We have never seen much sense in making clothes nobody has asked for. Every State of Dress piece is cut and made in London, one piece at a time,

and only after it has been chosen. This gives our makers the time to do things properly, without simplifying a single line or detail for mass production.

It means your dress is brought into being specifically for you.

We design outside the conventional fashion calendar.

Each collection builds on the one before it, refining and extending it rather than replacing it in response to whatever the runway has decided to discuss next.

Good clothes do not become irrelevant because the season has changed.

Not everything needs to be everywhere. We quite like it that way.

Depending on the garment and the current queue, please allow between two and six weeks for your piece to be made. Good things take a minute.