The Eight People Who Made This Dress

Corinne Grassini might be the mastermind, but she’s not taking all the credit.

The tremendously talented designer behind Society for Rational Dress is obsessed with process, so much so that she wanted to take us behind the scenes to meet all the people involved in the edition she dreamt up for Of a Kind—the ones who rarely get any credit.

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“This is me draping it on a dress form. This is a pretty straightforward piece, so it doesn’t take too long.”


“Myra—she’s been with me for three years—is making the tech pack. She’s sketching everything out on her computer and taking measurements to hand over to the pattern-maker.”


“Natalia is making the pattern. She works in our offices, and those are our patterns behind her, too—ones we’ve done in the past.”


“That’s our cutter—that’s Tony. I’ve worked with him for seven years now. The cutting factory is probably about ten minutes away. I try to keep everything as local as possible.”


“Tony cuts the piece in duplicate and sends it over, along with the sample, to Maria. She is doing a single-needle stitch.”


“Arirs is so cute—he’s always smiling like that. He’s pressing the garment. The owner of the factory is his wife. We’ve been working with this factory for three years now.”


“Laura does all the final trimmings. If there are stray threads or anything, she takes care of that, and then she’ll do the final inspection.”


“Kristina is an intern of ours in our offices. She’s doing a final, final quality-control inspection and then packing and shipping the dresses to you.”