Our Story

About Gorgeous GoddessWear

For nearly 20 years, I have been selling Gorgeous GoddessWear at numerous events throughout the country, from California to Chicago, Portland to San Antonio.

And then came the coronavirus! My wonderful papa / grandfather Jose used to say, "There's nothing so bad that something good doesn't come from it!" So here we are in this crazy time, and now, the only thing that makes sense is shifting to an online Gorgeous GoddessWear business.

For lots of the items pictured, I only have one available, or limited sizes. In many cases I cannot re-order them. If you see an item you like and it’s not listed in your size, I might be able to get it. Please ask me, and I will re-order it if possible. If so, it could take two or three weeks to get.

I will regularly be adding more pieces to the website, so please let me know what you'd like to see more of.   And, if you live in the Los Angeles area, you're welcome to contact me to make an appointment to come up to Topanga Canyon and see the entire collection!

Please be sure to “Like” Gorgeous GoddessWear on Facebook; I will post NEW PIECES and SALE ITEMS to the website there! I welcome your feedback and suggestions. And, please keep coming back to see what’s been added.

Thank you for visiting our site and happy GoddessWear shopping!

About Kathleen Gildred

I have spent most of my adult life doing whatever I thought would make the most significant difference in creating a better world. For over twenty-five years, whenever I was in between projects, I would ask myself, “What is the most important thing in the world that needs to be done that no one else is doing?”

I began my work of helping to create a better world in the 1970’s, with my metaphysical bookstore next to the Inn of the Seventh Ray in Topanga Canyon, Southern California. Through the years, I also worked out of the United Nations coordinating the What’s Working in the World program of the First Earth Run, and created the first Personal Action Guide for the UN Environment Programme, which was translated into seven languages and sold several hundred thousand copies. I worked for the U.S. Department of Defense helping to connect them with the environmental community for their Defense and Environment Initiative, and on a plan for sustainability for Maui, HI.

My work on the environment culminated with my organization, the Southern California Council on Environment and Development (SCCED), demonstrating that sustainable policies can work for the environment and the economy. We put on close to fifty conferences and forums, and had task forces in transportation, water, waste, and open space. SCCED educated the public and city government personnel, and we were told that we put on the best educational events to help city governments improve on their programs.

In January of 2001, having had a change of fortune due to the stock market, I decided to re-invent myself. I made a long list of everything I might enjoy doing, and then arranged the list by what I thought I would enjoy the most.

Beautiful women’s clothing topped the list. I had always loved colorful, comfortable, feminine clothing. Having grown up in Beverly Hills with a very well dressed mother and grandmothers (one of whom was a buyer of better sportswear for department stores, and was told that no one had an eye for quality like she had), getting into the clothing business was a natural. I found some cut velvet coats that I loved, and sold them one weekend at a friend’s home. It went so well that I got more pieces and sold them at my home every weekend for the next few months, then started taking them on the road, starting with the Health and Harmony Music and Arts Festival in Northern California.

For a year and a half, I was the executive director of SCCED during the week, and oversaw the GoddessWear collection on weekends. Finally, it seemed that SCCED had put on all the conferences and forums that our steering committee felt were needed at that time, so I shifted to doing GoddessWear full time.

I have loved every part of my work over the past nearly 20 years ~ traveling to beautiful places, taking the clothes to great events, meeting wonderful people everywhere, and helping women find adornments that make them look and feel really special.

My partner William would describe me as “An undercover sorceress who transforms women into Goddesses!” Now, as always, it’s a pleasure to empower you, my friends and customers, with clothing that makes you feel special and brings out the Goddess in you!