Emily is a multidisciplinary artist-designer-maker reinterpreting and preserving heritage millinery techniques through a contemporary sculptural lens. With hat-making on the Red List of Endangered Crafts in the UK, Emily works with heritage millinery techniques through hats and garments. She is also currently exploring how these techniques can extend beyond the body into installation and sculptural artefacts.

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Emily’s interest in millinery stems from her fascination with the relationship between body and space, and how hats can be understood as extensions of self. Through a process of experimentation and disruption, informed by conceptual narratives and contemporary design, Emily creates pieces that are beautifully considered and sculpturally elegant. Her multidisciplinary practice explores narrative through craft and challenges the boundaries between fashion and sculpture.

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Emily is an alumna of the CHANEL & King’s Foundation Métiers d’Art Millinery Fellowship, in partnership with le19M, where she trained with the artisans of Maison Michel in Paris and interned with the renowned milliner Philip Treacy. Before this, she graduated with distinction from the MA Womenswear programme at the London College of Fashion.​

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Emily has won multiple awards, including the national Anne Tyrrell Award (2020) and the global Arts of Fashion Competition (2021), which led to an internship with Maison Lemarié, one of CHANEL’s Métiers d’Art at le19M. Her work has been exhibited at the OXO Tower and, most recently, her Swoop Cap from the collection ‘Sculpted by Nature’ was shortlisted for the 2026 John Ruskin Prize.

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Alongside her own practice, Emily works as a freelance milliner, designer and bridal seamstress. She works closely with Awon Golding Millinery on seasonal and bridal collections, customer orders and hats for Robert Wun shown in Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris.