ARTIFICE aka Pikke Allen is a designer, costumer and fashion blogger working in Los Angles, Paris, and New York. As a multi-media designer and stylist, her work crosses all media platforms from pop culture to science; her credits range from Ballet, Commercials, Feature Film, Television series, Off-broadway theatre, the Red Carpet. Her visual work in styling, costumes and commentary emerge from various design sources and research as well as her yearly travel to Paris, France where she reports on the Paris collections each year.
She writes or publishes various blogs including an Art and Culture blogs and online magazines: ARTIFICE-Magazine, Just Luxe.com, Verte-Magazine, Paris Adventuress.
Principal/COO of the ARTIFICE ATELIER AGENCY, she consults with both French and American boutique luxury brands in the area of Creative Direction and Branding Strategy for both Digital and traditional media.
For further information about Agency projects: http://www.artifice-magazine.com.
_____________________________________________
Pikke Allen Costume Designer, Stylist, Design Consultant: Entertainment CREDITS in Film, Television, Commercials, Live Theater, Dance
Oscar’s 2015 Vanity Fair Party, Melanie Mar for Hayari Paris
Oscar’s 2014: Vanity Fair, Melanie Mar for HAYARI Paris
Oscar’s 2013: Red Carpet Placements for HAYARI Paris
Oscar’s 2012: Red Carpet Placement for Hayari Paris Couture, Oscar’s “The Descendents” winner of Best Screenplay
The Tony Danza Show (Pilot and Series) Tri Star Television (Supervisor) 24 Episodes Jaqueline St. Anne, Designer
Revlon Cancer Center: 2005 Benefit of Stars (Supervisor) Broadway Stars Dress by Sue Wong, Pikke Allen, Supervisor
Hudson Street (Series) Tri Star Television (Supervisor) 24 episodes – Jaqueline St. Ann, Designer, Pikke Allen, Supervisor
Sister, Sister (Series) (Supervisor) Paramount Television, 1998. 12 Episodes
Additional Television: MCI/Tony Danza/National Commercial (Costume Designer)”Wedding Guy”
Tango (film) PBS Mystery Series ( Costume Designer)* special project
Dream On (series) HBO Productions (Assistant Designer) Mark Bridges, Designer
Conversations (Film Short) (Sony Pictures) (Assistant Designer) James Earl Jones
PYTKA Project (National Commercial) (Assistant Designer)
Motherly Love (Mow) (Assistant Designer) ABC Television
Suspicion of Innocence (MOW) (Assistant Designer) ABC Television
My Talk Show (Pilot) (Imagine Television) Stylist for Pilot
What a Dummy (Pilot) Universal Television Costume Supervisor
“Straight Talk on Menopause” PBS National Special (for Mrs. Gil Cates)
Las Vegas Tour/Tony Danza (Costume Supervisor) Desert Inn Crystal Room
C o s t u m e Illustrator
NBC “Passions” (series) (Costume Illustrator) 2001-2/ Designer: Jane Janiger
C o s t u m e r – Set Costumer
Las Vegas (series) Costumer – On Call 2004 Season
King of Queens (series) Part-time costumer/Tristar
Tie that Binds (feature) (costume Key) Interscope/Hollywood Pictures
All for Love (feature) (Costume Key) Alive Home Video
Adventures of Superman (Costumer/Set/Principal Talent) WB Television
The Secret Service Guy (Pilot) (Set) Fox Television
Phenom (series)(Set/shopper) Tri Star Television
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Series) Set Costumer, Jane Seymour
Perfect Crimes (MOW) CBS/Productions (cutter/fitter) James Farino
Costume Specialties/Painter/Dyer/Crafts/Textiles/Age
American Dreams/special project/episode I (series) “School Uniforms”
The Wiz – Tokyo Show – Costume Painting for Flying Monkeys Troop
Blankman (feature) Costume Dyer/Painter Sony Pictures
Day of the Dead (sequel) (Feature) Laurel Pictures
Demolition Man (feature) (Specialty Textile Painter/Shoes/Crafts) Warner Brothers
Passions/(daytime soap) Specialty Costume Crafts-costume shop assistant
Legitimate Theater, Costume design, Make-Up and Hair Design
Williamstown Theater Festival (Costume Supervisor) Summer Season 2008
American Ballet Theater (Assistant Draper/Workroom) (Various)(New York)
Mark Taper Forum (Assistant Designer) Season 1987
Joffrey Ballet (Assistant Draper) Workroom “Romeo and Juliet”
Broadway Shows: “Cats”, “Song & Dance”, Ass’t.Draper (New York)
Off Broadway Production “Jolsen” produced by Long Island University (New York)
Williamstown Theatre Festival: Intern during Graduate School. (Design Intern)
Faculty Positions – Staff and Guest Designer:
Multi-Media Film: Opened at UCSB NANO TECH center, “A multi-plot audience generated Film” 2006 PHD Project – Advisor for students in Production, and filming.
Westmont College (2007-8) UC Santa Barbara (2007) Santa Barbara City College (2008)
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising*, Los Angeles, CA (2006) (2007) Guest Faculty “Film and Fashion Design”
Self Portrait of Marie Antoinette’s portraitist – Marie Vigee Le Brun
