Elie Tahari Women's Fashion Brand

Luxurious designer clothing for women featuring unrivalled elegance - a fair summary of Elie Tahari. Elie Tahari is an Iranian Israeli fashion designer of ready-to-wear clothing and fashion accessories; his company is headquartered in New York City, with stores located throughout the world. A designer who began in nightlife and matured into the boardroom carries both registers in his clothes, and the women's range this page covers is best understood as that journey, kept in the cut.

Inspired by the era's disco culture, Elie Tahari created dance dresses and blouses, debuting his first fashion show in 1977 at the New York City nightclub Studio 54. Few designer origin stories are as precisely placed as that: the most famous nightclub of the disco years, a first show of dance dresses and blouses, designed for women in motion under lights. Movement, fluid cloth and a certain after-dark polish were the label's founding language - the opposite pole from the tailored world it entered next.

From Studio 54 to the Tailored Suit

In the 1980s, Tahari turned his attention to the tailored suit, with more office-centric designs as women joined the workforce and the ranks of the business elite. That pivot is the second founding of the brand: the designer who dressed the dance floor followed his customer into the office, and the tailored suit - cut for a woman newly arriving in executive rooms - became the house's signature serious garment. The elegance claimed for the brand is the thread between the two eras: dance dresses and power suits from the same hand share fluidity disciplined by cut.

For a shopper, the two eras suggest two different tests. Tailored pieces are judged as tailoring: lapels and shoulders that sit clean, trousers that hang from the waist without pulling, skirts and jackets that survive a full day seated without surrendering their line - and cloth with enough body to hold a crease and enough give to work in. Dresses and blouses, the founding category, are judged in motion: they should move as the disco-era originals were designed to move, and be tried walking and turning, not merely standing.

Buying Designer Tailoring Well

Ready-to-wear at designer level earns its price in the places a mirror cannot show: linings that let a jacket slide over a blouse, seams finished to be altered, buttons and closures placed where a working day needs them. Buy the suit as a system - jacket, trouser and skirt in the same cloth multiply each other - and have the final fit tailored; office-centric design of this kind expects a last adjustment, and it is the difference between wearing a suit and being worn by one.

Care follows the cloth: structured tailoring rests on wide hangers, rests between wearings, and is cleaned sparingly and professionally; silk blouses earn gentle handling. Headquartered in New York with stores throughout the world, from a 1977 Studio 54 debut to the tailored suits of the 1980s business elite - Elie Tahari's women's clothing is designer ready-to-wear with two native languages, nightlife and the boardroom, and the best pieces speak both.

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