One Dress
A contemporary Embroidered Art Piece
One Dress is a unique piece of textile art offering a voice to women around the world.
One Dress is now complete, there are a limited number of words on the dress not yet dedicated - choose a word to be part of fashion history.
“I vowed to make only One Dress that needs as much effort, (wo)man power and time to create as a whole collection"
— Ms Tammam
Embroidered in the UK, India, Kenya and Brazil by women, with words that define feminism & women's empowerment
One Dress brings its collaborators together, Inspiring investment in the emotion of fashion without the waste of over-consumption
The dress is currently on display at the Tammam Studio in Bloomsbury. A tour schedule will be announced soon.
Now the dress is complete, it will be worn by a selection of inspirational women and photographed by female photographers. The dress, photographs and register will be displayed over the next year. The register is a record of this historical dress, crediting and naming all the contributors, an integral part of the story, the register will be kept with the dress, allowing anyone who sees it to better understand the history of its making, valuing the creators who have put so much love and dedication into making this unique piece of couture art.
The One Dress Register
Artisans In London
Ms Tammam created the Tammam label in 2007 to offer stylish and sustainable fashion collections. Through the One Dress project she hopes to bring artisans to the forefront of the valuation of a garment - joining women together across the word.
Daisy Bailes has worked as a petit mains at Atelier Tammam since 2016. “I’ve met so many amazing people and I’ve learnt a lot about the importance of friendship and sisterhood. i’m proud of to be a part of One Dress and I’m proud to be a woman.”
Michela joined the Tammam Atelier in 2019. “Being part of the One Dress project gave me the opportunity of feeling connected with all the women around the world involved. It’s a real experience of sisterhood and equality and it’s a big honour for me to be part of creating all this beauty.”
Nadya joined Atelier Tammam as an intern to develop her sewing skills. “One Dress is a lovely and original way of incorporating every kind of woman in one piece”
Eva and Natasha live locally to the Atelier, they joined us as embroiderers for the One Dress project. “I find the embroideries and the overall vision inspiring”
Artisans Around the World
If you were given a One Dress gift certificate it is now too late to choose your own word, we have dedicated one of our words to you and your name is now on the register.
equality | Ms T | Daisy |
respect | Ms T | Daisy |
emancipation | Ms T | Daisy |
solidarity | Ms T | Daisy |
sisterhood | Ms T | Daisy |
love | Eudora | Daisy |
freedom | Daisy | Daisy |
equality | Daisy | Daisy |
men are from earth women are from earth deal with it | George Carlin | Daisy |
love | Seraphina Davis | Daisy |
freedom, independence, strength, free thinking, unshackled | Diana Tammam | Lalitha / Kamakshi |
confidence, sharing, courage | Diana Tammam | Kamakshi |
failure is impossible | Lisa-Marie Taylor | Kamakshi |
equality | Kim Segel | Kamakshi |
equality | Steve Best | Kamakshi |
sisterhood | Ilana Lockwood | Kamakshi |
equality | Flores Anderson | Kamakshi |
respect | Susan Merrick | Kamakshi |
solidarity | Natalie And Molly Gleeson | Kamakshi |
sisterhood | Rebecca Rose | Chandrakala |
equality | Amy Abrahams | Chandrakala |
sisterhood | Abbie Algar | Chandrakala |
equality | Laura | Chandrakala |
respect | Veronika, Nick, Nik | Chandrakala |
diversity, empathy | Dori Valdés and Pilar Garrido from Rebeca and Lydia Scutt Goiriz | Chandrakala / Vijaya |
compassion, warmth | Elena Garcia | Vijaya |
i am a feminist. i have been a female for a long time now it would be stupid not to be on my own side | Alisa Lockwood | Kamakshi / Lalitha |
equality | Katie Lister, Nova Reid | Vijaya |
equality | Ann Nkune | Vjaya |
emancipation | Simon Tammam | Vijaya |
goddess | Jo Howard | Monica |
nurture, equality | Katie Weightman | Monica |
independence | Daisy Bailes from her mother Anna-Marie | Monica |
opportunity | Lynn Linsell | Monica |
creativity | Kirsten Schaefer | Kamakshi |
still i rise | Cecilia Edwards | Ruth |
emancipation | Lisa-Marie Taylor | Ruth |
love | Annette Lawson | Ruth |
strength | Jacki | Ruth |
harmony | Jen Marsden | Ruth |
truth | Linda Thomas | Monica |
independence | Dedicated to my daughters: Charlotte & Isabelle Paul - Andrea Paul | Monica |
you always have a choice | Anonymous | Lalitha |
courageous | Vicki Cohen Marr | Kamakshi |
hope | Elena Cass | Kamakshi |
solidarity | Donna Tully | Kamakshi |
respect | Jane Munro | Kamakshi |
unity | Cat | Kamakshi |
if you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor | Willow Lockwood-Thomas | Ammu |
equality | Nanna Sandom, katherine bruce, | Monica |
sisterhood | Natasha Kingston, Jemima Hoadley | Monica |
respect | Alicia lai, Anna Wellgate | Monica |
feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings | Cheris Kramarae | Kamakshi |
solidarity | Susan M, Shally, Mandy Webb, Juliet | Lalitha |
equality | Lihi S, Dora & Ella, Noorin Khamisani | Lalitha |
sisterhood | Shally S, Zoi, Anon | Lalitha |
respect | Maggie, Mary, Eve | Lalitha |
emancipation | Diana, Karina | Lalitha |
love | Elena | Ammu |
i am not free while any woman is unfree | Flora Marks | Ammu |
equality (in Kanada) ugutugulu | Ammu | Ammu |
beautiful (in Hindi) Acha hey | Kamakishi | Kamakshi |
grace (in Tamil) Kirubuy | Kailavani | Kailavani |
inclusion | Brenda Sheil | Kailavani |
love (in Kanada) Preymavey | Monica | monica |
compassion | Aileen Harrison | monica |
world (in Kanada) doonyia | Ruth | Ruth |
welcome (in Kanada) suswagatha | Lalita | Lalitha |
still i rise | Nynke Brett | Lalitha |
liberty | Rebecca | Ammu |
nolite te bastardes carborundorum | SianBerryGreen | Ammu |
teamwork | Theresa | Monica |
solidarity | JW | Monica |
sisterhood | JW | Monica |
my children are the new generation of feminists, the future, they do and will embody all the things that one dress stands for | For Tabetha and Seraphina | Lalitha / Kamakshi |
love (anbu) Tamil | Minakshi | Minakshi |
happy (poongey) Tamil | Maleti | Maleti |
calm | Saraswathi | Saraswathi |
liberation | Lalitha | Lalitha |
respect | Monica | Monica |
emancipation | Maya | Monica |
equality | Orli | Monica |
love | Neve | Monica |
hope | Libi | Monica |
equality | Rada | Rada |
freedom | Divya | Rada |
opportunity | Raj | Rada |
strength | Romy | Kailavani |
positivity (Arabic) | Sherif A Louis | Kailavani |
freedom | Nida | Kailavani |
inspiration | Sly Greanny team | Monica |
anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation | Virginia Wolf | Ammu Kamakshi |
love | For the jacobs well team, with love and gratitude | Monica |
teamwork | Chandrakala | Monica |
together | Vijaya | Monica |
sister | Maheshwari | Monica |
peace (Assamese) | Lopa | Monica |
inclusive | Ananya | Kamakshi |
strong | Samantha Lane | Daisy |
equality | Ilya, Alison Jane Reid, Kate Aries | Daisy |
equality | Nadia Olivero | Daisy |
patience | Lucinda Martin | Daisy |
sisterhood | Miriam de Boer, Julie Ellis | Daisy |
respect | Anna Wellgate | Daisy |
hope | Appa | Appa |
fearless stamina | Alexandra and Amelia Moseng | Daisy |
authenticity | Veronika Reichenberger | Daisy |
respect | Rafael | Daisy |
love | Fleur Aeri | Daisy |
emancipation | Nivritti Dhruve | Daisy |
dignity | brenda Shei | Daisy |
hope | Women everywhere | Daisy |
cherish | Katherine Miles | Katherine Miles |
mothering through breastfeeding | Emily Tammam | Daisy |
harmony | Gwen Bell | Daisy |
there is no limit to what we as women can accomplish | Michelle Obama | Daisy |
equality respect solidarity us | Women everywhere | Daisy |
compassion | Stefanie Schoenberger | Stefanie |
we wear the soul of the people who make our clothes | Tamsin Lejeune | Daisy |
pachamama | gemma4wr | Daisy |
we cannot all succeed if half of us are held back | Natasha Andreicheva | Daisy |
cuntstruck | Dinah Vagina | Stefanie |
friendship | Eudora | Stefanie |
you alone are enough you have nothing to prove to anybody | Church-Moore Boys - Toby, Zach and Solomon | Daisy |
sisterhood | Doobie | Daisy |
filia | LT | Daisy |
dostan dosta can canael ele cana can katalim | Tobil | Daisy / Lina |
teach sons | Lucy Gunatillake | Clorinne |
love | love | Clorinne |
i matter i matter equally not - if only not as long as i matter equally full stop | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Tabitha |
leap | LT | LT |
equitable | For Cayley from Ethan Mayers | Priscilla |
this above all to thine own self be true | Meg Hine | Clorinne |
resilience | Abi Brown | Lina |
future female | Deborah Campbell | Lina |
time for evolution | Ben Ramsden | Lina |
equality | Courtney Holm | Lina |
respect | Lauren Kenyan, Brigitte Lechner | Priscilla |
sisterhood | Rebecca More | Clorinne |
solidarity | Ksenia Belova | Clorinne |
emancipation | Lena | Clorinne |
equality | James | Lina |
respect | Nina | Priscilla |
sisterhood | Camilla Bar | Tabitha |
solidarity | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Tabitha |
love | People everywhere from RG | Priscilla |
emancipation | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Priscilla |
the measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls | Jo Maiden | Tabitha |
equality, respect, sisterhood, solidarity, emancipation, love | Clare Press | Tabitha / Lina |
equality | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Clorinne |
respect | Notorious RBG | Tabitha |
sisterhood | Danesa | Priscilla |
solidarity | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Pricilla |
emancipation | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Lina |
love | Caroline, Anna, and Kate | Tabitha |
strength | Rosie | Rosie |
ja mii | (family in Swahili) | Tabetha |
kazi (work in swahili) | Lina | Lina |
kushona (dressmaking in swahili) | Pricilla | Pricilla |
thanks | Chlorine | Clorinne |
equality | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Clorinne |
respect | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Tabitha |
well done sister suffragettes | For the women of FiLiA | lina |
emancipation | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Priscilla |
sisterhood | Michelle H | Priscilla |
solidarity | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Tabitha |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Tabitha |
equality | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Tabitha |
equality | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Tabitha |
love | For the SOKO Kenya team, with love | Tabitha |
love | To All Women | Tabitha |
girl power | Josephine | Lina |
jolie (beautiful in French) | Boris | Clorinne |
resilience | Joy N | Kamakshi |
for women | For women everywhere | Kamakshi |
unite | Asquith | Kamakshi |
to know the history of embroidery is to know the history of women | Rozsika Parker | Ammu |
independent | For women everywhere | Kamakshi |
equality | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Kamakshi |
i get to create me i get to shape myself i get to keep what i want and become someone i am proud of i get to act from true intentions from the heart i get to really choose every moment who i want to be i choose to be compassionate and self sacrificing without self harming or self deprecating | Sang Mi Lee | Lalitha, Kamakshi, Ammu |
love | Victor | Kamakshi |
men and women hand in hand not bound but free both necessary both of equal value both the ultimate sources of life and power | Kate Willoughby | Kamakshi, Lalitha |
empowered | Devina Wallang | Kamakshi |
generosity | To women everywhere | Daisy |
a womans place is wherever she wants to be | Mina White | Daisy |
women have power | To women everywhere | Daisy |
it is our duty to make this world a better place for women | Daisy | Daisy |
feminism by definition is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities | Emma Watson | Daisy |
fight on | Emily Wilding Davidson | Nivea |
courage | S Stankovska | Nivea |
strength | Barbara Jones | Nivea |
i would rather be a rebel than a slave | Emeline Pankhurst | Ms T |
resistencia (resistence in Portuguese) | Nivea | Nivea |
growth | Strumans | Daisy |
parity | Melissa Coffey | Daisy |
courage | Dolly | Daisy |
individuali-tee | To all the women who want to change the world, because they can - From Citizen Wolf Sydney | Daisy |
harmony | Heather Chapman | Daisy |
elegance | Emma Gaultier | Emma |
woman free | Jeane Sarson & Linda MACDonald from Elizabeth Gordon | Daisy |
clarity | Sylvia Temple | Daisy |
boss-y | Polina May from Marta | Daisy |
positive | My Dear daughter Peggy xx | Daisy |
inspiring | My Dear daughter Ivy xxx | Daisy |
forever | For Florence | Daisy |
omnia feminae aequissimae (women are equal to everything) | Sarah Makay | Daisy |
incorruptible spirit incorruptible spirit incorruptible spirit | To Jasmine Hassett with love, mum X | Daisy |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Daisy |
sisters are doing it for themselves | For Sarah | Clarissa |
equanimity | Susan Muncey | Daisy |
unity | Natasha Cranston | Daisy |
confidence | Josephine Wright | Daisy |
courageous | Gurpreet Sokhi | Daisy |
superwoman | Heatherleigh Hayman | Daisy |
sisterhood | Rocky | Daisy |
inspiration | DEDICATE THIS WORD | |
r e s p e c t find out what it means to me r e s p e c t | Aretha Franklin | Ms T |
moteris (woman in Lithuanian) | Grėta Kišonienė | Mei Mei |
embrace (in Taiwanese | Mei Mei | Mei Mei |
dainty | Harvey | Mei Mei |
amour | Women of the world | Juliette |
confiance (trust in french) | Juliette Adami | Juliette |
smash the patriarchy | Feminists everywhere | Juliette |
shakti | Justine Glenton | Michela |
liberty | Julian Norman | |
femininity | Tracey Goldfinch Elson | Michela |
mothernature | Dulcine | Michela |
love | Gabriela Dias | Ms T |
inner strength and sisterhood will bring her from her knees she will spread the love and rid the world of inequalities | Anna-Marie Bailes | Michela |
love | Eudora | Eudora |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
hand made | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
this world is for all | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
equalities | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
extravaganza | Stefania Barbaglio | Michela |
shelter | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
respect | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
equalty (hebrew) שוויון | Tammy Smith | Ms T |
free | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
sisterhood | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
peace | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
respect | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
she - who grew to be the s enhancing he s-sense - essence s-sensual - essential s-sending ascending now - to her full potential | Roz Ottery | Daisy / Michela |
queens | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
fearlessness | Zibby | Daisy |
great | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
be | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
howl | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
defacto | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
wonderfully potent | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
cote | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
hussy | Granny Marsden | Daisy |
svoboda (freedom in Czech ) | Marketa Zuaretz | Daisy |
bellezza | Michela Fulgoni | Michela |
Sincere (in Japanese) 誠実 | Sandra Xia | Daisy |
i do not wish women to have power over men - but over themselves | Eleanor Tomlinson | Ammu, Kamakshi |
illuminate | Isabella Sartori | Isabella |
intensidade | Rita Capao | Ruth |
sororal | Sabina & Greta | Kanchana |
supernova | Camilla Bellotti | Kanchana |
beloved | Yvonne Campbell | Ammu |
my sisters | The sisterhood | Ammu |
олосы пахнут ветром ( volosi pakhnut vetrom- Russian for hair that smells of the wind | Cicely Fell | Kanchana |
individuality | Sharon Burns | Ammu |
agency | Louise Ritchie | Sheelu |
sisterhood | Mayowa Akinloye | Sheelu |
you deserve to be here you deserve to exist you deserve to take up space in this world of men | Rita Capao | Kanchana, Kamakshi |
matriarch - she carries within her the power to endure pain and the courage to sacrifice | Nonna Laura | Kamakshi, Kanchana |
equality | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ruth |
respect | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ruth |
emancipation | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ammu |
sisterhood | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Sheelu |
solidarity | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Sheelu |
love | Beth Isaac | Sheelu |
feminism is not about making women stronger women are already strong it is about changing the way the world perceives that strength | PART SPONSOR THIS SENTENCE / DEDICATE THIS WHOLE QUOTE | Ruth, Lalitha |
disobedience is the true foundation of liberty | PART SPONSOR THIS SENTENCE / DEDICATE THIS WHOLE QUOTE | Kanchana |
a woman is like a tea bag - you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water | Margarida, PART SPONSOR THIS SENTENCE | Kamakshi, Kanchana |
heroine | Roberta | Michela |
herstory | Georgina | Michela |
joy | For Joy | Michela |
inclusivity | Traci Dixon (nee Coldron) | Michela |
defiant | Cecilia and Boadecia | Michela |
famiglia | Simona Barbieri | Michela |
cherished | Sue Lees | Michela |
empowerment | Ruth Sabrosa | Michela |
friendship | Mum - Pat Bunch | Michela |
surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable and life is more than a dream. | Mary Wollstonecraft | Michela |
liberty | Nadya | Nadya |
love | Grace Woodward & fleur Britten | Nadya |
you have all the cofidence you need | Bloomsbury Beginnings | Nadya |
powerful | Lizzie | Lizzie |
love | Amika George & little kotos closet | Nadya |
kiss me and you will see how important I am | Sylvia Plath, Style with Conscience | Lizzie |
love | Venetia & Andrea Jarret | Nadya |
privilege | Steven | Nadya |
empathy | Robyn Churchman | Nadya |
sororité (sorority in French) | Camille | Nadya |
love | Carmen Busquets | Nadya |
mother | Maroulla from Elena | Ms T |
remarkable | Zoe, Huxley and Roni x | Michela |
empathy | Izzy Franke | Michela |
love | Anna Murphy | Michela |
kindness | Pattie Hobbs | Michela |
healing | Joscelyn Skye Courtenay | Michela |
love | Lisa Armstrong, Hannah Marriot | Ms T |
inclusivity | My daughter - Sydonie | Lizzie |
conscious | Harry | Lizzie |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Lizzie |
how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world | PART SPONSOR THIS SENTENCE / DEDICATE THIS WHOLE QUOTE | Ms T |
respect | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
sisterhood | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
soloidarity | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
emancipation | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
equality | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
every individual matters every individual has a role to play every individual makes a difference | Dr Jane Goodall | Ms T |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
strength | Sarah Pitt | Ms T |
extraordinary | For community matron Eileen Gorman | Ms T |
A girl should be two things - who and what she wants | PART SPONSOR THIS SENTENCE / DEDICATE THIS WHOLE QUOTE | Ms T |
serenity | Morgan | Ms T |
authentic | Natalie Dean | Ms T |
hope | Gemma | Natasha |
strength | Emma Foster | Ms T |
hennu (woman in Kannada) | Rema Sivaram | Eva |
rispetto | Natasha Petruzziello | Natasha |
fogelstaforbundet (Swedish Suffragette group) | Eva Hoog | Eva |
equality | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Eva |
respect | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Natasha |
sisterhood | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Natasha |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Eva |
solidarity | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Eva |
emancipation | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Natasha |
vulnerability | Chloe Potter | Eva |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Eva |
for there is always light if only we are brave enough to see it if only we are brave enough to be it | PART SPONSOR THIS SENTENCE / DEDICATE THIS WHOLE QUOTE | Eva |
I am your friend but never your possession | PART SPONSOR THIS SENTENCE / DEDICATE THIS WHOLE QUOTE | Natasha |
confluent | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Natasha |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Natasha |
i am as powerful as a man and it drives them crazy | AOC | Natasha |
sisterhood | Bloomsbury Beginnings | Natasha |
sororidade (sisterhood in Brazillian Portuguese) | Ivi Felix | Natasha |
equality | Cal, Mari, Carolina, Giodana, Bruna | Eva |
humanity | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Eva |
resiliencia | Bruna Nascimento | Ms T |
(love in hebrew) אהבה | Laura Megnagi Naccache | Ms T |
all change began with awareness | Disha Ravi | Ms T |
friendly | Neve Esther Tammam | Ms T, Eudora |
if you do not open the door for me I will come in through the window and if it is closed down the chimney | Lucy Aharish | Ms T |
favela | Giordana Moreira | Ms T |
just a drive toward equality | Cate Blanchett | Ms T |
I think he will probably come round in time | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | Ms T |
equal | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
love | DEDICATE THIS WORD | Ms T |
voice | Virginia Casella | Ms T |