Independent Work Placement: Post 1.

Gomez- Gracia studio is situated between Ladbroke Grove underground station and Notting Hill, placing it near to Portobello road. All though it is a small studio it still functions and operates as a larger company, producing an spring/ summer collection, a autumn/ winter collection and pre-collections for in-between seasons.

Patricia Gomez- Gracia is the owner, designer and founder of the company. She, along with a small group of employees makes up the studio work force and together they create the label Gomez- Gracia.

At the moment toile’s and sample garments for the pre-collection are being made up and altered, ready to be graded then are sent for manufacture. Most of the manufacturing is kept inside of the UK, using manufacturers in London, with a small percentage being sent to India. This means that at the moment there is pattern cutting, sample garments being made up and design work going on in the studio. While I’ve been working here there has been two model fittings for some of the garments in the collection, which have been toiled. Watching a model fitting with two different models has been interesting, as one model was being used for production sizing and the other for a sizing for a typical 5’ 10” model, to showcase the garments.

The day starts at 9.30 in the studio and regularly goes on till 8 in the evening. A small team requires more hours to be put in, to create perfect garments. These hours are predictable for a collection such as this and are necessary for a satisfactory outcome. Which Gomez- Gracia achieves regularly.

These are some examples of Gomez Gracia Garments which have been hits with celebrities along with the rest of us.