The Reign of Cyan Reign

Iv always been fascinated by corsets. There’s just something about them, the way it shapes the body and even the process of making them, and trust me it’s really a process. I think the most sexiest piece of clothing a women can ever own is a corset.

Iv always kept my eye and ears open for a local corset maker and for a very long time I didn’t hear or read of any in Brisbane Until one day way back in the good old year of 2006, I saw a cover of 'Image Magazine" (A local street Press) with a corseted girl on the cover and naturally this caught my eye. Inside was a story of a Brisbane corset maker named Cyan Reign. Finally! We finally have our own corset maker!

She makes all types of Corsets, from the spiral steel boned corsets for both men and women, and she also makes waist-training and tight-lacing corsets to baby corsets (no, there not for babies). Baby corsets are made of plastic bones and are only intended for light wear.

Cyan herself is a corset wearer and has trained her body to do so, so she knows all the ins and outs of how a corset should be worn and how it should feel.

Since my 2006 discovery of her, Cyan has been busy. Not only does she just make corset now, but she also has a label that does made to measure garments for private clients as well as a ready to wear ranges, all under the same name. Earlier this year she has also opened up her own shop called ‘Thread n Bones’ which not only stocks her label exclusively in Brisbane but also that of other up and coming avant-garde labels as well.

The location of the shop is at

Thread n Bone
Lower Level
Shop 5
253 Wickham Street
Fortitude Valley, QLD, 4006

With her design lab on the upper level of the same address


"Amelia Earhart" was her muse for this ' Flight of the Aviator" outfit which she won the 2007 " Do It With Denim" competition for Jeans for genes day That Year.


This is a white Velvet hooded wedding dress. The peacock feathers are from dropped feathers so no peacocks were hurt or killed in the making of this dress.



These are some pieces from her ready to wear range ‘Delusions of Grandeur Collection” which she lunched at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week earlier this year.

All photo’s courtesy of Fashionising.com , Australian Edge, Cyan Reign Myspace

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