MEET LEETAL PLATT
Design: Dalek Wedding Dress – Doctor Who
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Born in Tel Aviv and raised in Boston, MA, Leetal Platt’s primary love growing up wasn’t fashion, but the movies. She was an avid photographer and artist and after receiving her BFA in film production from NYU, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry. Ironically, despite her artistic endeavors, she had decided never to sew because fabric was “unworkable”, but chance led to freelance work as a costumer, where there she discovered the craft interested her. Before long, fashion became an obsession; she pursued fashion design at the Paris College of Art in Paris, France (where she interned for Balmain, 3.1 Phillip Lim, and was taught by couturiers), and is attending the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, where she will be presenting a thesis collection in March of 2015. Her designs are classic yet always nod to the theatricality of the movies (especially science fiction, her favorite), and she is looking forward to producing her own fashion line.