My Little Richardland Oasis

I was only about 10 years old when I first learned about Little Richard through my parents back in the 50's. I have loved and admired him ever since! Imagine my excitement when I spoke with him in a restaurant a few years ago, and he asked me to sew for him!! Having such an icon as a friend - in my home, and as a client is as much fun as he is! In a 2-year period, I created about 5 complete outfits/costumes for Little Richard, and continue doing special projects for him. The first project he started me with was putting rhinestones on an existing red jacket that he had.

The first suit I made from scratch for Little Richard was the blue one. That was sort of my "audition" for him, made at my own expense, just to show him what I could do. Until that moment I had been adding rhinestones to various outfits he already owned. He was pleasantly surprised by the blue suit and consequently asked me to make the cream colored silk suit. It is also shown hanging on my wall before I delivered it to him. The exciting thing about this delivery was he left for Las Vegas before I did the finishing touches and he actually called me and had me ship this suit to him (SIGHT UNSEEN) at his hotel in Las Vegas, where he opened the box and put it on for the show that very night! God really blessed me to get that one right!!! Since then, there’s been a gold one, a black one (worn at the TV Land Awards show), and a white one (my favorite) – covered with rhinestones!

I do hope you will enjoy this small gallery of the customized clothing I've created for Little Richard.