Ellene Warren

For virtually all of her life, Ellene Warren has dedicated herself to expressing her concepts of beauty through fine art, design and the art of adornment. Self taught in the needle arts and trained as an artist from the age of five, Ellene spent time as an art major at Washington University in St. Louis before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 19. Her first job was making custom leather clothing at North Beach Leather on Sunset Boulevard and it was there she began accumulating what would become a long list of celebrity clientele.

During the 70's and 80's, her West Hollywood Boutique attracted the world's most beautiful and exciting women, who were drawn to Ellene's sexy, classy and sometimes outrageous, but always unique style. Her celebrity clientele included Raquel Welch, Diana Ross, Victoria Principal, Lisa Hartman, and Stevie Nicks. Ellene even dressed a few fortunate men, including the musical groups Earth, Wind and Fire, Kiss, Loggins and Messina and Michael Jackson.

View a collection of promotional postcards from Ellene's boutique here.

In 2001 Ellene discovered the world of "cyber knitting" when she started researching knitting machines on the net. Excited by the possibility of making her own fabrics, she pursued knitting with the same passion and dedication she devotes to all her interests, and within months had designs accepted for publication in machine and hand knitting magazines.

In addition to creating one of a kind, wearable art, Ellene also offers a collection of patterns for those who wish to knit or crochet their own wearable art. Ellene's patterns can be found here and her blog is here.

Ellene's current collection is available in the e-boutique.