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Indonesian-American designer Stacy Stube spent seven years in London. She earned a Master’s in Fashion Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the London College of Fashion and completed the New Creative Ventures program with London Business School. She worked with houses including Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Hugo Boss, Diane von Furstenberg, and Temperley London.
In 2013, she moved to Bali to establish the Elsa Fitzgerald fashion house, blending the traditional Indonesian Kebaya with vintage elegance and lace. After three years, she returned to her hometown of Baltimore to help revive its dormant garment industry.
In 2026, Stube began reshoring the Elsa Fitzgerald collection to Baltimore. Today, every made-to-order garment is cut, sewn, and finished in the Baltimore atelier in the historic Needle Trades District.
Historic Fashion Archives
The Elsa Fitzgerald Gabrielle Dress and Opera Shawl were exhibited alongside garments belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the Lord Baltimore Hotel for the "Heirloom to Haute" gala, celebrating local art and history in the iconic Calvert Ballroom.
The Asian blouse that tells a tale of many cultures
The kebaya is a garment that women like Stube's seamstress great-grandmother made in the islands of Indonesia, and one that is also found in Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and southern Thailand. Each region has made the kebaya their own, and each stitch tells a tale of their own history. It is so beloved by these five countries that they have joined together to nominate the kebaya for the Unesco's Intangible Cultural Heritage List in March 2023.