Katherine Stephens is Milwaukee’s custom fashion designer, creating high quality, made to fit clothing. Come hear about her design experiences with couture fashion houses, see her sketches, artwork, and fabrics from travels, and learn about how department stores design samples!!!

Katherine is Milwaukee’s hidden secret in our community, creating high quality, made-to-fit clothing, specializing in mother of the bride’s dresses (as they need special fittings) and 2nd marriages (as they want something different…not a run of the mill like David’s Bridal and the big box stores).

Come hear Katherine’s story from her education as an art student from UWM-Madison to working for a gold smith jeweler to moving on to London and working under Tomasz Starzewski, Couture Fashion House. Starzewski designed for Princess Diana.

Katherine served as Starzewski’s intern and will share her “celebrity insights.” She met Margaret Thatcher and much more. Fashion is her passion! Katherine taught at Mount Mary College and designed for Bon-Ton (Boston Store), and her own design house Sophisticated Rose for over 20 years.

Katherine will showcase her client hand sketches (croquis), prints of artwork in fashion illustration from Mount Mary, pictures of her studio, talk about accounts such as Kohls and Macy’s and how those companies design samples. She will bring a small variety of designer samples and a special surprise from the Ebony Fashion Show from the Milwaukee Art Museum, including fabrics from her travels to Rome and France–Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, and Missoni, Italian fashion fabrics.

Katherine is very energized to talk to our group as she loves designing and sewing!! Please come. You do not want to miss this February presentation.

Learn more about Katherine at https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Sewing—Alterations/Sophisticated-Rose-241327225971398/