Once upon a time in Gamarra…

Edwin, one of Misericordia’s cutters, is wearing a jacket called Los Maestros, a beautiful jacket which we created in the Gamarra workshop.

On the white board, a glimpse of Misericordia’s secret plans. This top-secret document gives confectioning indications, and demonstrates both the level of professionalism and rigour within the workshop. Please note, to the right of the board, Aurelyen’s brilliant sketch, a document which is today being preciously conserved in our archives.

Here we can see Misericordia’s only computer in the Gamarra workshop. All the administration was donne on this small desk, and to the left, we can see the area where we deposited all our clients’ cases, and where we prepared all the orders. At the beginning of our adventure, we had an exclusive partnership with DHL, but little by little, we cut our ties with this often expensive and at times unreliable partner.

On this picture, we can see Leandro at the very back of the room, cutting the pieces for various models on the table, with Pathy next to him, sorting out different pieces. Rosa, on the left, is sewing hooded sweaters, with Erminda, to the right. At the very front, Cythia is folding clothes destined for sales.

The pieces on the table were cut for a jacket called Joker. On this picture, we can only see the pieces for one of the sides of this jacket. We can then understand why this jacket is composed of fifty pieces, giving the sewers complexe and sophisticated assembly work. For the creation of this jacket, all the seperate pieces were put on a table, and each worker would come to collect them, piece by piece, to assmble them and construct the jacket bit by bit.

Here, Melina is working on a coat.
Ici on voit Melina en train de préparer une veste.

The simple and ordinary tools with which we try to work wonders.

On the cases above, we can see some of Misericordia’s biggest clients, such as Citadium in Paris, and United Arrows and Baycrews in Japan. All the confections for their orders were completed in this tiny workshop in the centre of Lima.