Ellen Christine Millinery

Ellen Colon-Lugo has a flair for creating ornate headpieces: Says the milliner, “Something different to me means a patent-leather orchid sitting in the middle of some lime-green fur fashioned as a cocktail hat.” Her “jewel box of a shop” opened in 1995, where in addition to creating the bestselling fur hats ($450-$950) and fur felt cloches ($245) that fly off her shelves each season, she has fashioned hats for such runway shows as 3.1 Phillip Lim, Jil Stuart and United Bamboo.