East 180th Street, Bronx, NY
The atelier
A home workroom on East 180th Street, in its eighteenth year.
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.
The craft
Extensive research and careful technique govern how each piece is developed and designed, and the price agreed at the start is the price at the end. Daysi makes for women of every shape and size. “Every woman is beautiful,” she says. “It just takes the right design and alterations to accentuate it.”
The heritage
Daysi is Honduran by nationality and Garífuna by community, a minority people with a deep culture of their own in Honduras. That is where the styles, the patterns and the textiles come from. “When it was time to go out, I remember how elegant the women in my family dressed,” she says. “Sometimes I just imagine what my mother or one of my aunts would have worn back then.”
Visiting
The atelier is private and works by appointment, so nobody is ever fitted while somebody else waits. The full address is sent when your session is confirmed.
A private home atelier. The full address is shared when your appointment is confirmed.
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- 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