Brandy Godsil is a North Carolina, Atlanta, and New York City based fiber artist, couturier, and on-set tailor. With a creative eye for custom tailoring, design, pattern making, and innovative textiles, Brandy has fit and tailored high-end garments for red carpet events, NYFW, editorial, and catalog photo shoots.
Brandy received her BFA in Textiles and Fashion Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. After graduating in 2009, she moved to NYC and began apprenticing as a tailor and shirtmaker for bespoke menswear companies. She completed a pattern-making apprenticeship with Nicolas Caito Atelier and worked for many luxury womenswear and menswear tailor shops. Brands include MARNI, MICHAEL KORS Collection, ETRO, and Miller's Oath.
Brandy teaches fashion design, sewing and patternmaking, textile arts, and drawing to students of all ages and abilities.
She is co-founder and advisor of non profit weaving arts organization SAORI Arts NYC where she teaches weaving, fiber arts, and sewing to people with disabilities around the U.S