There’s a certain kind of magic that happens when thread meets vision, when hands move like memory, and when fabric stops being fabric and becomes something alive. That magic has a name: Fancy Jones.
Born in Panama and raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Fancy is a master tailor celebrating her 20+ years of transforming fabric into legacy. She’s not just a tailor, she’s a sculptor in silk, a historian in denim, a poet in organza.
Her style? Unapologetic. Her hand? Unmatched. Her work? You’ve seen it and didn’t even know it wrapped around Monica, stitched for Missy, tailored for Samuel L. Jackson, styled for Magic Johnson, sewn for Usher and Mary J. Blige. Even Charles Barkley’s swagger has passed through her machine.
The list isn’t just impressive, it’s iconic.
Her resume reads like a walk of fame, but ask her what she’s most proud of? The gritty, era-defining looks she recreated for “BMF Season 2” and the whimsical styles she designed for Jack Black in “Dear Santa.” She doesn’t just make clothes, she creates moments. Fancy doesn’t follow trends. She follows intuition.
“Why would the sky be the limit, when there’s a whole universe out there?” she asks. Her inspiration comes from the world around her and people who strive for innovation because they refuse to be irrelevant!
She credits her bold, dramatic style to her Panamanian roots and her grandmother, a woman who stitched not only clothes but also furniture and curtains. Her home was a living gallery of style. Creativity runs through her lineage like thread through a bobbin. Her uncle designs suits in Miami. Her children—three sons and a daughter—are all expressive and stylish. Her youngest, at 9, is already sewing on a pink machine of her own.
Fancy’s artistry reaches beyond fashion. As a certified surgical sewing technician at MiRus Med, she sews under a microscope with surgical precision, helping create the world’s top-performing heart valve, one that can extend life by up to 10 years.
Yes, the same hands that stitched for Missy now help save lives too—that’s range!
Still, her needle hasn’t stopped dancing.
She dreams of styling more men, drawn to the structure and storytelling of menswear.
“Men love my pieces,” she says. “They’re drawn to the detail and edge.” Her dream client? Chris Brown.
Ask her what’s missing in fashion today, and she doesn’t hesitate: “100% pure fabrics. Too much nylon. Too much wicking. We’ve lost the essence.” But Fancy? She’s still holding it down, refusing to water down the art.
A graduate of the Art Institute of New York, she now runs Strictly Editorial Creative Academy (SECA), where she teaches the next generation the art of sewing.
“Sewing is becoming a lost art form,” she explains. “That’s why I always tell my students: Even when you’re in high demand, stay exclusive.”
She’s a mother, a teacher, a wife, and creator. Whether it’s a garment or a generation, she’s stitching the future one bold thread at a time.
For more about Fancy:
IG: She_sew_fancy
IG: StrictlyEditorial
Credits:
Photos by Anthony Caldwell of @Diamonddistrictmediagroup
& Make-Up by @beats_by_tarah