While accessories traditionally exist to enhance or inform a look, Ms. Lloyd’s headdresses take center stage. At first glance, milliner Ashley Lloyd’s pieces elicit thoughts of curiosity and wonder, but taking a closer look, it’s only fitting Ms. Lloyd’s attention to detail has brought her to where she is today.

From start to finish, Ashley Lloyd’s design process is seemingly natural and organic, giving each one-of-a-kind creation an air of non-commercialism and poise. Taking cues from the wearer, Ms. Lloyd strove to create pieces that double as headdresses and sources of inspiration. It’s this intense connection Ms. Lloyd seems to innately create that has snagged her cameos in fashion presentations and magazine editorials, and produced a thriving business of customer commissions.

Whether it’s pieces of an ocean’s reef delicately painted or feathers of a bird dangling from a stream of flowers, there’s something unpretentious about Ms. Lloyd’s hand-made creations that ‘blurs the lines between fashion and conceptual art’, says author Lesley Blume. Ms. Lloyd attempts to convey a message of rarity and exclusivity with every piece.

Ms. Lloyd currently resides in Westchester, NY and now creates and tends beautiful transportive gardens within the Hudson Valley at Ashley Lloyd Gardens.