Jennifer Hoertz is a milliner who creates handmade luxury wearable hats. She learned her craft while studying in London and then working in a millinery studio in New York. Jennifer works with high end designers during New York Fashion Week and is a respected milliner throughout the millinery community. Currently Jennifer is the Vice President of the Milliners Guild in the United States. Jennifer creates collections seasonally as well as special occasion pieces throughout the year and sells her creations to carefully chosen wholesale accounts and direct to consumer via her website and retail pop ups. Her emphasis is on shape and wearability. A hat should be worn by the wearer and accent her style and sensibility. Jennifer uses the finest millinery materials from straw to velour fur felts and hand blocks each piece. Each hat is then completed and trimmed using classic millinery techniques that have been used since the beginning of hat making. All production is completed in her studio based in the Hudson Valley in New York. Each hat is made by Jennifer although a handful are sent out to be sewn by local sewers when needed. Jennifer sources trims and ribbons within the New York garment district and also uses vintage findings and interesting pieces created by other local makers that she meets.