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Corsetier and Lingerie designer. Specialising in Bespoke corsetry and vintage style foundation garments. Lightweight girdles and heavy boned tightlace corsets. Beautifully handmade one-offs, delicate silk lingerie sets, currently learning bra-making. I can also do bespoke costume design, recently making outfits for the backing vocalists for Kylie Minogue's Love Kylie X 2008 tour. I collect a range of high quality antique trimmings including chantilly lace, mother of pearl buttons, beads, art deco buckles, etc. which I use on my pieces to give them an authentic look. Risque and high-end Fetish wear, Victorian punishment corsets, Cutting edge fashion. Designs inspired from Victorian bordello's up to the 1950's, to modern styles, all concentrating on transforming the bodies silhouette.

Corsets: an object of beauty Confidence, power, submission, an instrument of torture. Inspiration- John Willie's Bizarre, antiques, early erotic photography, Art Deco fashion, unique style. Jan Saudeck, Floria Sigismondi, Joel Peter Witkin, Ellen Von Unwerth, Fakir Musafar, Natural beauty, Dramatic, sinister glamour, obsession, bondage, disguise, nature, loneliness, sadomasochism. Dadaism, surrealism, expressionism. Hans Bellmer, Paul Mc Carthy, Klimt, Matthew Barney, Beardsley, excentricity.

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