Wildheart Atelier Skirt
Our Atelier Skirt: inspired by memory, made for daydreams.
This special piece began in a sunlit flea market, where we discovered an antique French skirt—soft with age, rich with history, and sadly, too tattered to wear. We fell in love with it and brought it home, where it rested for years at the studio, waiting. At last, we’ve reimagined the design and the silhouette—preserving its romance while weaving in a little story of our own.
As a little girl, wildflowers grew in the woods near our house here on the West Coast. White fawn lilies nodded in the shade of trees, and vines of trumpet honeysuckle glowed like lanterns. I used to believe they were fairy skirts, left behind after midnight dances in the forest. (My mother told me never to pick them or the fairies wouldn't come back. I took that very seriously. I still do ;)) Our Atelier Skirt’s flowing lower panel is finished with a soft flounce inspired by those wild blooms, designed to move with you like petals in the breeze. The little ties along the flounce can be left loose for a more bohemian, undone look, or tied into small bows for a touch of old-world French charm.
We’ve added an easy elastic waistband with adjustable drawstring to make it as comfortable as it is flattering, and it’s designed to suit a wide range of shapes and sizes. And yes—there are pockets (because fairies need pockets)! Crafted from our signature custom-woven fabric, it drapes beautifully and feels as lovely as it looks—light, flowy, and endlessly wearable.
A skirt for everyday adventures, daydreams, and moonlit wandering— and perhaps even for dancing, if the fairies happen to be near :)
xo,
Danielle
About the Print:
Love is enough.
Introducing Wildheart — a centuries-old celebration of love in its truest form: untamed, devoted, and freely chosen. Created from a richly layered collage of historic tapestries spanning the 1400s through the 1700s, this lush print gathers verdant French landscapes, medieval banners, castle borders, and woven gardens from across the ages. At its heart is the beloved Unicorn Rests in a Garden tapestry, one of the most enduring and romantic images in medieval art. In it, the mythic unicorn — long a symbol of the untameable — rests within a garden enclosure. Though collared, the buckle is loose; though fenced, the boundary is low. The unicorn could leave if she wished, and yet she stays — a wild thing held not by hands, but by the heart. The banners that frame our design are also drawn from an antique tapestry, and bear the words in English and Latin:
No hand may keep a wild thing / Nulla manus ferum retinet
Yet the heart may hold it / Cor tamen id tenet
The rich, deep red trim carries the phrase Love is Enough, reconstructed from gilded lettering found in a Flemish painting from the 1500s. It’s our nod to the enduring belief — embraced as a motto by one of our great influences, artist William Morris — that love itself is both sustenance and shelter. Wildheart is our ode to love that honours freedom, cherishes wildness, and understands that what is chosen freely is what will always endure.
100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as bamboo and wood). Machine wash gentle or handwash and hang to dry. Iron to finish if needed.
Our Atelier Skirts are available in two size-runs. S/M will fit approximately size 4/10 and the L/XL will fit approximately size 12/18. We take all our measurements on a garment lying flat. So the circumference would be roughly double the listed number.
General approximate measurements — S/M: Length 93cm. Waist (flat) 39cm and with elastic stretched 61cm. L/XL: Length 93cm. Waist (flat) 42cm and with elastic stretched 65cm. Model is 5'7 for reference and is wearing the S/M.
Wildheart Atelier Skirt
Our Atelier Skirt: inspired by memory, made for daydreams.
This special piece began in a sunlit flea market, where we discovered an antique French skirt—soft with age, rich with history, and sadly, too tattered to wear. We fell in love with it and brought it home, where it rested for years at the studio, waiting. At last, we’ve reimagined the design and the silhouette—preserving its romance while weaving in a little story of our own.
As a little girl, wildflowers grew in the woods near our house here on the West Coast. White fawn lilies nodded in the shade of trees, and vines of trumpet honeysuckle glowed like lanterns. I used to believe they were fairy skirts, left behind after midnight dances in the forest. (My mother told me never to pick them or the fairies wouldn't come back. I took that very seriously. I still do ;)) Our Atelier Skirt’s flowing lower panel is finished with a soft flounce inspired by those wild blooms, designed to move with you like petals in the breeze. The little ties along the flounce can be left loose for a more bohemian, undone look, or tied into small bows for a touch of old-world French charm.
We’ve added an easy elastic waistband with adjustable drawstring to make it as comfortable as it is flattering, and it’s designed to suit a wide range of shapes and sizes. And yes—there are pockets (because fairies need pockets)! Crafted from our signature custom-woven fabric, it drapes beautifully and feels as lovely as it looks—light, flowy, and endlessly wearable.
A skirt for everyday adventures, daydreams, and moonlit wandering— and perhaps even for dancing, if the fairies happen to be near :)
xo,
Danielle
About the Print:
Love is enough.
Introducing Wildheart — a centuries-old celebration of love in its truest form: untamed, devoted, and freely chosen. Created from a richly layered collage of historic tapestries spanning the 1400s through the 1700s, this lush print gathers verdant French landscapes, medieval banners, castle borders, and woven gardens from across the ages. At its heart is the beloved Unicorn Rests in a Garden tapestry, one of the most enduring and romantic images in medieval art. In it, the mythic unicorn — long a symbol of the untameable — rests within a garden enclosure. Though collared, the buckle is loose; though fenced, the boundary is low. The unicorn could leave if she wished, and yet she stays — a wild thing held not by hands, but by the heart. The banners that frame our design are also drawn from an antique tapestry, and bear the words in English and Latin:
No hand may keep a wild thing / Nulla manus ferum retinet
Yet the heart may hold it / Cor tamen id tenet
The rich, deep red trim carries the phrase Love is Enough, reconstructed from gilded lettering found in a Flemish painting from the 1500s. It’s our nod to the enduring belief — embraced as a motto by one of our great influences, artist William Morris — that love itself is both sustenance and shelter. Wildheart is our ode to love that honours freedom, cherishes wildness, and understands that what is chosen freely is what will always endure.
100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as bamboo and wood). Machine wash gentle or handwash and hang to dry. Iron to finish if needed.
Our Atelier Skirts are available in two size-runs. S/M will fit approximately size 4/10 and the L/XL will fit approximately size 12/18. We take all our measurements on a garment lying flat. So the circumference would be roughly double the listed number.
General approximate measurements — S/M: Length 93cm. Waist (flat) 39cm and with elastic stretched 61cm. L/XL: Length 93cm. Waist (flat) 42cm and with elastic stretched 65cm. Model is 5'7 for reference and is wearing the S/M.
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