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Loughborough Wedding Dress Designer
Posted on 26/02/2008
P. Klein
When most people would be thinking of putting their feet up and taking it easy, newly retired Lesley Lindsay from Loughborough decided it was time to start a new job!
Lesley retired last year from 30 years as chief costume technician at Nottingham Trent University , and since then she has shown that life really does begin at 60. Alongside making pantomime costumes for theatres all over the country she got together with one of her former students Liz Davies to start Aisle Bridal - a made to measure Wedding Dress Business.
Lesley, who trained in Paris at the Ecole Supereure de la Couture in the 1960’s alongside fellow student and Top Fashion Designer Issey Miyake, was delighted to help Liz when she came up with the idea. “I’ve always been a very busy person and I didn’t see that retirement should be any different” says Lesley.
Lesley has been working in costume and theatre since the late 1960’s at the new Nottingham Playhouse and then later at Leicester Phoenix theatre and the Haymarket where she worked with many well known names – Derek Jacobi, Tom Stoppard and Ian McCellan.
Liz is also looking forward to renewing their friendship. “When we were at college, we were all a little bit in awe of Lesley as she would get very cross if anybody broke the sewing machine or used up too much cotton! She always seemed to know absolutely everything about pattern cutting and all the students would be trying to pick her brains” One of Lesley’s students was the actor Paul Kaye, best known for staring in Two Thousand Miles of Skye with Michelle Collins – “ Lovely boy! Better at acting than sewing” remembers Lesley!
Liz and Lesley kept in touch over the 20 years since Liz graduated, and now they plan to offer brides in the East Midlands a friendly couture made to measure service at shop prices. “Every bride deserves their dream dress and it doesn’t have to cost thousands of pounds”
For more information see http://www.aislebridal.com/