06/11/2026
A brand for women made by women🏹💃🏻
Lets meet the women behind it all…
Jodie-Leigh ✨ Emma ✨ Effat ✨ Hattie
Read more about the women behind each Olana piece on the ‘Our Story’ section of our website with interviews talking of our favourite memories, pieces & processes…🪡💌
JODIE-LEIGH’s always been a big dreamer making an 18th-century ballgown for her GCSE Textiles when everyone else made knickers. Today her big dreams built Olana and is behind every idea, design and photo shoot. She’ll also share how Olana launched in lockdown, just two weeks before her second daughter arrived💌✨
EMMA’s been sewing since she was 8, cutting up her own clothes to dress her Polly Pockets. Today she’s behind every Olana pattern, sample and bridal piece, tape measure round her neck, coffee close by. She’ll also let slip which dress she’s already earmarked for her own wedding day🧚🏼♀️🪡
EFFAT traded midwifery for dressmaking, taking her first sewing classes once her son started nursery. When she moved from Iran to Yorkshire she watched the Olana studio from her window before she finally joined the Olana team. She’ll also tell you some wise words from her mum and which dress she thinks every woman should have in her wardrobe🧵✨
HATTIE first learnt how to sew from her mum, making bunting and tiny pyjamas for her teddies. A degree in Fashion Atelier and Tailoring later, she’s now sewing Olana’s dresses and keeping the studio running smoothly. Read about the family connection that makes her think fate brought her to Olana🪡✨
Our studio is located directly above our boutique and is home to 8 sewing machines, 2 cutting tables, all of our Olana patterns and fabrics and our highly-skilled dressmakers💃🏻🪡
From design to production, everything is lovingly considered✨🪡
Each garment is pieced together by hand using traditional sewing methods, a skilled eye and a very steady hand. The dressmaking journey concludes by hand pressing, folding and wrapping each Olana order and hand delivering it to the post office where it is signed off on it’s voyage to it’s lovely new owner💌
