Prudence Millinery

Prudence, designer for Prudence Millinery, designs and makes couture hats for major designers all over the world.

A graduate of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and a former assistant buyer for the Associated Merchandising Corporation, Prudence left New York and moved to London in 1986. After working as a free-lance fashion stylist, she trained for several years in couture millinery. All of her hats are made in the classical manner using only traditional millinery techniques. She designed her first collection for spring 1991 under her own label, Prudence Millinery, and received orders from Bergdorf Goodman and Henri Bendel both in New York. Prudence's collaboration with Vivienne Westwood started in 1990. Nowadays, she still creates hat collections for Vivienne Westwood and for many other top designers.