Kathryn Kurt

Playful Elegance

Expressed through dresses, pillows and delightful color palettes

Ode to the Mandarin Dress

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Designs displayed at Saks Fifth Avenue

  • Final touches before show

  • Blazer cape dress

  • Final and prototype displayed at Saks

  • Sewing process

  • In front of my design

  • Strapless dress with buttons

  • 1940s Americana moodboard

  • Draping

Pillows & Pillow Dresses

There’s something I love about making decorative pillows—square ones, round ones, tasseled ones. But what I love even more is using those same thick, intricate upholstery fabrics to create structured dresses. “Upholstery dresses” doesn’t quite capture how they feel: vibrant, playful, cozy, and surprisingly elegant

I call them my pillow dresses

The Peacock collection

  • Moodboard & 1950s inspiration

  • Halter wrap dress

  • Attaching dress shell to lining

  • Double skirt mini dress

  • Inspired over breakfast

Sometimes all a black velvet gown needs is a little imagination

I hand-sewed oversized flowers across the neckline to transform a timeless silhouette into something unexpected. I've worn this dress to countless black-tie events, and it never fails to start a conversation

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Rasberry bubble dress

  • Sketches & moodboard

  • For frolicking

  • Waistline pleating

  • On a dress form

When your best friend asks you for matching dresses, what do you do?

You take her fabric shopping

Designing for Ema Savahl’s Miami Swim Week

  • Design on Miami Swim Week runway

  • Assembling droplets

  • Backstage

  • Design Prototype

  • Designing water droplets out of resin

  • Headpiece

Angel dress

  • Somewhere in the

  • Côte d'Azur, wearing

  • my favorite dress

Wrap dresses can be wrapped in front…

…and wrapped in back

One Valentine's Day, I received a dozen Venus et Fleur roses. They were far too expensive to bloom just once

Flowers and beaded fringe

Instead of sketching, I may just wrap myself in fabric and see what happens

Founder and President of Dartmouth’s Fashion Club

  • Announcing Spring 2023 Show

  • Model fittings organization

  • Fashion Show- Spring 2023

  • Models before Spring 2023 Show

  • Fashion Show- Winter 2023

  • Fashion Show- Fall 2022

TikTok account: scarf styling tutorials

Melodic Moodboards

Some Collection Sketches

Design collaboration with ‘Protect My Shoes’