The tighter a garment is to be designed and manufactured, the more the pretension to individual wishes and individual body-propor- tions of the customer are to be in my personal focus.

During a consultation all necessary measurements will be taken and registered into a drawing.

With a preliminarily manufactured corset, based on the taken data and made of twill, the fit gets checked and, if necessary, adjusted. So I can guaranty at least the proper fit of the corset and fulfil the customer's objectives to the expected optimum.

The manufacturing of the final corset will be started not earlier than the corset-model is accepted by the customer. So modification of the final corset can be avoided to a negligible minimum.

The optimized cut will take care, that the customer gets the feeling of being 'at home' with her/his corset. According to individual body-size and body-shape a waist reduction of 10 to 15 cm shall be possible - also for an untrained person - if some certain necessities of body-proportions are observed.

To use thin leather and other fine fabrics all corsets are constructed from three layers of fabric, the outer fabric from silk, brocade or leather, an inner lining layer of strong cotton fabric called 'Twill', and a lining from cotton fabric or silkmaterial, that gives a significantly higher comfort of usage. For additional reinforcement a strip of cotton twill tape is sewn completely into the waistline, so that the used material is able to withstand the enormous traction

All Corsets are boned with spiral steel bones and/or spring steel bones. Unless other equipments are wanted, all corsets are equipped with a front busk fastening-system, an integrated planchette and are all laced up in the back. Additionally, a lacing-plait, made of the same material as the corset-surface, can be integrated. This lacing-plait is just underneath the lacing area, covering the wearer's skin against squeezing-marks and creates also a nice harmonic gape-closure. On request a hand-made inner silken lining can be integrated, which is replaceable at all times and improves the wearing comfort.

Sabine Zieseniss
The Ardent Collection

1958
Born in Wuppertal

1977-1981
Engineer Studies at the University Niederrhein of Mönchengladbach with the main focus on Fashion-design, which covers essentially fashion-design and -construction, but also industrial convertiblenes- ses as well as industrial size standardisations.

1981
Conclusion as: Dipl.Ing. (Master)

1982-1990
industrial activities

since 1993
Structuring the Label 'The Ardent Collection' and first steps in Corset-Design.

2008

Representative Master Chief of guild

2010-2014

Master Chief of guild

Whereas the term 'development' and 'creativity' is associated generally with the objective to create new product-ideas or to realize product-improvements in details into existing products, a step into the opposite direction may happen in the field of historical corsets. Modern technique opens the advantage to reproduce cut and line shape of historical models and so I can follow the demand to adjust a historical model in shape and size to the expected individual product. In this case, creative ideas for modern fashion design get less important versus the historical correctness.

Creative ideas are asked much more, if the customer wants to use a historical model as a basic idea, to follow the trend of the actual fashion and to adapt it to the fashion-feeling of today. Specifically in this case it is necessary to follow this creative way, if the historical corset-model is to be integrated into a given stile of the complete wardrobe and not been worn as an insulated garment.

In both cases, the customer’s objectives present me all day sufficient challenges to offer solutions and their realization in corset-design, expanding on one hand my knowledge of 'know-how' and on the other hand gives me that kind of work the variations in activities and satisfaction in results, which are in my opinion absolute necessary for a successful fashion-designer.

I see an important and essential part of my daily work in the transformation of customer’s presented individual ideas into realization - very often far away from the usual corset-standard - but with the demands to fulfil the objectives of the projected application.

The given requirements in this field are mostly very complex, so an individual consultation is generally necessary as part of all design activities

'Across the centuries'

Copyright Sabine Zieseniss

The-Ardent-Collection

CORSET

Under this label corsets and clothes are drafted, designed and manufactured primarily for corset-enthusiasts, seeing their corset not only as a secret undergarment, but want to support also the re-establishing of corsets as standard part of daily worn informal dresses as well as base-garment for formal wardrobes. In so far, my main-objective is to harmonize the corset and the related clothes to each other in best way. It’s my top priority to match your individual wishes in respect to stile, material and design-details with the technical needs for best results.

Of course, normal undergarments as 'corsets' for Ladies as well as for Gentlemen are part of the general theme. Under all circumstances your individual wishes and given body-shapes will be reflected and considered.

According to those with a pretension for a more fetish and/or erotic oriented note, I'm prepared to fulfil your expectations with nearly no limits.

Based on this background all the information with these pages should demonstrate preliminarily the large variety of ideas and the different possibilities how to realize your wishes. In so far, you should not see the pictures and drawings as a kind of catalogue, but as a general overview on my personal performance and efficiency. In most cases, the shown products are to be seen as an On-time-manufactured part", a so called "Unicate", which is designed and manufactured to specific customer oriented data. But this does not mean that, in case of your special interest, there is no possibility to duplicate it according your personal ideas and wishes and adapt it to your needs. A 'Standard-Collection' of corsets is in preparation. But in this case of needs only related corset-graphics are available today and linkable.

My studio is located in Cornberg - that is nearby to Bad Hersfeld and Eschwege - just where Cornberg has its nicest part …. at Rockensüß.

Sufficient space and a lovely ambiance are available in the studio and so a kindly familiarity, appropriate to the theme, is arranged for corset-enthusiasts as well as novices.

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Remark:
The remarkable perception of John Ruskin, concerning the text on top of this page, is not quoted completely. Completed, and specifically in relation to the maintopic of this Homepage, the text is as follows:

"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey.

It is unwise to pay too much, but it is also unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.

The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot... It can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better."

- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)