Diana Bobar

Welcome to my website ... and enjoy my journey inside the twisted world of Romanian fashion: from fabric choosing to pattern cutting, to the actual sewing - right now, I try to do my best in bulding my own clothing label: DIANA BOBAR DESIGN and having fun blogging the process.

Diana’s Pleated Ivory Wedding Dress

Diana and I studied at the same German high school, she was one year older than me, so we knew each other for a while but I did not really expect her to want me to make her the wedding dress. I was so happy when she contacted me, mostly because she knew what she wanted and it was a big challenge for me to materialize her idea.

I made a pleated ivory silk dress for her, below you will also see pictures from the fittings and the sketch from where we started. Diana and her husband Claudiu live in Austria right now, so they came all the way from Vienna for the fittings and the wedding preparations.

I am very proud of this dress, as I put a lot of hard work into it and I love how it turned out. Enjoy pictures from their wedding day below:

Diana, Claudiu and her red hot high heels.

I also made a cropped silk jacket for her to wear inside the church because the dress had a deep V cutout at the back.

The bottom part of the dress is detachable, it had tiny buttons sewed on the inside of the lining to hold it up.

Click to read more and see pictures from the fittings and also the sketch/idea that started it all.

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Eliza’s Pink Lace Engagement Dress

Eliza and Adi celebrated their engagement with a party a couple of weeks ago and I was happy to be the one to custom make her engagement dress. She knew exactly what she wanted, came to our atelier for the fitting – you might remember her because I posted this photo from the fitting earlier this summer and I was actually very proud with my sewing of the lace on the bustier.

The table setting was so simple and pretty. <3

I also made the dress of her mother in law, picture from the fitting here. All these pretty photographs are made by Sergio.

The lovely vegetarian-food-expert Ina was also at the party. Last time Ina visited us at the atelier she brought us the most delicious raw-cookies ever. If I had the money I would make her my personal chef. :D

Click to read more to see all the pictures that I posted.

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DBDresses & Custom Made 28.08.2010

Ines is a good friend of my mother’s from Germany, it was her birthday a while ago and my mom wanted me to make her a dress, so I did. I had only approximative measurements and because of the distance & surprise factor, I did not fit the dress on her, so I just made it and I am happy to see that it fits her very well. She told me not to post the pics on the blog, but she is way too gorgeous for me not to share them. :)

Nico at the fitting for Lavi’s tutu tulle skirt.

Black and ivory printed silk dress with a draped neckline.

Olivia’s burgundy pleated chiffon dress with golden embroidery on the shoulder.

I custom made these two dresses for Laura, she came for the fitting to my atelier in Timisoara all the way from Slatina, so I really appreciated her effort. I finished the dresses in a day and I also worked all night to sew all the crystals on the neckline of the dress below. I wanted to finish both dresses in time for her to take them home. I love how she looks wearing both dresses. Love love love!

Nico (at the fitting below) and her silk burgundy and white pleated bust dress with a painted embroidery on the waist. Such a lovely and sweet girl! <3

Gabi (on the right) in her office appropriate attire. I actually created this look for Oana, but Gabi loved it so much she wanted a silk bow at bust blouse and a navy pleated pencil skirt too.

Andreea was a bridesmaid and this is the dress she wanted to wear: long, flowy and with a cutout back.

Lavinia, Vero and Roxi at the fitting for their own cobalt blue custom made bridesmaid dresses.

Nena and Nico in their own cyclamen pleated short bridesmaid dresses with detachable trains.

Pleated cyclamen dress with purple details made for Gina.

Silk chiffon draped one shoulder ivory wedding dress with a detachable braided waistband also custom made for Gina.

Same printed cotton fabric, two different dresses made for Carmen.

Oana in her elegant little black dress and below in her grey silk chiffon pleated bust dress.

Alexandra in her beige silk chiffon gown with ruffles on the front and a cutout back. Soooo lovely, no?

Astrid, Raluca and Oana in their custom made purple satin silk bridesmaid dresses.

Alina’s purple silk pleated bust dress with a full tulle bottom and a green waistband.

Gabi looking lovely while wearing a short ruffle dress that I made for her a while ago.

Lavinia looked amazing at the salsa contest where she wore this custom made navy cutout lace dress with a black feathered bottom. A lot of hand sewing was used to produce this dress, but it was all worth it. Salsa dancers are supposed to stand out in a crowd, right? Lavinia certainly does.

Jasmina looked very cool wearing her beige lace dress with a pair of bf-jeans in London. Looks like she’s having a great time. I should go visit. :)

I took these photos of Andreea in her custom made yellow chiffon dress, with a long train in the back, just a couple of hours ago. I love the positive energy underlined by the bold color.

Today is such a perfect sunny day for writing emails, cutting patterns/fabrics and making to do lists for next week.

I forgot to mention that I recently created a [my] Tumblr profile where I post daily pics of things I like or encounter, pics that I am not posting here, so do check it out. :) Have a great&relaxing weekend!

Dara’As For The ‘My Second Floor’ Boutique

I made this small collection of dresses a couple of months ago. It is inspired from the traditional Dara’as, exclusively designed and produced for the My Second Floor Boutique in Kuwait for Ramadan. I love how they turned out and I can not wait to think about the collection that I’ll make for next year.

The dresses are made from linen, cotton, silk, chiffon fabrics in an array of colors and prints with hand sewn embroidery and attachments at the neckline.

Click the read more button below to see the whole DB Dara’as 2010 for My Second Floor collection!

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Paula’s Wedding Dress

Paula’s one shoulder draped wedding dress is made from ivory silk fabric with braided details. When deciding on the shape of the gown we started from a lavender dress that I made a while ago and changed it to be more elegant. She wears earrings and a headpiece made by Josephine and looks amazing! Soooo pretty!!!!

Above you can see Paula at the fitting for her dress in my atelier (the train is detachable). And below, if you click to read more you can enjoy more pics from Paula’s big day.

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DB ss2011 Collection Presentation

Davina looked and walked amazingly at my ss2011 collection presentation last Sunday at Ponton Casa Baraj – Valiug. Flavia made the constructed silk flower that you can see in the back. Big ‘Thank you’ to her!

This was the setting:

These were the dresses:

These were my lovely models:

This picture is very special to me, because I remember seeing all them girls lined like this, wearing the long printed dresses and I just thought they looked so amazingly beautiful. Will never forget that feeling.

Big ‘thank you’ to my models for this presentation (from left to right in the picture below): Sorina, Roxana, Oana, Roxi, Irina, Madalina, Davina and Flavia and Lena on the right.

Flamy took all the great runway photographs that you saw above; Florina, Traian and Dan took all the backstage snaps that you can see below, if you click to read more...

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