Hi everyone! Recently I’ve been looking more into how Lolita dresses are made, and I had no idea that some brands had designers separate from the seamstresses! I’m working on my first design today and I was wondering..

Can I partner with a seamstress to become a brand? In theory of course, I’d need to work more on designing more dresses, blouses, ( Read more... )

Looking for Indie/Small Lolita brands!

Hi, I was wondering if there was a place I could look for small owned Lolita brands ! Especially US based ^^

I live in New York, and there’s a store nearby named Sweet Poison Cupcake! They sell bodyline and other Lolita clothes, and I started looking online for small brands to support, but most of them are Japan ( Read more... )

What with localised lolita fashion such as Wa lolita for Japan and Qi Lolita for China, I suddenly had the urge to make my own designs of localised lolita fashion for the Philippines. I was very disappointed and frustrated that the only brand that makes lolita clothing there happen to be DollDelight which aesthetically I find personally unappealing ( Read more... )

Hello everyone!! I'm a newbie lolita (are there any cute terms for this?), and I've broken into the fashion by making my own JSKs, since affording brand will be something I dream of for a long time to come. I have recently ordered my first Krad Lanrete dress, however, and am excitedly waiting for it to arrive!!

I was wondering if I could get some ( Read more... )

There are a lot of talented Lolita seamstresses out there, starting their own brands and coming up with new ideas.  But one thing that I love about Lolita is how unique and personalizable it is for the individual!  I love to design and sew and dress up in Lolita, but it got me to thinking: there are a lot of great designers/owners of brands ( Read more... )

Hello again!
Thanks for your help so far. I really learned a lot.But i need your assistance one more time :D
I plan my next steps for my indie label at the moment. So i have two important questions. If you need any more informations just ask ^__^

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I'm thinking of starting my own Lolita clothing brand, it's not something I'm taking lightly. Anyways, I'm currently researching what companies I can get to print the fabric i'll design and the company I'll pay to sew the dresses, I'm very very picky on who is good enough as I want the most uperior quality. It got me thinking, what companies do the ( Read more... )

EDIT: Thank you everyone who filled this out, I've reached the maximum number of answers I can get on my SurveryMonkey account and have a lot of data now. Thank again :D ( Read more... )

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( I want to own my own business and possibly make some movie/game inspired prints, but I'm not sure about the legal issues and such. Anyone have experience/know anything about this? )