Katie Gallagher recreates the idyllic circumstances of her forest-fairy childhood in the cold, dark urbanity of counterculture New York, her vision thriving like lush dewy moss amidst the concrete outside of a dive bar. After graduating from RISD and working with ThreeASFOUR and Anna Sui, Katie developed a technical prowess that rivals that of a surgeon.
" Everything I make starts with my paintings, which I’ve done every season prior to construction. I love to try to re-create a three-dimensional version of whatever I’ve drawn; it requires pretty unconventional pattern-making."(elle.com)
But her healing is of the sartorial variety; She is known for her desire to reflect the individual’s soul, their “stories, personalities, moods, ideals and attitudes,” into the structural body of her refined clothing. For Katie, fashion, when executed in the right way, can communicate with an eloquence more powerful than words.
