid, mine is 1.5 cm wide and unfortunately I no longer remember where it comes from, but you can easily find very beautiful braid in haberdasheries. I had hesitated to simply put a satin black ribbon, the material of which would have contrasted nicely with the fluffy aspect of the Drama tweed, but I did not have any of this width in the workshop.

Sewing Metropolis in this soft tweed, lighter than our Scott cotton tweed, poses no problem: the ease is impeccable, combining the shoulder pad / sleeve head cigarette and tweed band does not impact the rendering... In short, crazy love for my new jacket!

How to wear your tweed jacket

For these photos I paired my new sewing with my Mia blouse in Jazz cappuccino jacquard , with jeans and a belt with a big buckle. My makeup is discreet, my outfit rather low profile, the precious touch of Metropolis is all the more underlined. In L'Œil Fauve , we propose a series of looks around the little black jacket: in a sailor's shirt, with plays of materials, in duo with my Luz Rose Shocking jumpsuit ... I feel that I am going to love playing with my Drama Tweed jacket!

I'll see you very soon for a new episode of the Maison Fauve podcast , which will warm up your winter wardrobe :)