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Published 5/10/20219 I had the pleasure of making Stella’s First Holy Communion dress. She is a cousin to one of my very first customers. Hand Painted Couture Girls Dress: COMMUNION dress style (It’s a full dress with a lace and rayon upper bodice and satin and tulle lower skirt.) This dress is part of the HOUSE OF GODFREY COLLECTION #5284 “Pink” Hand-Painted Bodice (Florals are also painted in green, lime, red,...
MISSION Our mission is to make the world more beautiful. More than an ideal, it is also very practical. When it comes to sharing life and all that it holds, we are on the same team. The throwaway mentality of a fast-fashion culture is not sustainable. Nor is it desirable. Georgio Armani once said, “The difference between fashion and style is quality.” Good quality lasts and is therefore always in style, because it...
Hand Embroidered Ukrainian Shirts and Dresses Published 20/23/2018 Here are just a few absolutely stunning photos of my sister’s family photoshoot. Each piece was embroidered by my mom. My grandmother sewed the adult vyshyvanka dress around 35 years ago and I sewed the girls’ vyshyvanka dresses and the baby’s baptismal gown, which my sister stuffed in his pants. The photos were taken by Indiana photographer Adina Brown-Selner. Her photography business is called...
Published 08/12/2014 Part 1 here My sister’s dress for the baptism was literally a last minute project. My sister came over last weekend, flipped through Burdastyle catalogs, chose a dress design, dug out fabric from my stash, and showed me what she wanted. (However, I highly recommended this pattern. I’ve wanted to make this dress since I first saw it in the Burdastyle catalog in February.) Since my sister’s body is...
What will the world look like in 20 or 30 years? Will people continue to wear disposable clothing? (The average life span of a garment is 3 years.) Will fast fashion companies exist? Will the fashion industry continue to be the #2 polluter in the world? These are the questions being asked in the fashion industry right now. Not only are fashion companies wasting millions of pounds of unsold garments...
Custom tailor shares her bespoke double breasted red plaid tartan coat made from Scottish Harris Tweed and soft French lamb leather details and buttons.