Bespoke Leather vs Made-to-Order leather
What is the big difference between our Bespoke (or Custom Made) and Made-to-Order Leather Clothing Styles?
When you order a piece of our bespoke leather clothing:
It means you are getting a piece that is created and crafted for you alone. Working with your unique measurements and personal style preferences, we create, from scratch, the perfectly fitting leather pants or jacket or dress – JUST FOR YOU.
Each bespoke leather commission requires multiple fittings, and multiple cotton muslin fitting garments.
Bespoke means that Carla works personally with you to create the garment of your dreams. Perfecting the silhouette and details of every custom made piece, making sure the proportion, movement and details on each creation is in fine tune with you. Each piece she creates is intended to become a regular part of your life and being. Now, and far into the future.
Designs can range from the elegantly classic to as flamboyant as you could imagine.
This is Bespoke. Carla’s background in Fashion,Costume Design and couture craftsmanship allows for great versatility in her favorite medium, Leather.
And with an almost endless array of beautiful leathers, linings and unique techniques & finishings to choose from you are only limited by your imagination and your budget.
One of Carla’s Bespoke Jackets can range from $5000 to $40,000. Depending on style and leather choices. The average, (non-exotic/non tailored) custom leather jacket entails between 65-70 hours between Pattern-making, fitting, cutting and final construction. Tailored jackets take longer.
Individual, one-off patterns and personal fittings are incredibly labor intensive and time consuming.
With this in mind, Carla has designed a series of MTO styles. With styles available for both men and women.
The difference between our Bespoke Leather service and our MTO Leather Styles:
Is that Carla’s Made-to-Order leather styles are not made using a pattern created just for one person.
This way the pattern fit and the construction techniques have already been fine tuned with the same attention to detail that we devote to our custom work, then sized and developed for production standards.
Each of our Made-to-Order leather styles, just like our custom made, is individually hand-cut and constructed from the exact same premium leathers, linings and trims. Right here in our NYC Studio.
In a nutshell, every one of our MTO pieces is created to the same exacting standards that we put into our Fully Bespoke Projects. Just without the very intensive time & fitting requirements used in our custom made.
So, if you are within our standard size ranges, these MTO styles are about as close to Bespoke as you can get, with a price range between 30 & 40% less than ANY of our Custom Made styles.
All while featuring the same leathers, materials and artisan craftsmanship.
This also dramatically shortens delivery time since most of our MTO styles can be fulfilled within 2 to eight weeks once your order is placed.
And if you do want further customization like Special leathers and more personalized fitting adjustments on our MTO styles. These are are available on request and charged accordingly.