Special Occasion Dresses

Lee Andersen makes some of the best womens special occasion dresses. These dresses can be seen here on our website in any one of our wearable art galleries. Our apparel of special occasion dresses is wearable, complex, textured clothing designed for the sensuous, tactile woman.

Lee Andersen special occasion apparel are the memorable clothes that become treasures; keepers of a special occasion. To wear LEE ANDERSEN womens apparel is to put the mind in an art gallery. It allows the wearer to be subtle ‘Body as Art’ without the limits of permanence, or the financial requirements of Couture. Be sure to give Lee Andersen a try before buying your mother of the bride dress.

Andersen-Becker, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes Lee Andersen clothing or “Wearable Art”. The designer, Lee Andersen, comes to the United States via New Zealand and is the designer with a million untapped designs.  Lee Andersen, often spelled incorrectly as Lee Anderson, or referred to as Lee Anderson Clothes has a genius that is evident in the style and range of art Clothing available for purchase in over 1000 stores and Boutiques nationwide.

ABOUT LEE

LEE ANDERSEN has fused her love of complex color and texture with an educated informed creativity and a passion for art. She has created a uniquely rich and complex form of functional beauty. She works with every type of fiber from rough hessian to delicate metallic high tech plastic, including both natural and man-made fibers, delicate silk sheers, furry knits, berber fleece, delicate metallic embroidery. Every aspect of the clothing is considered important to the whole concept, right down to the buttons which are hand made ceramic, real fossils, naturally formed semi precious stones, enameled, hand formed metals and hand worked wood.

Her perspective was developed by art training in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and photography, combined with history and philosophy.

She has taught over 1000 workshops on colour, knitwear design and creativity including classes at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. She has written six books on those subjects, the first of which is YOU KNIT,UNIQUE.

She was born in New Zealand and is one of six children. Her mother created unique beautiful clothing and sweaters for her children from whatever was at hand, in the true craft tradition of the country. As a child Lee cut up her uninteresting, ‘bought’ clothes to reform them into new styles. The special skills of New Zealand women and her own love of knitting and designing led to a business with over 100 home based handknitters and a retail location in Wellington, N.Z. selling only original garments. Her spectacular handknit garments included full length mohair coats and sweaters with over 50 colours in one garment. She sold to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Crown Prince of Thailand, the Queen of Spain, the Cosby Show and Good Morning America.

She Lee met her husband Al on a train between New York and Washington while on a book tour in the U.S. in 1986. It was powerful attraction. She left her wonderful family and friends, and her successful business and changed countries for ‘love’. Fortunately it was the right decision! She began a loving, fun marriage, and started clocking up a lot of travel miles. With the help of fellow knitter and new friend Joan Becker, she began building a new business, ANDERSEN-BECKER, INC.