Made for the body you have.
Dressmaking and alterations in the Bronx, since 2008.
01The seamstress
Needle to thread at twelve.
Daysi Fernández is Honduran, and Garífuna, and she put needle to thread at twelve years old. Her father worked a spinning wheel, and its bobbin is among her clearest memories. “Sometimes I’d sneak to watch him work into the morning hours.”
Her Garífuna roots run through the styles, the patterns and the textiles the collection is built from, and every piece is developed on research and careful technique. Beyond the work she is a wife, a mother, a daughter and a sister, and those commitments carry the same weight. With love and patience, the collection grows one piece at a time.
Inside the atelierThe dress doesn’t make the woman, the woman makes the dress. A woman should not have to change herself to fit her clothes.
Three ways to work together.
The collection
Small runs, published prices, sizes S to L.
04Alterations
The alteration you have been putting off.
Hems, waists, sleeves, zippers and full resizes, each with a price published in advance. Send a photo and get an answer, without a phone call.
- Hem a dress or skirt
- $28
- Hem pants
- $20
- Take in or let out the waist
- $36
- Take in the bodice or side seams
- $44
- Shorten sleeves
- $28
The price is the price.
Prices here are set once, with the cost of cloth already built in, and they are not negotiated. That is what protects the work and what makes it fair to everyone who walks in.
05Next premiere
Yurumein
Autumn 2026
Six pieces built around the journey the Garífuna made from Yurumein to the coast. Black grounds, hand-waxed batik, and one red that swims through every piece.
Find us on Google
This is how most of Daysi's clients find her, so the listing and this site say the same thing.
The Google Business Profile is being connected. The rating and hours here will come straight from that listing once it is live.
- East 180th Street, Bronx, NY
- A private home atelier. The full address is shared when your appointment is confirmed.
- The Bronx and greater New York City
- By appointment