Elsa Barois

Maison Elsa Barois – Modular wedding dresses, Lille

For ten years, Elsa Barois has been designing wedding dresses that follow the day, not the other way around.

The idea: you don’t choose one fixed dress, you choose a set. A top, a skirt, and pieces you add or take off: cape, sleeves, veil, overskirt. The cape for the ceremony, the sleeves for the cocktail hour, a lighter dress for dancing. Little by little, you lighten up.

What we offer

• Six modular collections: a new collection comes out every year. The latest are CALANQUES (graphic and structured, shot in Marseille) and SAINT-RÉMY (freer and more fluid, born in the Alpilles). Every piece combines with the others, so you build an outfit that looks like you.
• Made-to-measure: Elsa starts from a blank page with you. Sketches, fabric choices, fittings: the dress is built together, from start to finish.
• Civil ceremony collection: shorter, simpler outfits for the town hall, in the same spirit.
• In-house alterations: every dress is altered and fitted in our Lille atelier by our team of seamstresses, right up to the final fitting.
• Accessories: capes, sleeves, veils, birdcage veils, tulle and lace overskirts.
• Colorimetry by Elsa: a one-to-one colour analysis session using fabric draping (clothing, make-up, hair, accessories). Elsa is trained in image consulting.

The atelier

Everything happens at our showroom-atelier, 1 rue de Denain in Lille, by appointment. Our lace comes from a renowned Calais-Caudry lace house, and all finishing is done on site.

Why choose us

• A dress designed for the whole day, not just for the ceremony photos
• One outfit, several looks
• A designer by your side from the first appointment to the last alteration
• Made and fitted here, in Lille

Book a first fitting: we’ll look at your day together and create the dress that goes with it.