These are costumes that I created for a dance performance called “Birds at DAAD Tokyo”. The data flow was a little slow, so this is the only picture that I can post. More details at Tokyo.DAAD.de
Category: Women’s
Do you need a New Swim Suit?
My friend recently called me and said: ” Oh dear, I’m looking everywhere, I check all sites, but I can’t find the swim suit that I want!” “What do you want?” (I asked) And she: ” I want exactly the same one that I bought a few years ago. It’s the pefect size and the…
Inspired From These Ladies
from a vintage pattern, I just finished two dresses. Jersey is just so easy for the Summer, but with some detailes it gets really charming.
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…
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…
Made from Order
I just finished 4 more pieces for a French fashion brand. They ordered me to do the patterns and the sample pieces for their collection.
Blouse Top
I had some “fabric left overs” from my previous summer blouse and made this top with fringes around the collar from it. Never waist a piece of textile 🙂 V-neck at the front A tuck at the back for more volume and an elastic fringe just above the hemline And all around the collar: fringes
Melanie Uematsu 