Inside Bianca Saunders’ studio: the meticulous craft of custom tailoring
A new film reveals the precise choreography behind bespoke commission work at the British designer's studio, from initial conversation through drawing, pattern, toile and fitting to finished piece.
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The genesis of a Bianca Saunders commission unfolds as ritual: conversation first, then the pencil moving across paper, the pattern laid and redrawn, the toile draped and fitted, each decision considered in isolation and as part of a whole. A new film captures this choreography with the clarity of someone watching a craftsperson at work, the studio rendered not as glossy theatre but as the intimate space where precision and intuition meet.
Bianca Saunders has long built her practice around this dialogue between maker and wearer. Her tailoring emerges from a singular vision of how the body moves within cloth, how proportion speaks before decoration, and how construction itself becomes ornament. Every custom piece begins with understanding: what the client seeks, how they inhabit their wardrobe, what silhouettes they already know and love.
The film moves through the grammar of her process: sketches rendered in fine lines, fabric samples held up to light, the toile stage where intention becomes three dimensional, the fitting where theory meets body. This is tailoring as conversation continued in garment form, each adjustment a response, each seam a decision made in full knowledge of what came before.
For those drawn to commission work with the studio, contact sales@biancasaunders.co.uk.
Imagery courtesy of Bianca Saunders (@biancasaunders).