About Alison

Designer and owner, Alison Campbell is based in Renfrewshire.  After an original intention to study Fine Art was delayed, Alison trained and worked in Graphic Design. Looking for a more satisfying and hands-on creative outlet,  her love of sewing, corsets, vintage fashion, history, burlesque and classic movie glamour all came together and resulted in Crikey Aphrodite. 

Alison is a trained bra fitter which makes her eminently qualified to produce corsets for fuller busted women who are not well catered for by off-the-rack corsets. Smaller busted women also benefit from shaping designed to flatter. As so many women  of all shapes  find it difficult to fit into any off the rack corset fit is the most important (and trickiest) element of bespoke corsetry.  She also has a long term love of embroidery and fine lace (perhaps the only person to embroider a poster for her first big college graphics project!) and a passion for fine fabrics. So quality is another huge priority.

Successes

Crikey Aphrodite has shown at the Nightwalk fashion show in the Arches in Glasgow, sent pieces to exhibitions in the British Embassy in Moscow and to the Ukraine, and been included in the Museums of Scotland Legacy of Lace exhibition in Kilmarnock's Dick Insitute. Alison is also on the organising team of, (and has taught several times at) the Oxford Conference of Corsetry, an international conference for corset makers.

After a bit of quiet patch promotionally to deal with a house move and some family stuff, there should be more upcoming images and collections. And of course more corsetry classes. 

With thanks:To all the photographers, models, make-up artists and of course real life brides and their partners whose photographs have helped display my work.

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