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OTE STUDIO
THE STORY OF SARA & PARISA
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WELCOME TO OTE STUDIO !
We are a Toronto-based fashion boutique that crafts one-of-a-kind pieces for sophisticated women. OTE Studio is our entrepreneurial venture into the fashion world. We create all our designs in house, carefully crafting of each piece to the highest level of quality. Our diligent search for the best materials and workmanship empowers us to produce the best pieces for our customers. Our pieces are made with love, care, and detailed attention, and it shows. We have become known for our floral fabric ‘Termeh’, which is very time consuming to make, extremely limited in production volume, and uniqueness of the fabric.
Who are we? We are Sara and Parisa, two friends who met over a shared vision, quality fashion and a fusion of modern and traditional designs that bring out the beauty in both the client, the fabric, and the cut of each piece.
We met back in 2017 while attending the same get together and were immediately drawn to one another’s sense of fashion! We struck up a conversation and found that we were also both engineers; Parisa being an electrical engineer and Sara being an architect. We both had the same combination of art, science, and entrepreneurial zeal. OTE Studio was born.
We didn’t know it at the time, but we were moving up the organizational behaviour ladder from storming through to performing very quickly. We were working on a vision while talking over a coffee, and still didn’t realize that we were planting the seeds that would sprout into the fashion house that we have become today. A major force that drove us together, was our
shared past as somewhat jaded engineers seeking a way, a path, or a purpose to put their engineering and artistic skills and experience to better use; to create something with style, beauty, and value.
Sara was genuinely dissatisfied with er daily life as an architect, facing the common challenges of working in large organizations with a vertical hierarchy, and lack of innovative values. There was a distinct lack of meaningful purpose to what made Sara a professional, and she knew that she needed a change.
Parisa faced a similar set of obstacles. Her daily life as an electrical engineer warranted little-to-no creativity, innovation, and out-of-thebox thinking. Work became more like work, and less like something that gave her life happiness. Parisa spent her entire life working with art, developing her potential as an artist in the field of photography and image design. She was passionate about sharing her love of art, imagery, and fashion with the world, but electrical engineering did not have the outlet she needed to make her vision a reality.
Over the last few years, we developed our vision into OTE Studio. OTE Studio is more than just fashion; it is art, fashion, design, engineering, color, texture, and lines that come together to form something unique, something that is very OTE Studio. Our Values are customer-centric, with a deep focus on the value we provide each client. We do not cut corners, we cut fabric. We create timeless designs that are comprised
of hand-selected textiles and accents, which brings with it a sense of exclusivity that is tangible.
In the next five years, we see the fashion industry, and OTE Studio with it, growing at a healthy pace. We see more opportunities to engage in and utilize a circular-economy strategy, implement more strategies that empower our clients follow the production of their apparel from start to finish, and ensures that the highest standard of quality is met. We will continue to utilize the ‘Termeh’ textiles in our creations because it is durable, beautiful, complimentary to many other styles and colours, and a signature of our brand’s current family of designs. OTE Studio’s future, along with the fashion industry, is a bright one, with many more opportunities for artistic expression, cutting edge designs, and engineered styles.
We encourage you to visit us at www.ote-studio.com and see what we are designing next! BL.
OTE STUDIO’S FUTURE !
