TAKAKO IS A LOS ANGELES BASED PATTERN MAKER WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN JAPAN. SHE STUDIED FASHION AND PATTERN MAKING AT BUNKA FASHION COLLEGE AND AMIKOFASHIONS IN TOKYO. HER SPECIALITY IS TO DRAPE UNIQUE COMPLEX SHAPES WHICH ARE OFTEN HARD TO CREATE BY FLAT PATTERN MAKINGS. SHE HAS 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCES IN TOKYO AND LOS ANGELES AS A PATTERN MAKER FOR EVENING GOWNS THROUGH STRUCTURED JACKETS.
IN 2020, SHE LAUNCHED HER OWN ORGANIC COTTON CLOTHING LINE SAI WHERE SHE INTRODUCED COMFORTABLE SHAPES IN ORGANIC COTTON. SHE RESPONSIBLY SOURCES MATERIALS AND HANDCRAFTS TIMELESS THEMED GARMENTS AT HER STUDIO IN LOS ANGELES. HER MOTIVATION COMES FROM HER GRANDFATHER WHO DEVELOPED DISEASE FROM PESTICIDE EXPOSURE AS A RICE FARMER. SHE HOPE
IN 2020, SHE LAUNCHED HER OWN ORGANIC COTTON CLOTHING LINE SAI WHERE SHE INTRODUCED COMFORTABLE SHAPES IN ORGANIC COTTON. SHE RESPONSIBLY SOURCES MATERIALS AND HANDCRAFTS TIMELESS THEMED GARMENTS AT HER STUDIO IN LOS ANGELES. HER MOTIVATION COMES FROM HER GRANDFATHER WHO DEVELOPED DISEASE FROM PESTICIDE EXPOSURE AS A RICE FARMER. SHE HOPES THAT THE INDUSTRY WILL CONSIDER ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THOSE PRODUCERS IN THE FUTURE.
In 2020, Takako launched an organic cotton clothing line SAI.
In 2015, she started her own pattern making services and worked with more than 20 Los Angeles based designers, such as Brock Collection, Co Collections, Dreamers&Lovers. She has been working on a lot of evening gowns and wedding dresses since then.
From 2011 to 2014, she worked for Clover Canyon in Downtown Los Angeles as a head pattern maker, where she created patterns for all sorts of clothing by hand and worked with a talented design team and an advanced production team.
In spring of 2004, right after she graduated from Bunka Fashion College, she started her career as a pattern maker in Tokyo. The first brand she worked for was a licensed French brand, courrèges, where she honed her skills over five years creating structured jackets and dresses by hand and on CAD technology.
Designers Takako has worked with :
Are Studio, Atelier Delphine, Beautiful People, Brock Collection, Catherine Gee, Clover Canyon, Christopher Enuke, Chagoury, Co Collections, Courrèges, Delfi Collective, Dreamers & Lovers, Evewear, Flora Animalia, Georgette Crimson, Lavender Brown, Mad In LA, My Sunday Secret, Openism, Paper Machine, Second/Layer, Sophie Chang Collection, Town Clothes
Takako Saito
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