DESIRA PESTA

Hi! I am Desira Pesta (yep, that's my name pronounced Dez-ur-rah Pest-ah)

I am one of the pioneers of the DIY handmade movement and have been doing this since 2003!

Artist-cum-avant garde wearable art maker....

BFA Magna Cum Laude --Painting & Interior Architecture from Syracuse University

Former Personal Chef, shepherd, millions of odd odd jobs.

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Four years old, Desira Pesta Design/Build/Wear (formerly VERITAS et PULCHRA) is the baby of Desira Pesta (her real name), a self-taught seamstress and East Coast-bred visual artist who has been dabbling in clothing ever since she spied clothing she couldn't afford, yet knew she could make.

BACKGROUND

Desira Pesta Design/Build/Wear is a women and men's clothier that specializes in dresses, blouses, skirts, vests, outerwear, bags, and pillows that showcase the artist's drawings and artwork.
Desira Pesta Design/Build/Wear started as a silkscreening venture making painterly prints on tshirts after Desira received training in serigraphy from a tiny artisan school in Italy. Since 2004, it has grown to much more. Now, couture garments are created in this tiny studio, which are made to order with perfect tailoring. The term Design/Build is usually applied to architecture whereby the architect not only drafts the plans, but also goes about partaking in the actual building of their work, all "in house". This practice and concept is relatively reborn in this day and age, as architects only commandeer the design and planning and the construction is done by lesser paid individuals. Design/Build/Wear is something of the same vein, but applied to fashion. In fashion design, the designer also usually only plans the garment, and a seamstress thereafter constructs it somewhere overseas. Less outsourcing equals the ability to "stay local", "guarantee quality", and make less of an impact on fuel consumption and helps eradicate the need for cheap overseas labor.

All wearable art has been handmade and/or silkscreened with completely original patterns and designs with a strong belief in preserving the beauty and quality of vintage materials, while simultaneously thwarting new production of fabrics and materials. Desira Pesta uses top quality fabrics sourced from the best NYC designer fabric stores in the Garment District, including bamboo, organic cotton, silks, satins, and beautiful cottons.
She also uses materials acquired from estate sales and antique shops.
Each piece has been professionally-constructed using industrial machines and perfect sewing, ensuring longlastingness and beautiful craftswomanship. A firm believer in egalitarianism, Desira opts to charge nothing more than a fair price for a handmade, unparalled, quality wearable good. The sale of these garments and goods is conducted almost exclusively over the internet via etsy.com and internet boutiques, as well as brick & mortar boutiques nationwide.

Desira Pesta specializes in couture, so if you see something you like, past or present, she can most likely make it in your size, unless materials are limited or scarce.

BUSINESS

Desira Pesta Design/Build/Wear is a one woman handmade clothing company that works within a larger studio full of very small textile businesses run by independent young designers in Brooklyn New York. The goal of the studio space is to house a collective of like-minded artists and designers who strive to change the way garment and goods manufacturing has been teemed to operate since the industrial revolution. Textiles and materials used are environmentally and socially unimpactful (often upcycled) and designers are also the builders of their wares.

SOCIAL IMPACT

Going back to the days of artisans and craftspeople, this collective handmakes each item sold with longlastingness and true quality in mind. We as human beings need to reclaim craftpeopleship and artisan work and rekindle the true connection between ourselves and our possessions and environments. The world of handmade thwarts evils. Truly. We are stealing back the people to avoid sweatshop labor and the theft of creativity and the loss of true quality. We the people of Etsy and handmade are making a difference in how things are made, how business is run. You can see a real person in my work and the work of my peers. I have made many a friend through selling my wares. What better "world" to be in than that? What better business? This is happiness. Let's keep it up.

Socially, it's effects lie in clothing manufacturing that abstains from using sweatshop or factory labor, as almost all of clothing manufactured worldwide is. Employees are paid a fair and living wage and working conditions border on accommodations.

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TRYING TO CONNECT WITH YOU...

Loves cooking, sewing, diners, black & white tile floors, swimming, Woody Allen, architecture ,horrible vintage patterns, listening to music constantly, obnoxious maximalism, postmodernism, Bauhaus, Italy, Spain, organic farming, cooperatives, egalitarianism, brooklyn, manhattan, travel, driving fast, tree-climbing, alfred hitchcock, making movies from photo stills.

celiac disease is the bane of my existence.

I have always been a DIY-er, since I was just a little kid. I am a skilled chef who never uses a cookbook, I cut my own hair, I make my own nut butter and sprouts, I, of course, make my own clothing and bags.... I even built my first car after buying a totalled car to rehabitate. I think it's a beautiful thing to be self-reliant and that's really what makes up etsy-- SELF-RELIANCE. It's very very hard to do this, to take a chance at creating and avoiding a traditional work environment or trade, yet it's so fulfilling. I think it's very important to learn and educate yourself on "doing it yourself". Isn't it the best when you don't have to hire out? You can fix your own clogged pipes or bake your own bread. I wanted to have a website four years ago and so I slowly taught myself how to construct one. I came a long way and I think my present one ain't so bad, eh? We are human beings need to reclaim craftpeopleship and artisan work and rekindle the true connection between ourselves and our possessions and environments. The world of handmade thwarts evils. Truly. We are stealing back the people to avoid sweatshop labor and the theft of creativity and the loss of true quality. We the people of Etsy and handmade are making a difference in how things are made, how business is run. You can see a real person in my work and the work of my peers. I have made many a friend through selling my wares. What better "world" to be in than that? What better business? This is happiness. Let's keep it up. Thank you.
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www.desirapesta.com