The highly anticipated FTM Fashion Week S10 with celebrity host Vivica A. Fox is coming to North Carolina on Saturday, October 15 at 6 p.m. to help celebrate 10 years of fashion, family, and community. Meet the feature designer for season 10 "DANIETTE"
Danietté Arionna Thomas is the founder, lead designer, stylist, and creative director of DANIETTÉ, a custom couture design company based out of Savannah, GA, servicing people all over the United States.
At age 11, Danietté entered middle school, for the first time without the textile composite of a school uniform. When school shopping, she could never find the apparel she imagined shopping for, which led her to sketch. After finishing her schoolwork, Danietté was happiest with printer paper and a sharp #2 pencil. The sketching was simply a way to keep a record of her ideas, but her professor asked her if she planned to make her designs. Laughing, Danietté claimed such a thing was impossible. Still, after hearing from that same professor, how she could get fabric and a sewing machine from a local fabric store, and how patterns were created for the different shapes needed for clothing, Danietté was amazed. By the end of the school day, Danietté knew she wanted to be a fashion designer!
By age 12, Danietté sought after the Savannah College of Art and Design. For years she was self-taught, but then paid a SCAD master’s student to give her lessons while in high school. Her experience at SCAD was one of the greatest of her life thus far. She was selected amongst her senior classmates to showcase her senior collection in the annual SCAD Fashion Show. Still, her collection was recognized at the private after-party by Andre Leon Talley, as the best in show.
In fall of 2015, Danietté was commissioned for her first custom couture piece, and immediately filed the necessary paperwork to start her business, and has been creating couture ever since. Her accomplishments include two seasons at New York Fashion Week, and the opportunity to showcase her designs at the Oscars of 2020.
At the top of the pandemic, Danietté was inspired to create new content for marketing at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of consistently sharing photos and sketches of her wedding and prom garments from previous seasons, she did a #quarantined photoshoot with designer masks to compliment her designs. She got a reaction online that was like no other for her business.
In summer of 2021, the brand elevated to what is now House of DANIETTÉ, located near downtown Savannah. The 3000 square foot commercial spaces serves as a design house as well as an event venue. The company hosted the grand opening April 4, 2022, and made history opening Savannah’s First Design House.
website: http://www.daniette.com/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/designerdaniette/