Bespoke commission
Commissions
Made-to-measure garments and suiting, drafted to your pattern and fitted by hand.
Bespoke & Made to Measure · Washington, DC
Wear your story.
Bespoke, made-to-measure garments and wearable art, cut and constructed by hand — drawn from generations of master tailoring, and designed around the woman who will wear them.
The practice
Maria Fenton is not simply a fashion designer. She is a master tailor and multidisciplinary artist making bespoke wearable art for women who want to be seen, understood, and beautifully represented.
Crafted for you. Worn as art. Made to last.The work
Four disciplines, one hand.
Every piece begins the same way — with a conversation, a measurement, and a story worth building around.
Bespoke
Exhibited piece
Wearable Art
Pieces made with the intention of art and exhibited in galleries in New York and DC.
Costume / performance
Costume Design
Wardrobe for film, music, and stage — built to move, read, and hold up under light.
Styling & restyling
Styling & Restyling
Wardrobe consultation, and the restyling of pieces you already love into pieces you'll wear.
The atelier
From the Caribbean to Savile Row, by way of my grandmother's table.
I was born into a family that produced generations of master tailors and seamstresses — a lineage running from the Caribbean to Savile Row. I apprenticed under my grandmother, a master seamstress, and learned the things that don't show on a label: patience, precision, and respect for the garment.
By sixteen I was taking custom orders for formal wear and performers in Boston and New York. That work has never really stopped. It has only grown into something larger — a practice where textile, image, and theatre are the materials, and the client's own story is the subject.
The process
How a piece comes to be.
Bespoke is a sequence, not a transaction. Each stage builds on the last, and nothing is cut before it's understood.
Consultation
We talk about the occasion, the story, and how you want to feel wearing it.
Design & Pattern
Sketches, cloth, and a pattern drafted to your measurements — yours alone.
Fittings
The garment is constructed and refined on you, through as many fittings as it takes.
The Finished Piece
Hand-finished, pressed, and delivered — made to be worn for years, not seasons.
Selected collaborations & appointments
Work made in good company.
Howard UniversityChadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts · Faculty
Dance Institute of WashingtonCostume Designer & Wardrobe Supervisor
Gateway Artist CenterMember Artist · Brentwood, MD
New York Fashion WeekRunway Presentation
Galleries — New York & DCExhibited Wearable Art
Upscale MagazineHouse of Emma Effa Feature
House of Emma Effa
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Maria's creative label carries the studio's forthcoming work: As I Am, a dance and activewear line and costume shop, and SylviaSylvester, bespoke gender-fluid suiting — alongside Softly, Softly, a docufantasy film she wrote, designed, and directed.
Appointments
Let's make something only yours.
Consultations are by appointment, in studio or by video. Bring the occasion, the idea, or just the feeling — we'll find the garment from there.