Camellia came to us last year with an incredible idea for her wedding gown and we were really excited to get going and start making it for her. But after much deliberation she realised she didn't want a floor length dress; it's a style she never wears and knew she wouldn't
Faye had an awesome idea for a bespoke wedding dress when she first asked us two years ago! But purely by chance she ended up finding something for so much of a bargain it was impossible to turn it down. We did some alterations for the fit and tweaked the silhouette slightly, but it was pretty much sorted. But
When Helen asked us to make her wedding dress a year and a half ago, she told us about some fabric she had which she wanted us to be able to incorporate into the design. It's something we love doing, it is always immense fun for us when there is something to work around, but this
It's been a pretty busy summer of weddings and while we wait for all the lovely photographs of our bespoke brides to start coming through we wanted to take a moment to talk about veils. We made a custom version of our Lady Stardust veil for Jess (blog piece coming soon!) and the way it captured the
What a treat this was for us to work on. A longtime friend of ours, Jess, asked us to make her dress and when she showed us her ideas we couldn't wait to get started. She showed us inspiration images from Alexander McQueen with dark beading and embroidered stars and we instantly
The I Feel Love Skirt is one of our favourite pieces hanging up on the rail in our studio. Every now and again we see it catching the light and its brings us such joy (if a little distracting!)It is made from nearly 8 metres of a silk chiffon which has a very fine gold metallic stripe running through.
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams" is a very appropriate title for this exhibition. This weekend we finally made it down to the V&A to see it and we were not disappointed. We had previously travelled to Paris in 2017 to see the same exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Last month we were lucky enough to collaborate with some wonderfully talented people to shoot the newest additions to our collection. We make everything in our London studio so it seemed to make sense to showcase some of the city we love alongside our new pieces. We both love the Barbican
It's no big news that veganism and the disposable plastics revolution have had a huge effect on people's mindset and changing attitudes the past couple of years. But with the recent exhibition at the V&A, "Fashioned from Nature", it inspired us to take a closer look
Designing our first collection was never going to be an easy task, not for lack of ideas, but because we had far too many! We love making bespoke dresses for our brides and over the years it's meant coming across lots of ideas and fabrics that have inspired us and led to a lot of "this would
Designing our first collection was never going to be an easy task, not for lack of ideas, but because we had far too many! We love making bespoke dresses for our brides and over the years it's meant coming across lots of ideas and fabrics that have inspired us and led to a lot of "this would
Starting a new bespoke wedding dress is always an exciting time at Paper to Lace but with Ruth it was an extra special honour for us as she's been a close friend of ours for many years. We began as we often do by looking at pictures of dresses Ruth liked and talking about her inspirations and the