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Sew Perfect

Well-dressed pups prefer Karol Cooper’s Love Gidget Couture

Karol Cooper is used to spending her days creating outfits and sewing. The resident costume designer at Valley Youth Theatre, she’s been designing costumes since the 1996-1997 season when she won her first ariZoni Awards for Best Costume Design. 

It was February of 2020 when Cooper decided to create something a little different—a dress for her niece Michelle’s Yorkie dog, for its first birthday.

Then, the pandemic began, and Cooper, who was used to being busy creating costumes for shows, found herself in a rare place—she had free time on her hands, not to mention a plethora of fabrics.

Fresh off of designing her niece’s dog’s dress, she decided to keep going.

“It’s just lovely to be able to create something and have fun,” Cooper says. “And everybody loves their pets. Helping embellish someone’s furbaby is so gratifying.”

Her designs are all one-of-a kind creations, and often feature Swarovski crystals.

“I like working with silks,” she says, explaining that everything is also finished expertly, like a couture piece. “And I just love having fun with fabrics.”

Soon, Cooper decided to take the next step and create a website for her creations—LoveGidgetCouture.com. The company is named after her own well-loved furbaby, Gidget.

While she’s made dresses thus far, she will also soon debut a coat and denim jacket.

She also will make custom creations for clients—all she needs is a few measurements such as the neck and ribcage.

“I love the fact that I’m working on one thing at a time, and it’s small,” she says. “Little things in miniature size! It’s nice to have the cuteness. When you know how to sew and put things together and you’re creative, it’s just so much fun.”

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