A couture piece, medieval design wedding dress made by Rossetti - alternative bridal gowns. The dress is fully lined and the corset is fully boned. The fabric is a crushed velvet in teal with burgundy and gold details. A corseted back allows a UK sizing from 12 to 16.
As a designer and seamstress for alternative wedding dresses, theatre, TV, film and dance, this is a dress made to exceptional quality.
Theresa Blake trained at Wimbledon School of Art in
period costume cutting and construction for film, television and the West End
stage (ballet and opera). By combining this early training with her later
experience in several major bridal houses, "Alternative" couture
bridalwear design was inevitable. Today the resulting bespoke quality wedding
gowns, corsets and ballet costumes are of an extremely high standard, perfect finish, and fit like a
glove. Enchanting, often coloured, couture wedding dresses and bridal corsets,
inspired by Pre-Raphaelite art, Medieval and eighteenth-century historical
fashion, can be commissioned from a designer who also produces totally unique
one-off contemporary designs.
Theresa divides her
time between designing/ making bespoke wedding gowns for the Rossetti label,
and constructing costume for prestigious ballet companies and award-winning
competition ballet dancers. More recently, owing to frequent requests, she has
started to provide individually tutored one-to-one classes in tutu
construction: cutting, making and embellishment.
Credits include
tutu-making and costume-making for the Royal Ballet's principal ballerinas; The
Royal Shakespeare Company; for film and television costumiers and for Cameron
Mackintosh. Theresa has made headdresses, jewellery and tutus for major ballet
companies including English National, Scottish and Moscow Classical Ballet. She
has worked with top couture bridal designers including Basia Zarzycka and Ritva
Westenius. The potential of positions with Vivienne Westwood and Elizabeth
Emmanuel in the late 1990's inspired her to establish the Rossetti label and
follow her own design inspirations in bridalwear, while maintaining her
connections with the theatre.