Peter Cohen

Cohen takes his design cues from the fabrics he chooses and from the women who wear his clothing. He sources his fabrics from Italy, France and Switzerland, opting to browse fabric showrooms in New York or scout for new resources at Premiegravere Vision in Paris.

“I’m a buyer of expensive fabrics,” Cohen said. “It’s one of my pleasures. I buy novelties from the French and the Swiss, and I buy base goods from Italy. The Italians know how to make the simplest thing, the finest stripe, in the most pure way. The French make lots of fabulous folly. But actually the real couture houses are Swiss.”

The entire collection is produced in Cohen’s Los Angeles headquarters, with each piece made individually by a team of 35 staff sewers under the direction of Production Manager Rudy Cervantes. In all, Cohen employs 45 people at his Washington Boulevard design studio. The cost of in-house production is high, but it allows him to oversee the
quality of his collection. “I wouldn’t know how to do it any other way,” he said. “There are costs that could be avoided, but there are conveniences that make it worthwhile.”

Peter Cohen

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