Bridal Dress Stores · Brisbane, Queensland · Visit in person
JK Bridal Couture is a one-designer studio on Logan Road at Stones Corner, and it does one thing that almost nobody else in Brisbane does: vintage and retro. Not vintage-flavoured lace on a modern A-line - actual 1950s shapes, tea-length skirts, polka-dot lace, coloured petticoats. Joanne Hasson has been designing bridal for over twenty years and handcrafts every gown herself from scratch. It is by appointment only, one bride at a time, and the appointment runs ninety minutes with a glass of champagne.
One label - JK Bridal Couture, designed and made by Joanne Hasson - offered three ways. The Styles of You range is the clever one: a mix-and-match system where you choose a bodice (plain or lace, boat neck, V, strapless), then sleeves (spaghetti straps, cap, long), then a skirt - 50s retro, tea length or floor length, in soft chiffon drape, layered tulle, or polka-dot lace over a coloured petticoat - plus embellishments in pearls or crystals. Above that sits full couture: a one-off gown drawn, patterned and toiled in calico before any fabric is cut. Alongside bridal, JK Retro Dresses supplies a 1940s-60s cocktail range for bridesmaids.
The bride who has been to shop after shop and not found her shape - which is exactly why Joanne built the Styles of You range. It suits retro and pin-up weddings, registry and city-hall ceremonies where a tea-length dress beats a cathedral train, and anyone who wants to be involved in the design rather than pick from a rail. The studio states plainly that it caters to brides of all shapes and sizes and keeps a dedicated plus-size bridal service, built around designing to the body rather than altering down to it.
By appointment only - the designer is the whole studio, so there is no guarantee she is free for a walk-in. Appointments run 90 minutes with complimentary champagne. Couture runs through several stages with client input at each: consultation, measurements, pattern, a calico toile you can try on and change before fabric is cut, then construction and hand embellishment, with fittings throughout. Fabrics and samples are held in house. No prices, size run or lead times are published anywhere on the site - all of that is quoted at consultation, which is worth knowing before you go.
The calico toile. Before a metre of your actual fabric is cut, Joanne builds the whole gown in cheap cloth so you can put it on, look at it, and change the neckline or the sleeves while changing them still costs nothing. That is proper couture method, and it is rare at this end of the Brisbane market.
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A mix-and-match bridal system. Choose a bodice - plain or lace, boat neck, V neck or strapless - then sleeves from spaghetti straps to cap or long, then a skirt: 50s retro, tea length or floor length, in soft full chiffon drape, layers of tulle, or polka-dot lace over a coloured petticoat. Embellishments in pearls or crystals.
A one-off garment designed to the bride's own ideas and body shape, taken through consultation, measurement, pattern, a calico toile, then hand construction and embellishment. Also offered for mother of the bride or groom, evening dresses and school formals.
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