What to think about
before you come

Where you will be. A boardroom, a gala, a wedding you are not the bride at, an ordinary Tuesday. Each asks for something different.

Who you are there. Host or guest, the one speaking or the one listening, the founder or the family. Role shapes a garment more than taste does.

When. A date lets us work backwards. Without one, we work forwards and hope.

How you want to feel. This is the one people apologise for not knowing precisely. You do not need to. “Not overdressed” or “taken seriously” is already enough to design from.

A commission runs six to eight weeks across three meetings. If you know when you need to wear it, count backwards from there and allow a little room - the schedule moves with the design, the cloth, and how much the fitting asks us to change.

If the date is close, say so at the appointment. Some things can be simplified; others cannot be hurried without showing it.

The full process and timeline

Neckline, cloth, silhouette, technique - none of it needs deciding before you arrive. Those are answers, and the appointment is where the questions get asked properly.

If images have stayed with you, bring them. Not as instructions, but as evidence of what you respond to. What you rule out is often more useful than what you admire.

The date and setting of the occasion. Shoes you expect to wear, if you have them - hem length depends on them. Anything the garment has to work alongside: a jacket you already own, a piece of jewellery that matters, a dress code you have been given.

Nothing else is required. No knowledge of fabric or cutting, no fixed budget, no certainty about what you want.

An appointment lasts about an hour and a half, at the atelier in Shunyi or at an address of your choosing.

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