Dress designers need a special relationship with their clients – no matter what their size or demands.
Puppeteer Mark Mander, from Norwich, specialises in creating and sewing miniature couture for Clementine, the 15-inch (38cm) “living fashion doll” – who performs in cabaret around the world.
It can take up to a week to make a single gown, which often features expensive fabric and thousands of hand-applied crystals.
As the nation picks up a sewing needle, much of it inspired by BBC Two’s Sewing Bee – enter the workshop of the puppet dress maker.
