The Kosibah salon: striped wingback chairs and a settee around a low table, a couture gown on a dress form and bridal gowns on a rail, tall windows behind.

The Atelier · Harlem

Visit the Harlem salon, by appointment.

Your consultation and every fitting take place here, in the house where your gown is made.

Complimentary first consultation · Harlem or Zoom · Evenings and weekends

“It's a great joy to bring a Black-owned, creative business to the home of the Harlem Renaissance. The space, its light and its ancestry elevate my work and me.”

Yemi Osunkoya

Kosibah is a Black-owned couture house in the heart of Harlem. Yemi founded it in London in 1991, brought it to New York in 2016 and, in 2025, brought it back to Harlem, to this house.

Couture of the old school deserves a setting as grand as the gowns it creates. The salon is in a brownstone built one hundred and thirty years ago: carved oak, high plaster ceilings and tall windows, the kind of room where couture has always been shown.

The rooms

Where your gown begins.

Striped wingback chairs and a settee facing the carved oak fireplace in the salon. — The salonWhere every consultation begins, and where Yemi sketches your gown in front of you.

The changing room: wooden shelves of folded fabrics, books and accessories, a red velvet chair and a tall mirror. — The changing roomFabrics, jewellery and design inspiration, all there for you to sample.

A wall of framed photographs, fashion sketches and press cuttings beside the oak mantel. — A wall of joyous memoriesThirty-five years of brides, sketches, press and royal commissions, framed beside the fire.

The salon looking toward the doorway, with a carved oak mantel, plaster ceiling and bridal gowns on a rail.

The salon fireplace with its oak overmantel, framed photographs on the walls and a full-length mirror by the window.

One hundred and thirty years of built heritage, now home to thirty-five years of couture.

A curtained doorway from the salon into the changing room, with shelves of fabrics and books and a red Persian runner.

Your visit

What to expect at your first consultation.

A private hour

Just you and Yemi. Bring your date, your venue and whatever has caught your eye. Leave with a clear idea of your dream gown.

Who to bring

Keep it small and intimate: a bridesmaid (we do bridesmaids' dresses too), a close friend, or your mother. Five people at most, so the hour stays yours. Bring the shoes you will wear, or a pair of the same height, so the length is measured right.

When

The first consultation is complimentary. Evenings and weekends are available, and Zoom if you are further away.

Finding us

515 Manhattan Ave
New York, NY 10027

The A, B, C and D trains stop about five minutes' walk away. Visits are by appointment: book below, or call or write.

+1 914 359 7757 [email protected]

Consultations

In Harlem, or over Zoom. Weekends and evenings too.

A private hour with Yemi. Bring your date, your venue and whatever has caught your eye. Leave with a clear idea of your dream gown.

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