ABOUT

Design & Alter

With over 30 years of experience, the trusted team of professionals, tailors, seamstresses, fitters and members of the fashion industry provide a comprehensive alteration service to clients and fashion brands, ensuring the best clothes fit for day and evening wear. The experienced team specialises in high-quality alterations, while maintaining the original finish to preserve the integrity of the original item.

The clientele is diverse: The team alters clothes for private clients who are passionate about clothes and quality. Supporting stylists and fashion designers in London, our commercial clients include luxury fashion brands such as The Row, Gucci, Ferragamo and Acne Studios. We look after clients of Dover Street Market and support press offices, ensuring their VIP clients look their best at red carpet events, on screens, and on the front pages of hot fashion magazines. We regularly assist with catwalk events and fashion shows

‘People will stare. Make it worth their While.’ Harry Winston

Our Company

We are perfectionists when it comes to clothes, fit and finish. The team of fitters, seamstresses, and tailors applies meticulous attention to detail to achieve a high-quality finish and a well-proportioned style.

We tailor and alter clothes, have specialists in formal alterations for suits, jackets, and coats, and offer alterations for leather and faux-fur garments. Seamstresses, skilled and experienced in dressmaking, alter complex evening wear and embellished fabrics as well as bodices and boned corsets of dresses. Our team ensures couture finishes. We support clients in wearing their clothes longer and offer repairs, restyling and updating of vintage, second-hand and heirloom pieces.

Our Belief

Perfectly fitted clothes provide you with comfort and confidence and create a safe place, whether in public, professionally or in private. They accentuate and celebrate your favourite features to show the best of you.

Our Studio

In our studios, you find decades of cumulative tailoring experience and creative skills from around the world under two roofs, working as a team. Our team ensures your best look – beautiful, sharp, stylish and professional, whichever you choose.

At D&A fitting studio, experienced fitters look after private clients and brides. You discuss your ideas and vision. Our fitters advise and assist in ensuring the best-fitting clothes. Once pinned, our driver will collect your garments from our workroom, located ten minutes’ walk away – down the road – also under arches. In our workroom, managers, tailors and seamstresses will look after your garments: They tailor, alter, sew, adjust, restyle, steam and conduct quality control before your clothes are delivered back to Front of House, to stores in central London, or to the homes of private clients. Quality control is integral to our processes, ensuring high standards and consistency.

Our Commitment

We believe having a true passion for clothes means you will always make the most of what you wear. We have a passion to promote better and more sustainable fashion habits. We like to spark conversations, raise awareness and encourage improved choices in regard to how we wear and value our clothes.

What are some of the ways we make a difference? We can give a second life to the clothes you already own. A better fit, a better look, so you’ll rediscover old favourites and enjoy wearing them again and again. Practical repairs and creative restyling can extend the lifespan of your older pieces or wardrobe items that have never been worn.

Collaboration is the core of what we do. We will work with you to reduce textile waste and help create a better environment.

Visit our studios and find decades of cumulative tailoring experience and creative skills from around the world.

Eva workroom manager design and alter team

bridal seamstress Florentine, design & alter team

We have a dedicated bridal department that supports you with bridal alterations, restyling and bespoke tailoring.

Bride & Alter is known as one of London’s long-established bridal alteration and tailoring services. We alter wedding dresses and bridal wear, ensuring that brides look their most fabulous on their wedding day. Our experienced seamstresses alter all styles of wedding dresses, fabric types and finishes. The team also offers bespoke bridal wear, restyling and restoring of vintage and family heirloom pieces. Bride & Alter is a partner of bridal designers and the bridal community in London.

Design & Alter, Alterations and Tailoring, London

High Quality Clothes Alterations, Made-to-Measure, Dressmaking and Vintage Restyling

Design & Alter is one of London’s leading tailoring and alteration service. With over 30 years of experience we have been providing our diverse client base with outstanding expertise in clothing alterations and tailoring that is second to none. We look after Private Clients, London’s leading fashion houses and VIP clients. Stylists and PR Offices trust us with their valuable garments.