Visit The Studio

We are open! The next private appointment spaces at the studio are April 11th, give us a call on 07841 71887 to come and see the dresses!

Introducing The Dress Cabin

We're very happy to introduce our new 'Dress Cabin'.

Those of you who have visited the studio for bespoke dresses have been wonderful working around the cutting table and pins but now we have a dedicated area just for you in the form of our little wooden cabin.

Open on Saturdays by appointment only, you'll be able to try on and view our bridal collections, cocktail dresses and accessories. There's plenty of space to look at your dress in comfort, have a cup of tea and relax whilst we discuss all your ideas one to one.
You are also welcome to try on the ready to wear dresses and can purchase items on the day if you fall in love with something.

We look forward to seeing you at the cabin, for appointments contact alexandra@alexandra-king.com.
Consultations for bespoke dresses are charged at £50 on booking and fittings are £50 per session.

A Day At The Studio ....

The day starts with going through emails, ordering fabrics and basically being glued to this desk for a couple of hours. As you can see my desk (a lovely solid oak, brass handled beast with a green leather top salvaged from a vets skip) is rather covered in stuff, sketchbooks, to do lists, paints, calculators, lollipop wrappers etc. This part of the studio is not tidy.

Then the post arrives with fabric orders, zips, trimmings and everything we need to make dresses with. We have quite a few gentlemen callers at the studio door with packages for us. (sorry!)

 Sometimes our lovely customers hand deliver the fabric they have personally selected in lovely wrappings.

Today we needed to source lace for a consultation later this week so Anna and Me selected options that would work for the design and ordered a few more laces.

Eventually it's time to start work on the actual dresses, laying out and cutting the silk. These colours are part of the prettiest bridesmaids collection for a wedding this year, I can't wait to share it.

 Anna sews the bodices of the dresses, super carefully .................... whilst we discuss each stage, seam finish and how it fits.

Dresses we are working on get added to rail, the rail is nearly full at the moment.

And finished dresses get packed in their white boxes ready for shipping to the other side of the world. Today dresses are off the the US and Australia.

So there is our day in the studio, I'm still here typing away and working on sketches and lists for tomorrow. We will share more days with you from time to time xxx