Amy Lawrance is a designer-maker based in Naarm, Australia. Driven by a reverence for craft, dresses are designed, pattern made and sewn using a combination of techniques developed by generations of craftswomen. Centuries old hand sewing techniques are married with unexpected shape and form to arrive at wearable artefacts that don’t look like they quite belong to one specific period or genre but nod to many: part old-world, part mid-century, part sci-fi.

Working with a concise material palette of un-dyed silks and favouring clean, purposeful detail, her pieces are thoughtfully designed and produced with minimal waste and with the ultimate goal of being special enough for someone to wear and hold onto for a life-time. Each garment produced is done so through a combination of machine and hand sewing.