A beautiful lady walks out of the hair salon and into a boutique where she is met by the designer who has chosen a dress for her. She tries it on while the designer kneels down to capture the hem a few inches and reshapes the top of the dress to better suit her figure. The designer then makes the changes to the garment for her while she lunches on the terrace. Voila, her dress is made and she is whisked away in her chariot.
Luxuries like this are those we can only dream about or reminisce from the olden days. Except, wait! I didn’t imagine this all up; this is reality and I am referring to Louis Boston’s Sam Mendoza.
Meet Sam
This special designer knows how to capture a woman’s heart through his unique designs, fabrics and personal touch. He designs small capsule collections where every dress is unique and comes without a size. The garments do not even have a label.
Until the woman who loves that dress and desires it for herself slips into it, the dress remains anonymous.
The next step in the design process is when Sam gets busy. While the client tries on the garment, Sam is right there with her shaping it so that he can then add the finishing touches including style edits, size, closures, and lastly his Sam Mendoza label.
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Similar to the tailoring of a gentleman’s custom suit, Sam’s garments are made for his customer. This is what he prides himself in: personal client relationship and made-to-order.
The Story of your Garment
These very artistic pieces are made of raw silk and jersey fabrics that have little to no seams, closures, or zippers – many of which are made from a single piece of fabric.
Each piece from the collection has personal sentiment to Sam and when you browse his collection he invites you into the world of his creative process and how each piece came into existence. Before dying the fabric for his collection, he first dyes his own clothing to make sure the dye comes out the way he wants. As a result, much of his personal clothing is now purple!
A Different Approach
Sam Mendoza’s creative process constantly builds upon the garments of past collections. Since college, Sam has continued to refine each of his collections, rather than creating collections that have completely new themes each season.
But then, Sam doesn’t really design a collection for a season either; his collections are not based on fall/winter and spring/summer (like typical designers), rather he takes a different approach by building each new collection upon the last.
Most recently, Sam produced an artistic film with Alicia Lane called “Damn Girl”, whereby his collection was represented by confident, independent girls frolicking in the fields and having a good time along the coast of Massachusetts in their silk dresses and ankle combat boots. Of his artistic film, he says,
the video was an organic creation bringing the collection to life.
Sam doesn’t care if you’re a celebrity and you are seen wearing a piece from his collection. He isn’t into mass producing. You get the one and only piece made and it was made by him. How refreshing!
Gisela Hackmann
Cool braid Gretchen!
Makeupbymikala
Incredible! I’m jealous this type of customer service doesn’t exist in Tulsa! Guess I’ll have to find my way to Boston!
Britt Hackmann
yes come visit! …More designers should be innovative in their approach and do something special and different.