Press Clippings

 

Bucks Magazine Fall Fashion Issue, Sept/Oct 2006 by Jennifer Smith Tapp

“Pamela Ptak – Woman of the Cloth”

“Ask any woman what her ultimate fashion fantasy is, and she will most likely say that she would love to have an article of clothing custom-made for her. Maybe you are a bride-to-be and you want a gown that is a little avant-garde but still sexy and glamorous, or you are looking for something special to wear for that winter escape that you have been looking forward to all year. Bucks County resident and couturier Pamela Ptak is in the business of making wedding and holiday-in-Capri fantasies come true. As the owner & designer of Ptak Couture, Ptak creates one-of-a-kind pieces in a myriad of styles, including eveningwear, resort & separates. Since leaving an advertising stint at Cover Girl to follow her dream to become a fashion designer, she has developed a rather impressive resume, including freelance sewing & embellishing for ultra-luxe label Chado Ralph Rucci and television appearances on HGTV and ABC-TV’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition. More proof that the stars in the fashion galaxy do not all shine in New York City or Paris.”

 

 

Eastern PA Business Journal, June 27-July 3 2005 by Kathryn F. Clark

“Designer sews up fashion career with high end fashion”

“Bucks County couturier Pamela Ptak lives, breathes, loves and creates high fashion…An ocean away from Paris, she nevertheless designs clothing in the tradition of Haute Couture, using the old French methods for draping and handwork. She specializes in French hand sewing, hand beading, embroidery and work with leathers, furs and feathers.”

 

“Following the path of the great Paris couturiers, Ptak has her own elegant showroom/consulting room, a stripped-down no-nonsense workroom, and a fabric room worthy of a sultan’s palace, where Asian and European textiles are hung in a bold rainbow of shimmering, sparkling colors. They are waiting to be turned into custom-made evening gowns of the kind that could go to the Oscar ceremonies …The gowns fit like a second skin and are as comfortable to wear as they are beautiful to see.”

 

 

The Morning Call, November 19, 2004 by Wendy Solomon

“A Fashion First”

“…and several mouthwateringly beautiful pieces by…couture designer Pamela Ptak…

Ptak’s vast experience and expertise is easily discernible this night; she is a font of knowledge...

With Ptak, clothing becomes a fascinating intellectual exercise as she dissects and analyzes what makes a piece work or not work.”

 

 

 

The Morning Call, April 8, 2001 by Tina Bradford

“Eclectic Fashions of Bucks County Designer”

“It may have been the finest runway show in the Lehigh Valley since the heyday of Hess’s. Evening wear by Ptak Couture was the highlight as a capacity crowd lunched & mingled…”

 

 

The Morning Call, October 29, 2005

Saturday Magazine – “Valley Designer Helps Out”

Fashion designer and illustrator, Pamela Ptak, a Riegelsville resident…donated a week of her time and talent this August to work on an episode of the ABC-TV show, “Extreme Makeover Home Edition,”…

 

Actress Kyra Thomas as Jasmine

Delaware Valley News, January 25, 2007 by Kevin J. Guhl

“Her costume is fit for a princess”

“Kyra Thomas will wear custom clothes fit for a queen when she portrays Princess Jasmine this weekend in the Palisades Middle School production of Aladdin.” It’s a happy ending to a story that didn’t start out so royally. The Thomas family… originally ordered Kyra’s costumes [on line]. They arrived with a week to spare before the start of rehearsals. Unfortunately, some pieces fit badly, others were too revealing for a pre-teen.

 

Luckily, their neighbor is fashion designer Pamela Ptak, who creates gowns for couture and haute couture clients the world over. Mom Karen Disarro Thomas… called next door, hoping Ptak could recommend a rental shop. Instead her neighbor offered to make “something really fun and beautiful” as a gift to Kyra.”

 

“While her work week was already full, Ptak dedicated all of her spare time to design and complete the costume… She took the job as seriously as if Kyra were headed for Broadway... Armed with pages of her sketches of Arabian costume references, she selected fabrics and trims from her personal collection… In all, it took five days to complete the costumes.

 

Kyra said she discovered that Ptak had helpful advice on life to offer: “She told me about how you really have to be yourself and if you try to be someone else, you really won’t have a lot of fun in life.” Kyra was also stunned by the beauty of the costume Ptak created for her. “I wasn’t expecting anything like that,” she said.

 

The Intelligencer, February 9, 2007 by Lindsay Redding

Hometown Heroes - “Getting a costume that's fit for a princess”

Designer Pamela Ptak donated her time... to make costumes for Kira Thomas, who played Jasmine in Palisades Middle School's play, "Aladdin."

...“Ptak is a "couture" designer. The term, which is French for "high dressmaking" means that she makes very expensive custom clothing fitted to each client's body. Working in her home studio and in New York City, she makes wedding gowns and "gala gowns" that are normally priced $3,000 and up.

Karen [Thomas, Kira's mother] said that Kira "was treated like a princess." Ptak gave her the same treatment that she does for her high-end clients, showing the seventh grader her "room full of European and Asian textiles"...doing extensive research and taking all of Kira's exact measurements...

Then she sketched out various ideas and considered all of the many fabrics at her disposal. In the end, Kira had two costumes, one a... pink tunic and pant set that she wore through most of the play and the other a white bridal gown with a veil. Both costumes were made to exactly fit Kira's form and to allow her to move about freely onstage...