Pied Beauty Studios is a Brooklyn-based fashion company that offers full-service design, styling, and tailoring services for private clients, industry professionals, and brands.
They offer an inclusive environment and expert service to clients seeking specialized styling and an unusual edge to help set them apart from the crowd and feel at home in their clothing.
The brand’s name comes from the Victorian-age poem, “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. In the poem, Hopkins celebrates things that are “pied,” meaning they are dappled, have spots or uneven coloring, as beautiful in their infinite variation. The poem gives thanks to our creator for giving us these differences.
Pied Beauty Studios stands for all the spots, scars, freckles, flaws, and imperfections that make us different– the rough raw edges and curled burnt crusts that create interest and allow us to stand out.
What makes us different makes us beautiful.
Pied Beauty Studios is run by award-winning fashion designer, Chrissie Dowler. With 25 years of experience in the NYC fasion industry as a designer and director for multimillion-dollar companies, she has gained vast experience in both design and running a business successfully. She is a multi-talented createve with capabilities that span fashion design, product design, illustration and fine arts. Pied Beauty was created out of the vision of bringing her experience to diverse, more alternative markets.
Pied Beauty Studios knows the importance of listening to their clients and customers in order to customize the right solutions and products. They continuously learn from their customers with each varied project. By being intuitive, patient and collaborative, they are able to learn from the different perspectives and opportunities each client brings, and to apply that wisdom to their next customer. Pied Beauty brings this combination of experience and curiosity to every single project.
As the brand's name conveys, Pied Beauty Studios is inspired by the differences in people. Transformation Tailors is a service offered for the trans/non-binary community to offer a safe space, quality tailoring, and advice on fit and style that aligns with the client's gender identity and expression. Pied Beauty Studios also excels in designing and talioring for plus size people and other body types that fall outside of the industry's standard.
Pied Beauty Studios has a warm, welcoming vibe. They treat every customer equally and with the same amount of hospitality they would treat royalty. This enables them to connect with their customers intimately as they work on special sentimental outfits such as wedding gowns, custom made suits, and stage ensembles for performers and celebrities. They are well-known locally, and are active in their community of Flatbush, Brooklyn, bringing people together with in-person fashion events, and on social media.
People come to Pied Beauty Studios when they are seeking something unique. The specialized stylings of their design comes from their passion for interesting fabrics, colors, and details. Their creativity goes beyond the everyday looks by combining artistic elements such as hand-painted fabric. Their multidisciplinary approach means they are able to be imaginative, unusual and avant garde.
The designers of Pied Beauty Studios are trained in the classical traditions of the tailoring craft. They skillfully combine the traditional techniques with modern sensibilities. They have extensive knowledge of fabric qualities, construction, couture work, and they conduct professional fittings.
Pied Beauty Studios is recognized by NYC.gov as an essential part of NYC's zero waste initiative, helping New Yorkers reach the goal of sending zero waste to landfills. Their services that can save existing clothing including mending moth holes, stabilizing rips and tears, replacing broken zippers, and upcycling styles. They also host local clothing swaps in queer, plus-size and other communities.
Pied Beauty Studios offers sewing and mending classes to children and adults. They educate their customers on how to shop for longer lasting products by discussing durability and sustainability of fabrics, as well as how to care for investment items. They list brands that people should avoid becuase of humanitarian abuse at factories, and environmental issues.
Chrissie Dowler is an Accomplished NYC fashion designer, fine artist, and illustrator. She is an alumna of FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she got her BFA in Fashion Design. She has worked as a designer and director for multiple NYC brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Liz Claiborne, PINK, and Henri Bendel. She is in love with city life, always inspired by the lively culture, people, music, and the endless possibilities.