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His rags-to-ball-gown adventure is like that of Cinderella, but his ability makes him added like the bogie godfather, axis accustomed women and girls into Disney princesses.
["776"]Nephi Garcia, 33, confused to the United States 14 years ago from the Philippines, area as a adolescent boy, he watched ancestors sew garments. The arrangement making, he thought, looked like article he could do because he enjoyed geometry.
When he was 11, he advised and created a dress for a accessory by hand. After a few years, Garcia set abreast the hobby, but back it was time for him to get married, he activate himself tasked with authoritative his wife’s conjugal gown.
“It was a actual princess-like dress,” he said. “Grace Kelly was my inspiration, so my wife had the applique collar connected afore Kate Middleton.”
Eventually, he absitively to absorb addition affection — Disney — in his clothes making.
“I’ve consistently admired Disney, but I never knew I had a alcove for cosplay,” said the Huntington Beach ancestor of three, apropos to the abbreviating of the words “costume” and “play.” Cosplayers are bodies who dress in the apparel of characters from films, television shows and video games.
“We got our Disney passes, and I capital to dress up our daughter,” he recalled.
This was about two years ago. With debris of blush and dejected cloth, he disconnected calm his then-4-year-old daughter’s aboriginal apparel — a bogie godmother dress from Disney’s 1950 activated blur “Cinderella.”
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["242.5"]Nephi Garcia works on the account for a custom gown.
Nephi Garcia works on the account for a custom gown. (Scott Smeltzer / Weekend)
As the babe airish for pictures with the Cinderella appearance at Disneyland, Garcia knew he had article appropriate and connected authoritative dresses for the girl, accepting ballyhoo at Disneyland and on amusing media for his designs.
But, like Cinderella, he had to face the acrid ablaze of absoluteness aboriginal afore he could get to this affiance of appropriately anytime after: abrogation a position in the high-fashion industry, declaring it not family-friendly abundant for a ancestors man, and additionally accident the part-time job he had in retail, and again award himself, forth with his wife and adolescent children, active with accompany as the ancestors got alarmingly abutting to homelessness.
His wife, who is a ballerina, encouraged her bedmate to about-face his absorption in Disney dresses into a full-time enterprise.
“My wife told me, ‘We accept absolutely annihilation to lose. Why not do it now?’ ” Garcia said. “This absolutely adored us from area we were at.”
Word about Garcia’s designs connected spreading, and he anon dubbed himself the “Designer Daddy,” authoritative absolute Disney gowns and added apparel full-time from an Anaheim studio. He said he chose the area so he could be abreast Disneyland, the abode that aggressive his newfound career, and apprehend the affair park’s fireworks back he works backward into the night.
Now, he has added than 184,000 followers on Instagram and sells hundreds of dresses anniversary year, with anniversary apparel activity for about $1,600. Anniversary dress takes about 12 hours to accomplish and is different and customized, Garcia said.
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“We adulation Disney, but we didn’t apprehend that it was this tight-knit accumulation and family,” he said. “Everyone’s been affectionate abundant to allotment on amusing media, and that’s helped a lot.”
His assignment has been commissioned by cosplayers, Disney admirers and Internet celebrities like Traci Hines, who has featured Garcia’s assignment in online music videos.
The dresses he has fabricated for his alone daughter, which can be apparent on his Instagram folio @DesignerDaddy, accept additionally been popular. One of the best accepted is a dress that transforms barbarian Belle from “Beauty and the Beast.” Her dejected dress turns into a gold brawl clothes with a simple cull of Velcro and added abstruse mechanics.
Other designs accept included a ancestors “Aladdin” affair that the Garcias absolutely embraced, with Garcia dressed as the appellation character, his wife attractive like Angel Jasmine and his accouchement adapted into Abu the monkey and the Abracadabra Carpet as they absolved about Disneyland.
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Nephi Garcia works on the account for a custom gown.
Nephi Garcia works on the account for a custom gown. (Scott Smeltzer / Weekend)
He hopes his now-6-year-old babe saves her apparel to accord to her own babe someday.
["242.5"]“Growing up in the Philippines, area bodies absolutely struggled and didn’t accept a lot of things, I formed absolutely adamantine to be area I am now,” he said. “I don’t appetite to blemish her, but I do appetite to accommodate the abracadabra in her activity and will abide in her anamnesis back she’s older.”
He said he is appointed through 2017 and not authoritative custom gowns anymore. Instead, he will activate mass-producing dresses to save time and resources.
Garcia will additionally accomplish macho apparel back they are ordered, but best of his accepted audience are female, he said.
Jasmin Banuelos, 22, of Norwalk ordered a customized Captain America dress from Garcia to abrasion on Dapper Day aftermost year, an anniversary accident in which assemblage are encouraged to abrasion vintage-style clothes at Disneyland. For abutting year’s event, she has commissioned Garcia to actualize a dress aggressive by Marvel appearance Peggy Carter, Captain America’s adulation interest.
“He does amazing dresses and he absolutely does them actual fast,” she said, abacus that her dress aftermost year was completed in beneath than a day. “The affection is absolutely amazing, and he aloof puts so abundant detail into it. He absolutely thinks out the actual he’s activity to use.”
Garcia’s ambition is to eventually architecture apparel for films.
As for Disney, Garcia does achievement to bolt the company’s eye but understands his dresses charge some about-face to abstain absorb infringement.
“Doing films would be a big footfall up for me, but I would never appetite to accord up my clients,” he said. “I apperceive it’s adamantine for them to get a custom-built angel brawl clothes and them activity like a angel unless they accept to pay hundreds of bags of dollars for it. I appetite them to get in blow with their close princesses.”
["242.5"]brittany.woolsey@latimes.com
Twitter: @BrittanyWoolsey
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