We have an expert team of stylists, personal shoppers, beauty advisers and design experts all with the aim of helping you gain the style and lifestyle you desire.

Every member of our team is carefully selected so that their experience, skills and attitudes complement what we offer our clients. We love and are passionate about what we do and we think that is evident.

Meet our team...

Danièle Hromek

The Original Busting Diva!

Danièle's passion for style, devotion to genuine service and realisation that she is completely unemployable (!) led her to start Busting Diva. Style has been a driving force for Danièle as far back as she can remember; as a three year old she demanded her socks be changed because they didn't match her outfit! This early interest in aesthetics continued and Danièle has been designing in one way or another ever since. She has worked as a freelance photo editor for websites and women's magazines. She's completed courses in interior design, personal styling and personal shopping as well as magazine editorial and website design. Gaining her experience globally, Danièle has lived in London, Paris, Barcelona, Sydney and Vancouver. In spite of her designer credentials Danièle remains grounded and true to her hippy-child/surfer-chick roots. She represents the approachable face fashion and believes style is for everyone. Her vision for Busting Diva is to create an international brand that respects its team as much as its clients.

Amy Clay

Dressmaker

Graduating from Northumbria University in womenswear design, then at the London College of Fashion in creative pattern cutting, Amy has since worked for a high end uniform company supplying spas and five-star hotels with bespoke uniforms. Amy enjoys creating sculptural pieces with a unique cut, and has worked on collections for designers showing at London Fashion Week. With a black belt in tae kwon do, Amy enjoys sparring and competing, and is active in the great outdoors, from walking Oscar the labrador to (one day!) walking up mountains! She stays inspired by visiting exhibitions across many disciplines and loves exploring new places, baking and BBQs with friends.

Christina Dettmers

Dressmaker

Christina has worked as a dressmaker for more than 10 years after graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld, Germany. Specialising in period costume, corsetry and bridal wear, Christina's love of period costume has blossomed into a penchant for Burlesque dance and reenactments. With a particular passion for outfits from the 18th and 19th centuries, she is an expert in period needlework and millinery, and creates beautiful performance costumes. The most exciting costume she ever made was a full 18th century dress with undergarments for the Costume Museum of Portugal. Her skills in costume making extend to making beautiful and unique wedding outfits. Christina also teaches all sorts of dressmaking both privately and in museums.

Deborah Parr

Personal Stylist, Make-Up Artist & Hair Stylist

Deborah has a natural flair for bring out the best in each individual client by listening and working with them to achieve their desired look. As a professional hairdresser, she uses - where appropriate - organic hair colouring to compliment the client's skin tone and hairstyle to create a balance with their personality and lifestyle. Her experience also includes make-up, which she combines with 'special occasion' hairstyles for use in studio photographic work, fashion shows, theatre styling and weddings. She also consolidates hair, make-up and style for the ultimate makeover if required! Deborah provides a versatile and unique service for clients requiring advice on style and colour, which extends to all aspects of image and style. She is a great believer that once you are aware of the tricks that can enhance your best assets and conceal your less desirable areas you will develop the confidence to let your true personality shine through!

Emile Carr

Tailor & Dressmaker

Emile started working in the fashion industry in 2002 gaining a wealth of experience from running fashion labels. He completed his degree in Fashion Design and Marketing at London College of Fashion in 2006. He has designed and sold products to ASOS.com, Topshop and Allders in his years as a designer. Emile has made clothes for famous figures such as Alesha Dixon, Mutya Buena from the Sugababes and Miss England 2005. Emile has strong illustration and technical skills and is has been teaching academic and non-academic dressmaking and sewing students since 2007, a role he thoroughly enjoys. He loves working on projects that relate to soft furnishings as well as onsite projects. Aside from his tailoring expertise, Emile has three years' experience in hairdressing so is always willing to give advice on which hair do will complete your look!

Laura Grant-Evans

Personal Stylist & Personal Shopper

Having started her styling career 5 years ago in Tokyo, Japan by assisting at some Tokyo catwalk shows, Laura returned to the UK and trained at The British College of Professional Styling. Since then she has gone on to offer personal shopping for men and women as well as working as an editorial stylist for magazines such as 125 magazine, Noir and Sussex Life, styling famous figures such as the Harry Potter cast and more recently the girls from E4's Made in Chelsea. Laura is driven by beautiful tailoring and would one day love to buy a whole Celine collection because of the label's androgynous sophistication. Also a fashion commentator, Laura blogs for a number of websites and is editor of the Imag'in Productions blog. In her spare time, Laura can be found watching her favourite team Chelsea play, searching for retro pieces around her local vintage shops in Stoke Newington and reading classic novels.

Laura Webb

Dressmaker

Laura has been involved in the theatre since age three through dance shows, going on to study Theatre Design and Art Textiles at Nottingham Trent University. Since graduating she has been working in the theatre and has also been working with brides and other clients to make sure their garments are gorgeous for their important events. Laura enjoys working on period pieces, has created costumes for the National Theatre in London plus the movie Goal 3, and has worked with a number of celebrities including David Walliams and Russell Grant making outfits for their wacky photo shoots in Heat Magazine. When Laura's not creating fabulous costumes and outfits you can find her surfing the waves at the beach!

Louise Gillespie-Smith

Personal Stylist & Personal Shopper

Louise has been a fully trained image consultant and member of the Federation of Image Consultants for seven years and has been a life coach for four years. She started training to become an image consultant due to a love of shopping, clothes and desire to really help people make the most of themselves. Louise is dedicated to showing people through colour and style how to really look their best all of the time and feel happy with themselves. With image being so important in today's society, appearance is crucial and when making the first impression Louise doesn't want you to miss out on anything because you didn't convey the real you. Plus she believes when you feel great on the outside you build on your self confidence on the inside too. Aside from shopping Louise loves getting hot and sweaty in Bikram yoga, backpacking to far flung destinations and dancing the night away.

Mirjam Maramaa

Dressmaker

Mirjam came to us from Estonia. Having learnt dressmaking from her mother, she completed a costume course at the Wimbledon College of Art. Mirjam loves making one off bespoke garments and has made extraordinary costumes for her Estonian celebrity showdancing friend, using the most quirky mediums: liquid silicone, gelatine, melted plastic... all made wearable, and judged to second prize, in the competition MAD UK 2008, by the queen of quirky Zandra Rhodes! She loves working with silk fabrics and treating the surface of the fabric as a canvas, covering it with beads and brushstrokes, to create beautiful patterns on wearable pieces of art! She has experimented with silk painting for many years, and this has led her to develop her own textile techniques. Her fantasies are released whilst painting stormy heavens, sunsets and the most beautiful flowers on silk! If you see a perfectly groomed girl dressed in red, eating chocolate cake in an old traditional English tea room, reading a book about historical costumes, then it's sure to be Mirjam. Her belief that a garment has to fit like a second skin to bring out the best features of a figure, is sure to have you feeling like you're in your own fantasy when wearing a garment she has created for you!

Olivia Deur

Dressmaker

Olivia graduated graduated in 2002 from the East Sydney Design Studio. Her experience in international brands such as Lisa Ho, Betty B, Adili, and The Laden Showroom gives her experience in women's high end fashion, street wear, men's fashion, costume design for film and stage (period and contemporary) and bridal gowns. She's worked as the costume designer on a number of short and feature films and has won a number of awards for her work over the years. She also has designed for the Sydney Opera House and other similar companies requiring costumes. But most of all Olivia enjoys creating signature party dresses that make heads turn! She likes to restore vintage garments and find out the history behind each unique garment. Olivia is funky, diverse and creative! In her spare time she enjoys attending art exhibitions and galleries, along with drawing and bike riding.

Pascale Hopkins

Dressmaker

After graduating with a BA (Hons.) Fashion Innovation and Management from the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Pascale has been cutting patterns for numerous garments including wedding dresses, bridesmaids dresses and evening wear - all beautifully tailored to meet the client's fit, style, and desire. Pascale is also a singer-songwriter and has recently recorded an album - so listen out for her dulcet tones! This talented young lady speaks four languages and is currently learning Welsh.

Rosie Dickinson

Dressmaker

Rosie has been working as a dressmaker since she graduated from a course in costume design at the Bournemouth Arts Institute. After working for several years in the theatre she's dressed a number of celebrities, and once had just nine days to get Dan Stevens, star of Downton Abbey, and his wife ready for their wedding - wedding dress and all! Rosie is inspired by period costume from all eras, in particular from the period between the 1900s to 1950s. She loves to modernises period costume by using modern fabrics and dreams of making a striped wedding dress! Outside of work Rosie enjoys going to burlesque performances and socializing with cup cakes and cocktails, yum!

Sarah Gilfillan

Personal Stylist & Personal Shopper

Having trained many years ago in colour analysis and style, Sarah has been a convert ever since. She went on to work as a photographic stylist for 15 years, working on exciting shoots for bands, advertising, magazines, TV etc. During this time she developed a love of menswear too, and loves the subtle way the small details can make such a big difference. After completing some update training at London's prestigious Aston & Hayes, Sarah has been personal shopping and styling since. She gets a huge buzz from helping clients to dress to achieve the look and feel they aspire to, and 'speak' to the world through the 'language' of their clothes. In her spare time she dances lindy hop and balboa, and finds the vintage sound, look and feel of these glamorous events most inspiring. With a friendly nature Sarah will put you at your ease straight away so you can get on with the task at hand - looking amazing!