Understated, vintage inspired wedding and cocktail dresses

About Us

Motasem offers understated, vintage inspired wedding and cocktail dresses to brides looking for a great value, simple and elegant wedding dress and to women looking for dresses to wear day through till evening. Some of the styles can be customised with optional design features, such as different necklines and designer details. Wedding dresses can also be transformed into a chic style after the big day.

Dresses are available in set sizes, can be altered to fit and made in the UK. Prices start from £600 for wedding dresses and £250 for cocktail dresse. Available to purchase through appointments at the Islington showroom from a sample collection with a five week delivery.

Sabina Ali, creative director behind Motasem, spent several years working in design, production and graphics in fashion and media and on numerous projects as a fashion stylist before starting Motasem. In 2005, she received commissions to design a simple and elegant wedding dresses. They were a huge hit and other orders quickly followed. There was clearly a gap in the market and the idea for Motasem was born. In the summer of 2006, Sabina won an award on the New Entrepreneur Scholarship and was selected to showcase her collection at Zandra Rhodes’ Fashion and Textile museum.

The following year saw the Aurora and Alaya dresses grace the red carpet at the premiere of the first Twilight film. The Alaya dress is a highly flattering bias cut cowl neck wedding dress, a popular style of the last two years, is perfect for those yearning for a Pippa Middleton style wedding dress. Motasem is the middle name of Sabina Ali, meaning “having an attractive and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking and beautiful”.

Motasem is the middle name of Sabina Ali, meaning “having an attractive and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking and beautiful”.

Sabina Ali
Creative Director

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