I am a costume designer/dressmaker/seamstress. I am originally from Long

Island, NY and except for 2 years in Los Angeles in the late '90s, I have lived

in New Orleans since 1993. I design and make clothes and costumes for both

performers and regular people. A lot of my designs are influenced by 19th and

mid-20th century silhouettes, though I can make almost anything from any era.

I love working with a range of different fabrics, from expensive silks and

luxurious gold-thread brocades to expensive Italian linen and silly vintage

cotton prints. I worked in the music business for many years, for a blues record

label, a music publisher, in a recording studio, as a producer and director of

live radio broadcasts, as a music supervisor for film and tv and as a film sound

editor. Even though I loved it and it broke my heart to so drastically change

paths, I love sewing and designing more.  I share a studio with designer/artist

Ellen Macomber (elmdesigns.net) at Studio Inferno in the Bywater

neighborhood of New Orleans.

Contact me at:

trishgorman@hotmail.com

(click the mardi gras indians pic to see more photos that have nothing to do

with sewing)