English · Online made-to-measure
Before the first piece of fabric is cut, a dress here has already been through several stages of shaping. You will hardly see any of them, and yet this is the part that decides whether it fits.
Step 1 — The paper pattern
We spend about one to two days building the shape in paper and correcting every line until it matches the design you chose. This shape is not taken from a size chart; it is built on your measurements. A seam a few millimetres off on paper becomes a visible fold in fabric. More on this step.
Step 2 — Building it on the stand
From a flat shape, the body of the dress is built up in three dimensions. A strapless bodice being worked into a fan of pleats directly on the stand is the kind of thing that is very hard to picture from a flat drawing. This is where we first see the dress the way you will see it in the mirror.
Step 3 — Draping on the fabric itself
The last stage is shaping directly on the material. Paper and the stand give us numbers and volume; only the fabric tells us how the real thing will fall on that shape. More on draping.
Why none of it can be shortened
Our dresses are sewn to your measurements with no allowance left to let out later, so the shape has to be right from the beginning — there is no way back. All three stages are done by the owner of the studio herself, which is why the schedule is counted backwards from your wedding date, and why we do not take rush orders from brides abroad.
