"Pauline, if we were to set off this autumn towards the English mists, what would you pack in your suitcase?" My answer was hardly surprising. I had just closed my laptop, my heart still swept by the moors of Wuthering Heights, which I had crossed with Jacob and Margot. The silhouettes of the indomitable Catherine will thus shape my winter. A happy coincidence… Tressé's new capsule collection feels as though it came straight out of the Yorkshire moors. Red in a short, ribbed mock-neck cardigan with golden clasps; black in a high-necked sweater, layered with a cut-out bolero and outlined with delicate ecru crochet—a reimagined antique lace.
“They've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” Catherine.
Now, let us speak of Tressé. Ketzia Chétrite was a private equity lawyer, having even passed the New York bar, while her brother Sivan worked in real estate. Yet fashion was already part of the family landscape: their mother, Évelyne Chétrite, founded Sandro, and their aunt, Judith Milgrom, Maje. As a child, Ketzia spent hours in her mother's studios sketching silhouettes. At ten years old, she attended a Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture show, a memory she still cites as a defining moment.
When the brother and sister decided to create together in 2021, the lockdown disrupted their plans and, paradoxically, gave them their concept: since travel was no longer possible, they would build their collections like the suitcases of an imaginary journey. The first headed to the South of France, followed by Spain, India, Italy, and other destinations. In each, about fifteen pieces blend ready-to-wear with home objects: dresses, blouses, jewelry, sandals, plates, or ceramics, all with the idea of finding what one would have loved to bring back in their luggage.
Tressé represents the three threads formed by Ketzia, Sivan, and their mother. Évelyne does not design the collections, but her passion for the art of entertaining remains a touchstone. Ketzia recalls growing up with the highly colorful tables her mother set for family meals, a talent itself inherited from their grandmother.
