Elsie Collins

Female

Pawtucket, RI

United States

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I Love Hats Because?: I adore hats because they are a blank canvas for creativity, and like snowflakes, no two are ever alike. They transform the wearer, and in my opinion, complete the outfit. They add just the right bit of panache!!
About Me: I am an award winning apparel/costume designer, milliner and teacher,(RI State Council on the Arts), and have 40 plus years of couture dress-making and design behind me. Twenty of those years were spent intermittently in the theater, making and designing costumes. I received my training at RISD in apparel design, and have served a 3 yr. apprenticeship to an Italian tailor in my earlier years. My mother, who was a master dressmaker,was my first teacher at the age of ten.
I have also been a brick and mortar shop owner for 8 yrs. in the college district in Prov., RI.(USA) I teach millinery, apparel design, pattern drafting, and related courses in my studio in N. Providence, RI, and create couture millinery under the label of Orsini~Medici Couture Millinery for my Etsy shop, Thistle Cottage Studio, and now my new second Etsy shop, Orsini~Medici Couture Millinery. The Orsini~Medici family crest logo, reflects my families heritage, which can be traced back to the Italian Renaissance.
Online retail at www.orsinimedici1951.etsy.com
Those interested in ongoing millinery classes,can reach me by email at thistlecottagestudio@gmail.com
Website: https://www.orsini-medicicouturemillinery.squarespace.com/pages