Katherine has had a lifelong love of art since the age of four years old, drawing and designing clothes for her Barbie dolls. High school through college, she chose to sculpt challenging sculptures as Egyptian masks with clay, life-size head of an African woman, recirculating Egyptian pool/bath of the Great Sphinx, and other creative items.

Then came sketching, life drawing, painting, collage work, stage design, stage makeup and making costumes; apprenticing for the Arizona State Theater Department and the Arizona Ballet Costume Department. Arizona State College and Northern Arizona University has given her degrees in Fashion Design; Fashion Merchandising and French.

She made a ”copy” of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco’s wedding gown with a skirt improvement (making both the long skirt of the gown with a change of an additional short skirt for dancing) for her to wear at her own wedding.

The major influences upon Katherine’s flare for design came from her mother and grandmother. Tutoring with foreign-born fashion designer, Galina, also a professor at Phoenix College, taught her the art of draping, tailoring and stitchery.

Katherine’s forte comes by way of the “Century Marks” loving the Egyptian, Renaissance, Victorian Eras then rounding it out with the 1900’s through the 1940’s, and now bringing modern day beautiful cards and paper items using both scissors and a die cutting machine to collage images of love and joy to the recipient.

Here are some of her designs

Katherine is a member of Murrieta NAFE. She can be reached at 951-973-0200. Her business name is Katherine the Great Designs.

Website: katherinethegreatdesigns.com

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