Le Tailleur

Le Tailleur sur Mars's own wedding-suit page numbers its process outright: "1 Choix du tissus," "2 Prise des mesures," "3 Les détails," "4 Essayage." That's an unusual thing for a made-to-measure shop to spell out on its marketing page rather than leave to a fitting-room conversation, and it goes a long way toward answering what a couple flying in for a wedding actually needs to know: how many appointments, and how far apart.

The shop runs 2 tiers, demi-mesure and sur-mesure, and the appointment count differs between them. Both start the same way. At the first appointment you try on a jacket and trousers close to your size so the tailor can read your shape and settle a silhouette, then choose lapel width, lining, buttoning and pocket shape once the cut is fixed. The site then says a fitting appointment happens 3 to 4 weeks after the order. For demi-mesure, that fitting does the finishing work directly: the trouser hem gets adjusted and any necessary alterations are made there, reading as the last stop before the suit is ready. For sur-mesure, the same 3-to-4-week fitting is followed by a third appointment about 3 weeks later to finalise the adjustments, which puts the process at roughly 6 to 7 weeks to reach that third appointment, by the page's own numbered account. The page never states how long after that third appointment the finished suit is actually collected.

That gap matters, because a separate section of the same page states a lead time as a flat total rather than a sequence of appointments. Headed "Délais de réalisation," it gives 3 to 4 weeks between the first appointment and delivery for demi-mesure, cut to 2 to 3 weeks with a paid rush option, and 2 to 3 months standard for sur-mesure, cut to 4 to 5 weeks rushed. The rush surcharge itself isn't priced anywhere on the site. That 2-to-3-month figure is longer than the roughly 6-to-7-week span the numbered steps describe for sur-mesure, and the page states both without reconciling them: one section counts appointments, the other counts total weeks to delivery, and they aren't the same account of the same tier. A separate FAQ on the shop's homepage adds a third figure again, an average of 2 to 4 weeks for "a made-to-measure suit" with no split between the 2 tiers at all. For a couple booking flights around this, the number worth planning against is the one stated outright as a total: 3 to 4 weeks for demi-mesure, 2 to 3 months for sur-mesure, either shortened for a fee if the date is close.

2 tiers, never called bespoke

Neither tier is described anywhere on the site, in French or English, as bespoke; the word doesn't appear at all. Demi-mesure adjusts an existing pattern to the client's own measurements and gets one fitting. Sur-mesure goes a step further: the same first-appointment measurements and trial garments feed into a toile, a test version cut in plain fabric and built specifically for that client, which gets fitted, adjusted and signed off before the real fabric is cut. That toile is the extra step driving the extra weeks, and it's the clearest technical line between the 2 tiers here: one recuts a template, the other builds and proves a pattern from scratch before committing the chosen cloth. The trial garments themselves come in 3 house cuts, Italian (fitted), English (sporty) and American (loose), which the couple discusses and adjusts at that first appointment before any decision is final.

Fabric comes in 3 families named on the site, wool, cotton and linen, with no mill or house brand named for any of them. A client can't bring in their own cloth either way: the shop states plainly it works only with its own stock, "pour garantir la qualité, la disponibilité, et surtout la possibilité de recommencer en cas d'erreur" (to guarantee quality, availability and above all the ability to start again in case of a mistake), so anything sourced abroad before the trip stays home.

There's no alteration service on this site for a suit bought somewhere else, no rental or hire option anywhere in the navigation or on the wedding page, and no mention of a travelling or visiting fitting for a couple who can't get to Lausanne. Every route through this shop ends the same way, in a demi-mesure or sur-mesure commission cut to be kept, not a suit hired for the day.

8 prices, and a shoe bundle

The wedding page prints 8 figures rather than the vague "price on request" much of this category defaults to. A 2-piece smoking (tuxedo) in demi-mesure starts at CHF 700; a 3-piece suit in demi-mesure starts at CHF 940. Move to sur-mesure and a 3-piece suit starts at CHF 1240, a 3-piece redingote (frock coat) at CHF 1530. Every figure is prefixed "dès" (from), so these are floors that move with fabric and detailing, not flat packages, and the page doesn't itemise what pushes a commission above the starting number.

A second set of 4 figures covers a bundle: add matching shoes and a belt and the site promises 10% off the whole order, with combined starting prices printed alongside the suit-only ones, CHF 1300 for the demi-mesure smoking, CHF 1560 for the demi-mesure 3-piece, and CHF 1900 for either the sur-mesure 3-piece or the sur-mesure redingote paired with shoes. The shoes and belt for that bundle aren't made in-house: the site names a partner workshop in Spain that builds them to the client's own colours and size. No VAT treatment, deposit or cancellation term is published anywhere on the page, or anywhere else on the site.

The couple behind Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche SARL is the legal name on the site's own copyright line, and it shares its name with something specific. According to the shop's about page, owner Harald Péclat and his wife Chyoung met while studying at the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and built a ready-to-wear label together called Nuit Blanche, winning several design prizes under it. Harald and Chyoung went on to run a production workshop and then a design studio in China before Harald settled in Lausanne to run this made-to-measure practice under a different trading name, Le Tailleur sur Mars. No founding year for the Lausanne studio itself is published anywhere on the site; what's dated in the shop's own telling is the earlier chapter of the story, in Paris and China, not the Lausanne address on the invoice.

Booking it from outside Switzerland

The shop takes appointments only. Its own FAQ is direct about it: "Non, notre atelier fonctionne uniquement sur rendez-vous" (no, our workshop operates by appointment only), which rules out walking in between flights on a whim. Every page checked, the homepage, the wedding page and the about page, is written in French, with no language switcher and no English version anywhere in the navigation. Nothing on the site states whether a consultation itself runs in English, so a foreign couple relying on that needs to confirm it directly before booking rather than assume it from the marketing copy.

Reviews or a portfolio gallery of finished wedding suits don't appear on the page either; the wedding page is text and pricing, not photographs of past commissions, so a visual sense of the house style has to come from asking directly or from the studio visit itself.

For a couple who wants a wedding suit built to their own measurements rather than picked off a rack, and who can work in French or confirm English service directly, Le Tailleur sur Mars is candid in exactly the place most of this category stays vague: what a fitting schedule looks like and what a suit costs before a single appointment is booked. What its own website won't settle is whether a fully custom suit takes 6 weeks or 3 months to finish, since the page states both without saying which one wins. Ask the atelier which number it's actually working from before flights get booked around it, and expect to bring nothing but your own measurements: the fabric has to come from their shelf, not yours.