A gown should fit the bride, not the other way round
Ivory & Lace started in 2016 in a small Tiong Bahru shophouse, out of a frustration our founder kept feeling as a guest at other studios: brides squeezed into the closest sample, sold the gown that suited the rail rather than the woman, and rushed through a fitting alongside three others. Clara had trained in couture tailoring and believed the opposite — that the gown should be moved, taken in and reshaped until it fits the bride exactly, never the bride starved or padded to fit the gown.
So we built a studio around that idea. We design and sew every gown in-house, which means when you want the back lowered or a sleeve softened, you’re talking to the person who made it. We see one bride at a time. We include the alterations rather than nickel-and-diming each fitting. And we keep ivory, champagne and blush on the rails rather than only stark white, because warmth photographs as timeless.
A decade on, we’ve designed over three hundred gowns and dressed brides from quiet registry mornings to thousand-guest ballroom dinners — and the qipao for the tea ceremonies in between. The studio is bigger; the principle hasn’t moved an inch.
Meet the atelier
Trained in couture tailoring before opening Ivory & Lace in a Tiong Bahru shophouse. She still drapes the toile for every bespoke gown herself, and believes a wedding dress should fit the bride, never the other way round.
Fifteen years pinning, taking in and bustling gowns. The calm hands at your final fitting, and the reason brides say our dresses "just sit right" — she will lengthen a strap a centimetre until it is exactly true.
The first face you meet in the atelier. She reads a bride quickly — covered or bare, quiet or glamorous — and pulls the three gowns you did not know to ask for. Also the keeper of our qipao rail.
How we work
Designed and sewn in-house
Every gown on our rails is drafted and hand-finished by our own atelier — not bought wholesale and rebadged. When you alter the back or move a seam, you are talking to the person who made it.
One bride at a time
We never double-book the fitting suite. Your appointment is private and unhurried, with a designer who pulls gowns to your shape and your day, and is honest about what suits you.
Alterations included, not extra
Rental gowns come with their fittings and alterations included — taking in, lengthening, a bustle for the train. The price we quote is the price you pay, with no fitting-by-fitting surprises.
The Atelier — Tiong Bahru
6 Yong Siak Street, #02-11, Singapore 168641
A 4-minute walk from Tiong Bahru MRT (EW17) · By appointment · Tue–Sun, 11am–8pm