Follow the journey to building my clothing label - fabric shopping, pattern cutting, fittings, collections, photo shoots, runway shows - let's have fun with fashion and see what goes on behind the scenes: from an idea to a dress there is a long, but extremely rewarding way to go.
Light pink coral red degrade dress with a beige waistband and attachments, made for Miruna. Beige lace one sleeve shift dress custom made for Andreea. Beige silk cropped jacket with cyclamen pink trim at the front made for Cristina. Beige lace bustier dress with a coral lining and tulle underskirt custom made for Corina. Colorful .... read more
Black shiny pleated bustier dress with a metallic zipper at the back and a detachable tulle ruffle train, custom made for Logan. Light cotton wrap coat with big pleated shoulders made for Coca Zaboloteanu. These two black silk bow at bust sample dresses that I had at the atelier fit Delia so perfectly, I could .... read more
A long printed dress that I made for myself, to wear this summer. I absolutely love this pattern. You might remember it from this post, only the fabric type is different. Delia wearing her black and white printed mini-dress with a black waistband; a black-zebra printed jersey dress that my sister made for me. Colorful .... read more
Anca Buzea is a make-up artist from Bucharest and a good friend. I wanted to write a post about her for a while now, but all the work left me with no time for blogging (as you probably noticed by the few posts that I wrote recently – but I promise I will make up .... read more
I won’t be going to see my family for Easter this year, because I want to use the quiet time to work on the new collection: still searching and setting the mood, making sketches, thinking of the presentation that we will have this summer again, at Valiug. This year will be one of visible growth, .... read more
Beige lace bronze bow waistband dress with a bronze silk cotton lining made for Adriana. Light pink/grey draped one sleeve embroidery dress and a pleated and draped turquoise one strap dress (below), both custom made for Anca for her wedding party. Cyclamen pink pleated bust tulle dress made for Andreea. Pleated light yellow silk dress .... read more
I am glad to finally tell you about our new collaboration with the Fashion Place online store! You will be able to get a selection of my dresses directly from them. You can see details about all of them here. I am sooo excited! Hopefully I will be able to offer an even larger selection .... read more
The new Josephine bridal collection is ready and beautifully photographed by Andi Popescu, in our atelier/showroom in Timisoara. Melinda posed in a strapless ivory silk pleated bustier dress that I custom made for this Josephine photo-shoot. Anca Mihalache is responsible for making her look so pretty. And below you can see my favorite jewelry pieces .... read more
The new collection is almost ready, all I need to do is finish up a couple of pieces, find a blonde, tall, Nordic-looking model for the photo-shoot, get Andi to photograph the collection and that’s that. My mind right now however concentrates on what comes next: long colorful chiffon gowns for the presentation at Valiug that we will .... read more
Even though the weather was wickedly cold recently, they say that spring is soon to come. That’s why I actually decided to make a couple of silk printed bustier dresses from the leftover printed silk that I had at the atelier. These dresses are made in a 40-42 size and are one-of-a-kind samples. In two .... read more