An Atelier Limité Artist Edition is a fixed, numbered run of garments made in collaboration with a single artist. Every piece carries a unique number, the artist's name on the label, and a certificate of edition. When the run is closed, the number on every certificate is permanent.
The word edition comes from fine-art printmaking, a tradition in which an artist produces a fixed number of impressions, numbers each one, and signs the last to mark the edition complete. Owning piece 047 of 080 means something specific and verifiable: that exactly 79 other people hold a piece from the same run, and that no more will ever be made.
The anatomy of an edition
Every Atelier Limité edition has five defining components. Together, they distinguish it categorically from a conventional clothing release.