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Impressed to Dress M E E T F A S H I O N D E S I G N E R L O R E N C O R C O R A N Story by Courtney Fields Images by Carrie Beth Wallace Columbus brides no longer need to travel to bigger cities to find the perfect wedding dress. The wedding dress of your dreams can be created for you in the heart of our city. Custom wedding gown designer Loren Corcoran wants you to bring your vision boards and print out your favorite pins to craft your ‘this is the dress’ aha moment right here in Columbus. Since 2015, Corcoran has been creating these moments for brides, but her journey to Loren Elizabeth Designs began several years prior. Corcoran was unsure of her calling as a student and single mother at Auburn University, but enrolled as a fashion merchandising student. After completing one project that pushed her to create a dress for a window display, Corcoran’s professor encouraged her to venture into fashion design. She had no prior knowledge of design and didn’t even know how to sew, but she followed her gut and changed her major to fashion design. With the help of her professors and after being mentored by a Columbus area seamstress, Kristin Morgan, Corcoran began to learn the ropes (or rather, seams) to become a fashion designer. Through her mentorship, she was also able to get involved with New York Fashion Week beginning in 2014. Under the direction of Sherri Hill, Corcoran along with two others are responsible for altering nearly 60 dresses within 5 days, along with dressing the models backstage and taking each of their measurements. 28
Details, details. Details are an essential element of Corcoran's style. On the previous page, Corcoran is pictured working on a custom cape of a rehearsal dinner dress she's designing for a local bride. "I just love the details here," Corcoran said to us as we watched her work. "These tiny pearls and the delicate way this cape will drape over the bride's silk strapless dress... it's going to be perfect. I love that the pretty little details are what is important to her." On this page: (Top) Details of fabrics used in previous dresses. (Bottom left) The designer's Bernina Sewing Machine. (Bottom right) Corcoran in her studio.
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