Gioconda Gomez 
Gio
Fashion Designer (tutor)

From an early age, I was interested in drawing dresses and making clothes for my own dolls.

My sisters loved asking me for advice on how to style themselves. As I grew up, I usually drew the dresses I wanted to wear, and my mum would take me to a seamstress to have them made.

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I have always dressed in a different way to those around me. I love feeling both comfortable and stylish,  as well as combining elements from different decades.  I enjoy being unique, and passionate about making and wearing timeless accessories. 

 

​I have a degree in Fashion Design, specialising in Clothing, and have worked for many years with well known Venezuelan fashion designers specialists in haute couture. 

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After becoming a mum for the second time and having two young children at home, I didn’t have the time to work on designing and making clothes, but I always felt the need to do something creative.​ Thanks to a close friend, who introduced me to jewellery making, I started playing and experimenting with it. The more time I spent on it, I felt that my creativity was developing a different way to express itself.  After making many necklaces for myself, and having people complementing them on several occasions, I felt encouraged to make jewellery to sell.​  My designs were bespoke and each piece has its own style. I combine different materials and textures (gemstones, wood, glass, acrylic, resin, clay, cooper, sterling silver, metal), as well as textures, colours.​  It was fun to use my knowledge of fashion and haute couture on my jewellery designs. I liked to create pieces that are both functional and beautiful.​

 

I Lived In the Middle East (Kuwait), UK (Scotland), Africa (Angola) and now settled back in the UK (Cambridge).

Having lived in different countries and continents influence the way I see my creative world and off course my designs.  After 7 yrs break I decided to come back to work with clothes again and undusted my Fashion & Haute Couture skills, I currently work in Cambridge as Bridal Designer by the name of Gioconda Gomez ; I'm not only making beautiful gowns for brides, but also measure special garments for any special occasion. I got more than 20 yrs of experience working with haute couture, as a tailor and as a fashion designer in the design department of a mass production company in Venezuela. 

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I discovered I have a passion to teach and love to pass on all my classic haute couture skills to new generations; so in 2018 I decided to start teaching kids, young people and adults how to sew in a very creative and professional way. 

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