Emily is a multidisciplinary artist-designer-maker, specialising in contemporary sculptural forms, from hats and garments to interiors and installations, that use and preserve traditional millinery techniques. Through a process of  experimentation and disruption, informed by conceptual narratives and a contemporary design lens, Emily produces pieces that are beautifully crafted, sculpturally elegant and blur the lines between fashion, art and sculpture. With hat making on the Red List of Endangered Crafts in the UK, Emily explores how traditional  techniques, combined with her training in pattern cutting and garment construction, can expand beyond hat making into garments, interiors, installation, and sculptural art. Her practice focuses on narrative through craft, placing a high value on product quality and sustainability. Emily’s interest in millinery stems from a fascination with the interaction between body and space, and how hats can be understood as extensions of self.

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Emily trained in womenswear, graduating with a distinction from the MA Womenswear programme at the London College of Fashion in 2024. She is also an alumna of the CHANEL & King’s Foundation Métiers d’art Millinery Fellowship, in partnership with le19M, a pioneering programme preserving the heritage craft of millinery in the UK. Here she had the opportunity to learn from highly skilled artisans at Maison Michel in Paris, as well as interning with the world-renowned Philip Treacy in London.

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Emily has won multiple awards including the national Anne Tyrrell award (2020), and the global Arts of Fashion Competition (2021), winning the opportunity to intern with Maison Lemarié, one of CHANEL’s Métiers d'art at le19M. It was here that Emily truly discovered the savoir-faire of couture which she has placed at the very heart of her studio practice. Her work has been exhibited in multiple art exhibitions, including at the OXO Tower and, most recently, the ‘Swoop Cap’ from her first millinery collection, ‘Sculpted by Nature’, was exhibited in London as a shortlisted entry to the 2026 John Ruskin Prize.