Lifted Millinery with Katie Allen
Katie Allen is the milliner and designer behind the label Lifted Millinery. Based in North Carolina she takes inspiration from vintage aesthetic creating pieces for living history work, with a nod to contemporary styling in her fashion work.
Katie has a background that includes a Bachelor Degree in Costume Design and Technology and has worked in regional theatre, independent film, and antique garment repair and historic reproduction.
The original inspiration behind the label Lifted Millinery was influenced by Katie’s work in living
Katie is the Vice President of Milliner Guild in the United States. The guild collaborates with its members to showcase key pieces of American History, the latest exhibit The Last Straw: Smashing the Rules for a More explores the straw hat riots. See the exhibition at East Village Hats or online here.
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Gallery
- Black Silk Bonnet created for Mendenhall Homeplace in Jamestown, NC after an original in their collection.
- “Mielikki’s Crown” – Bandeau of black velvet with wired pheasant feathers and gold and bronze leafed antlers, cast from those in a private collection in North Carolina. Created for a local exhibition by Cocoon Gallery in Apex, NC. Photographer Kearsten Leder – @kearstenlederphotography, Model Brittany Lynn – @brittanybreakdown.
- Swirled Sinamay and hand cut and colored silk butterfly hat made for a client for Kentucky Derby. There are dozens of silk butterflies on there and I cut out and hand colored each one. I was so happy when it was completed.😂
- Golden Girl” from the 2021 Guild exhibition “Wear The Gold Hat”
- Headshot – photography by Janet Adamson – @ja_images
- I remember we talk about my already overflowing textile hoarding prior to me doing millinery full time. I’ve been trying to find ways to utilize all my nice vintage wools in my work and have been incorporating them into lovely brims when possible. This was a custom order for a client a few years ago. The brim is a blocked waved shape and it is a three step blocking process to get the wool and foundation layers to bond as one. This and the butterflies are two of my favorite signature techniques I’ve developed over the years.
