Exclusive Interview with Sarah Colfer from Little Bevan

“Chances are in case you are searching out luxurious clothes to your little flower women and web page boys, you’ve got got stumble upon Little Bevan. If you haven’t, I am certain you’ll need to check those excellent designs in greater element. Sarah Colfer first offered the designs from Little Bevan to brides to be at The National Wedding Show in November 2004.”
‘In the early days I changed into a one-girl-band, designing, reducing and stitching the whole thing myself; making plans bespoke clothes for bridal customers and their households from my sitting room,’ explains Sarah. ‘The Little Bevan boutique opened withinside the wintry weather of 2007, and now we’re a bustling crew of ‘elves’, operating carefully collectively and generating the whole thing from our basement studio withinside the coronary heart of London.’

Exclusive Interview with Sarah Colfer from Little Bevan

Style & the Bride changed into handiest too glad to seize up with Sarah Colfer from Little Bevan to talk about among different matters the a while she caters for, how lengthy it’d take to create a bespoke outfit and her new patterns for 2016.

Sarah, welcome to Style & the Bride. What is the tale at the back of the name?

I grew up in what I describe as a ‘Blue Peter’ family – in that our mom advocated us to create all forms of games, toys and garments! She saved all her outstanding garments from the ‘50s & ‘60s and we speedy discovered to tweak those to healthy ourselves. Sadly she died after I changed into nevertheless younger, and so Little Bevan is called after her, in reminiscence of her gentle, creative spirit.

What is your style background?

I am definitely self taught, aside from fundamental faculty stitching classes! I actually have discovered all beneficial skills ‘on-the-spot’ even as operating for small agencies once I graduated from University (awesome fun, now no longer very useful!) and particularly at some point of my time at the posh womenswear fashion dressmaker Amanda Wakeley.

What made making a decision to release the company?

While jogging the bridal room at Amanda Wakeley, I changed into continually requested for desirable tips of in which to locate cute attire for flower women, to healthy the fashion and nice in their bridal gowns. At that time, it appeared to be a completely under-provided area of interest withinside the fashion dressmaker get dressed world, and I continually desired to run my personal impartial business.

Do you entice a specific sort of bride?

We entice a discerning bride who certainly cares approximately each element for her best wedding; who’s searching out youngsters’s clothes to beautify the fashion and nice of her personal bridal get dressed – garments to treasure for the youngsters who’re maximum unique to her and the marriage family.

Do you observed there’s a signature Little Bevan look?

My designs have a sensitive touch, and an stylish silhouette, with signature layering of sheer organza, tender silks and chantilly lace, frequently the use of tonal colorings. There is a quintessential ‘englishness’ to the patterns, which can be stimulated through the posh and romance of historic costume, and my love of classical artwork and literature.

Please permit me realize the a while which you cater for.

We layout for babies, women, boys, intricate teens (and tomboys!) and younger grownup bridesmaids too. I started with simply making youngsters’s garments, however now we cater for all a while, in order that a bride will have a lovely continuity of favor and fabric for all her attendants’ clothes.

It may be hard to locate a ‘grown-up’ get dressed and outfit for a ten yr vintage bridesmaid and pageboy. What do you suggest?

It is crucial to well known the character of the kid in deciding on an outfit layout, even as nevertheless suitable and in-preserving with the bride’s fashion, in order that they love sporting it and definitely experience their function at the marriage. To deliver a greater grown-up look, we are able to hold a fashion a bit greater simple, well fitted, and with easy lines. And then special a while may be connected collectively, giving a steady look, through matching fabric and colored trims.

If any individual desired you to make some thing bespoke for them is that viable? How lengthy does it take?

A bespoke outfit is a final desire for a unique event. We have many layout samples at our Pimlico store, which offer tips of patterns we are able to make with bespoke colorings and trims. And I like to layout a brand new couture outfit, operating carefully with a bride’s ideas. This cautious procedure takes a piece longer than for our conventional collections – sourcing unique fabric, buttons, and details, so it I quality to begin making plans 4-6 months earlier than the event. Just currently for this wintry weather season, we created history pageboy clothes, made as near as viable to resemble a bit boy depicted in an 18th Century Romney portrait – this changed into especially unique to do, as the kid withinside the photo is the boys’ awesome-awesome-awesome-grandfather!

What are your new patterns for 2016?

Our classics are ever famous and continually saved clean with a desire of bespoke detailing for each bride. Our Georgian blue ice silk dupion and sensitive blush red are on-fashion colorings for 2016 spring/summer. And I actually have introduced to the layout variety stimulated through ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, which have been proven at the catwalk on the recent ‘Brides The Show’. Reflecting the mystical appeal of fairy-land, our new attire are made in ombre silk georgette, and light-as-air organza, all adorned with hand-made silk flowers, and accessorized with an identical fairy wand!

What’s subsequent for Little Bevan?

I’m very thrilled with the approaching release of our new modern website. I can’t await the brand new season’s occasions in which we’ll be showing: The National Wedding Show, Chosen Wedding Fair, London Bridal Fashion Week; and I’m searching ahead to the innovative collaborations and provoking layout initiatives that hold me busy!