Welcome to Pan-Gaia Designs!

Expect to see a cultural fusion, incorporating unexpected elements from around the world.

  • Expect to see costumes that transform people from the mundane to the sublime.
  • Expect to see a commitment to the beauty that is the human form.
  • Expect to see unusual takes on ordinary ideas.
  • Expect it to fit properly.

The founder of Pan-Gaia Designs is Claudia T Smith. A long time ago a very smart friend saw her obsession with fashion and costume and told her “You should just make what you want to see. Someone is bound to like it.” Truer words were never spoken.

Today Pan-Gaia is a small company dedicated to making people understand that they are inherently beautiful – and allowing it to show. The costumes are designed with real humans in mind (not a nearly impossible ideal), the models are real people that Claudia knows, and the quality of every single item is top of the line.

Claudia has been doing costume work in various aspects for over 20 years. She has made everything from togas to fight-ready garb for the SCA, children’s costumes to ideas from the start of time, silly to godlike. She currently has several people that she works with to trade ideas, make different items and generally push the imagination as far as is possible.

Take a walk through our galleries and see what is possible with a little imagination and a lot of dedication. We are proud of our commitment to quality and beauty, and hope that you enjoy the tour.


Retraction

Posted October 20th, 2009 by hastur

There is a person that helps me out periodically, by doing the sewing that I ask him to do.  His name is Ralph, and I have slighted him.

For this I apologize.  Ralph often does very good work for me.  He understands the concepts of rolled hems and french seams and understands the need to keep things in line and not allow any fray to show.  It is not fair not to mention him, and it is doubly not fair to take credit from him.

This is, therefore, my retraction about the Cetagandan Funeral garb.  He did the base line work on it - rolling hems and straight assembly.  I did to all the hand work on it as well as the cutting (and that took forever), but he put the basics together.  This is doubly appreciated as he did it during a time when I had several things happening at once and all of them came together so that I would not have been able to meet all of the obligations without his work. 

I hope that this helps.