Category: Melanie’s Projects
This is the selection of my personal projects.
King Kong and Ann in Ueno Zoo
This is the classic. King Kong and Ann over New York And this is the modern version; my little one in Ueno Zoo. Her dress is from last year, getting a little shirt-short, but drawing still a lot of attention… Don’t miss Ueno’s Gorilla family
Just know what to do….
Marlene Dietrich was celebrated for her legs and for drawing attention to them, but one of her famous quotes was: Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them. Voila! Here we go!! It’s not the question of HAVING beautiful legs, it’s the question of HOW to MAKE them LOOK…
Time to smock…
I went to Nippori last week and again I found soo many (too many) nice textiles. I couldn’t leave this one behind. It is a Japanese cotton in black with a print of white stripes and golden dots. It happened that I changed the whole style of the pattern that I had in mind and…
Invited to attend a Wedding
We got invited to aWedding this weekend and I made a very simple, but pretty dress with a jacket for my girl. The dress is an A- line cut of taffeta with a buttonline at the front, three braids on every side and an underlayer from white cotton with a lace on the hem. The…
Cars…
Boys love this movie And my little client hopefully loves his new bag set for his first class at elementary school!
Cashmere, please!
Yes, snow today in Tokyo… but even these Winter days can be charming, if you feel nicely dressed! I met my charming client today and she felt nicely dressed afterwords… with her new cashmere coat that we both developed together. A real original ordermade garment. She ordered a cashmere coat in chocolate brown and really…
The Dress for the Pianist
Recently a wonderful order reached me… the Russian Pianist Anastasya Evsina ordered a black dress for her upcoming concerts in Japan! The work included some special tasks. For Example “nothing else than natural textiles to avoid any uncomfort while playing and much space to breath”. Also the fitting of the corsage, the length of the…
Winterdresses
The year 2013 starts really busy, but very very interesting 😉 Here are just some winter dresses that I made of wool. A short sweater wasn’t enough for these temperatures and I realised that I’m much easier dressed, when I just wear a dress over a leggins with boots -ha! Black wool with felted…
A Green Day
a Green Salwar Pants, made by Chris and a green striped shirt for Rio.
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