• Zoé makes embroidery art with locally sourced materials
• She works with the Lunéville technique and brass
• Collaborations are an important part of her approach

Zoé Pignolet creates delicate, 3D forms that blur the line between embroidery and sculpture. She works from a former silk-weaving workshop in the Pentes district, once used by the city’s historic Canut weavers. “I am truly grateful to be able to work with silk and embroidery in a culturally rich space where weaving once took place,” she says. Zoé fell in love with embroidery during an open day at the school and graduated from ESAA Duperré in Paris. Before opening her studio in 2021, she worked for haute couture houses such as Chanel, Dior and Saint Laurent. Inspired by nature, antique herbariums, Impressionism and the tapestries of Dom Robert, each of Zoé's pieces begins with a word or a walk, and takes shape gradually through drawing, volume and stitching.