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Headpiece: Vivian Blooms Dress: Jarlo Zana Model: Abigail Porter MUA: The Beauty Shaman Photographer: Richard Cummings Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell

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HEADWEAR

INSPIRATION AND CRAFTSMANSHIP

Kofler creates each flower using the finest natural fabrics of velvet, silk, and linen. With this process, the natural fiber is starched and then hung to dry. The flower petals are then cut out of the stiffened fabric. Each is then crafted by hand. The flowers are manipulated by heat, twisted and turned, then worked into arrangements and attached to the custom-made base.

If some of Vivian Blooms millinery looks good enough to eat, perhaps that is because Kofler didn’t start out as a milliner. Before she began designing and creating headpieces for Vivian Blooms, as a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kofler’s first creative job was in restaurants as a pastry chef in New York City for some years.

Vivian Blooms hand-made millinery has been heralded in London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and the United States. The company has collaborated with Miss Victoria Regina to create the Mavens of Millinery, a Colorado-based collective of milliners creating outdoor Pop-Up Hat Shops in Denver 2020 and for the Kentucky Derby Parties of 2021. Vivian Blooms is currently planning for the Dubai World Cup in spring 2022, introducing the brand to new clients in the United Arab Emirates, and making a statement with creations that beguile and amuse.

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Headpiece: Vivian Blooms Dress: Johanna Ortiz Model: VIctoria Isaac MUA: The Beauty Shaman Photographer: Richard Cummings

Expressions of a Person’s Inner Truth and Personality.

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Headpiece: Vivian Blooms Dress: Oscar de la Renta

Model: VIctoria Isaac MUA: The Beauty Shaman

Photographer: Richard Cummings

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Be an original and be in Bloom.

Headpiece: Vivian Blooms Dress: Jay Godfrey

Model: Abigail Porter MUA: The Beauty Shaman

Photographer: Richard Cummings

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