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About Zoe Lloyd

Designer and costumier specialising in vintage and antique inspired costume, fashion and accessories.
Period style graphic design, art direction and styling. Online shop now open - wholesale also available.

Zoe Lloyd offers award-winning design across the following fields:
Costume/clothing – contract/commission based and custom made
Clothing label – available from Zoe Lloyd online boutique
Graphic Design
Art Direction and Styling


Inspired by vintage twenties, thirties and forties style, costume and fashion, my work incorporates elements of, burlesque, art nouveau, art deco, the demimonde and Victoriana.

I have an absolute passion for antique clothing, antique costume, circus, vaudeville, retro fashion, forties, the history of theatre, turn of the century styles and flapper fashion, all of which I have studied for many years and which I incorporate into my design.

Some of the things I like: suave men, decadence, dressing up, swapping lipstck, romance, singing, music, arty stuff, ice-cream, Victorian-50's underworlds, Demi-monde, Victorian ironwork, castles, get jitters when I go in good vintage stores, alt-theatrical, stripper and stage costume, history of costume, female form, frenzied behavior scenarios, antiques, old architecture, moggies, dolls, old movies, tarnished glamour, sparkles 'n' tassels

Some of the services I offer include:

Costumier: costume and outfit design for theatrical, film, tv, stage, photographic, pop promo and promotional video work.
I offer custom made couture clothing and accessories inspired by 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and Victorian period styles for art projects cabaret and club performance.

As well as my custom dressmaking, a selection of dresses, corsets and accessories are available in my online shop (wholesale available, please email me for more details).

I also offer an art direction, and styling service, including hair, makeup, photography, artwork and graphic design.


People often ask me what is it I do? It's taken me a while to work out how best to answer
that question but now I know.....I tell them with a smile that I am an imaginative artisan!

Amongst other things I make costume, often do my own photography, put the life and soul
back into graphic work... basically I relish decorative art and in beautifying things in my
own particular way.

I looked up the word imagination and here's what it said: inspired, inventive, resourceful,
unorthodox, unconventional, fanciful, whimsical and fantastical!

I use the word artisan because alongside using modern day new fangled digital technology
I also do things in the real world such as pattern cutting, dress making, drawing and painting...
I love good old fashioned craftsmanship.

So, on this site you will find:
. Costume work plus clothing for sale in the Zoe Lloyd online boutique
. Graphics and illustrative work
. Art direction, styling and photography

Often all mixed up together in the giant melting pot that is me!

A bit about me: I left the North of England at nineteen to study graphics and photography
at St Martins in London and in Paris at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.

My long-term fascination for vintage and antique clothing, costume and accessories, which I have
collected and studied (and enjoyed dressing up in!) for as long as I can remember, inspired me
to learn pattern cutting and corsetry which I did at length. I constantly draw inspiration from my
collection and this passion naturally led to establishing the costume/clothing side of Zoe Lloyd.

I specialize in period inspired design, vintage and antique silhouettes and stage
costume, incorporating historical detail and intricate embellishments.

In 2003 I brought all my skills together under one roof and launched Zoe Lloyd
(formerly Hussy) and this site is a selection of the main body of work I've done so far.

Web design Zoe Lloyd, construction Stephen Prince

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