This online course follows the creation of a wearable studio uniform: a practical jumpsuit decorated with handmade fabric roses across the shoulders and back.
The project is inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli’s famous evening coat designed with Jean Cocteau, where roses become part of the garment’s visual language. In this course, I use the coat as a starting point to develop a contemporary studio garment — something useful, comfortable, and clearly connected to handwork, fashion references, and personal creative identity.
You will see how a plain garment can become something more distinctive.
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This course is about creating handmade fabric roses and using them to decorate a wearable garment.
The main project is my own studio uniform: a jumpsuit made for working, teaching, filming, and spending time in the studio. The roses are placed mainly across the shoulders and back, referencing the Schiaparelli garment while creating a new piece with a different purpose.
The course includes the making of the jumpsuit as part of the project, but it is not a full sewing course. The sewing process is shown to give context and help you understand how the roses can be planned around garment construction.
The main focus is the roses, their placement, and how they can change the character of a garment.
You will learn how to make dimensional fabric roses suitable for garment embellishment, not loose decorative flowers.
You will see how to plan a rose composition for a wearable surface, especially around the shoulders, back, seams, and upper body area.
You will learn how I approach the order of work: choosing a garment base, sewing the main garment, adding roses during construction where useful, and finishing the composition once the garment is complete.
You will also see how the final roses can be used to cover stitching, soften transitions, and make the embellishment look more connected to the garment rather than simply attached on top.
The course includes video lessons covering:
Choosing suitable jumpsuit or garment patterns
Preparing the idea and visual reference
Sewing the jumpsuit as the base garment
Making handmade fabric roses
Planning rose placement across the garment
Adding roses during construction
Finishing the garment with additional roses
Adapting the idea to smaller garments or accessories
You will also receive guidance on materials, fabric choices, scale, and possible ways to adapt the project if you do not want to make a full jumpsuit.
No. The jumpsuit is my course project and my studio uniform.
You can use the same rose technique on another garment or a smaller surface, such as a jacket, blouse, collar, shoulder panel, detachable piece, bag, or textile sample.
The course shows the jumpsuit because it gives the roses a clear garment context. But the main transferable skill is making and placing the roses.
This course is for people interested in textile roses, garment embellishment, fashion-inspired handwork, and creating clothing with a more personal visual identity.
It may suit you if you already sew garments, customise clothes, work with textiles, study fashion, or simply want to explore a more ambitious embellishment project.
You do not need couture training. You should be comfortable following detailed craft processes and working patiently with fabric, hand stitching, and surface decoration.
This course is not a beginner sewing course
It is not a detailed jumpsuit construction course, and it is not focused on fitting, pattern drafting, or teaching domestic machine sewing from scratch.
It is also not a quick “make one flower in ten minutes” tutorial. The project is about building a more considered rose surface for a garment.
The Schiaparelli and Cocteau evening coat is an important reference because the roses are not used as ordinary decoration. They change how the garment is read.
That is the idea I want to explore here: how fabric roses can become part of the garment’s identity.
For my version, the context is completely different. I am not making an evening coat. I am creating a studio uniform — a working garment that still shows clearly what kind of person works in that space and what she values: handwork, fashion history, visual strength, and practical making.
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I wanted to create something I could actually wear in the studio.
A studio uniform should be useful and comfortable, but that does not mean it has to be anonymous. For me, it should also communicate something about the work made in the space.
This jumpsuit is designed as a working garment, but the roses turn it into something recognisable and personal. It becomes a piece that connects everyday studio work with a strong fashion reference.
By the end of the course, you will understand how to make handmade fabric roses and use them to build a rose composition on a wearable surface.
You may choose to follow the jumpsuit idea, adapt the roses to another garment, or create a smaller rose-decorated piece.
The aim is not to copy my garment exactly. The aim is to understand the method and use it for your own textile or fashion project.
You will need fabric for the roses, a base garment or garment project, sewing thread, needles, scissors, pins or clips, and basic sewing equipment.
A domestic sewing machine is useful if you plan to make your own garment base, but it is not required if you choose to embellish an existing garment or prepared textile piece.
Detailed material guidance is included inside the course.
This is an online course, created in my Pimlico studio in London.
The course is designed so you can follow it from home, but it also connects to my in-person teaching. If you later want direct guidance, the same rose technique can be adapted into a smaller offline studio session.
The online course is the main offer. The studio is part of the course’s real working context.
No. Sewing is shown as part of my garment process, but the course focuses on handmade fabric roses and garment embellishment.
No. The jumpsuit is my project example. You can adapt the rose technique to another garment or smaller textile piece.
It is suitable for patient learners who are comfortable with handwork. You do not need couture training, but you should be ready for a detailed textile process.
No. The Schiaparelli coat is the inspiration, not the pattern to copy. This course is about developing your own rose-decorated garment idea.
Possibly. The offline version would be smaller and simpler, focused on making a rose composition in the Pimlico studio rather than sewing a full jumpsuit.