Marcus Allen and Allison Behring Launch The Vestments Group to Bring Costume Design Rigor to the Global Elite
Marcus Allen and Allison Behring Launch The Vestments Group to Bring Costume Design Rigor to the Global Elite
Costume Designers Marcus Allen (Creative Direction, Planning & Press Management; The Knot, Lifetime) and Allison Behring (Yatto) Outer Banks, Passengers, Dynasty) announce the launch of The Vestments Group, a wardrobe architecture firm translating the technical discipline of Film and Television Costume Design into the private estates of the global elite.
The firm’s "Production-First" standard was established during the strategic execution of Kat Graham & Bryant Wood’s landmark wedding cover story for the current Winter Issue of The Knot. While Marcus Allen Creative led the comprehensive creative direction, narrative development, and press command, The Vestments Group applied cinematic costume protocols, managing complex wardrobe logistics, on-site tailoring infrastructure for the bride and groom, and "last looks" for the wedding party. The firm further solidified the event’s visual continuity by designing and executing custom looks for the entire event staff. By merging the duo’s collective decades of blockbuster production rigor and executive media strategy, the firm provides a sophisticated solution for constructing and safeguarding the visual legacies of the world’s most influential individuals.
Following an editorially featured 2025 wedding in The Knot’s Winter Issue, Marcus Allen Creative introduces an atelier-based studio practice through The Vestments Group, bridging costume design and personal style. Rooted in film and television costume disciplines, the atelier applies production-level rigor to wardrobe, image, and environment across private, corporate, and cultural contexts.
Recognized for editorial-level event production and styling, Marcus Allen Creative’s Creative Direction and Planning is recently featured in The Knot’s six-month Winter issue, highlighting the wedding of actress Kat Graham and Bryant Wood. Behind the wedding’s wardrobe coordination and staff styling was a newly formalized studio practice. Co-founders Marcus Allen and Allison Behring launched The Vestments Group, a styling firm redefining how wardrobes are designed, maintained, and lived with.
Rather than treating clothing as a series of singular statements, The Vestments Group views style as something practiced daily-shaped by repetition, habit, and context. Operating at the intersection of costume design and personal styling, the studio approaches wardrobe as an integrated system designed to support how individuals live, work, and appear over time. Drawing from film and television production disciplines, the atelier applies the discipline and rigor of costume design — including continuity, function, and authorship — to both costumes and real-world wardrobes that must perform across shifting roles and environments. Working alongside an extended network of tailors, craftspeople, makers, and artisans, The Vestments Group functions as a full-scale studio, equipped to design and execute complex wardrobe and costume systems at scale.
“Production is theater. Styling is identity. Costume design is narrative,” said Marcus Allen, co-founder of The Vestments Group. “Each discipline operates at a different scale, but all demand precision and authorship. The Vestments Group brings those disciplines together in a way that allows clothing to endure beyond a single moment.”
“The atelier model gives us the ability to treat wardrobe as a living system,” said Allison Behring, co-founder of The Vestments Group. “It’s not just about how something looks in isolation, but how it functions, evolves, and holds meaning across time and context.”
THE VESTMENTS GROUP
Co-Founded by Marcus Allen Creative & Allison Behring
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
Established: 2025
Mission
To redefine the role of wardrobe by merging the disciplines of costume design, personal styling, and production, creating wardrobes that live beyond the moment and evolve with their wearer.
Vision
Founded by television and film veterans, The Vestments Group is defining a new standard for the modern wardrobe atelier, a studio model that unites continuity styling, archival curation, bespoke design, concierge membership, executive image consulting and costume design under one system. Treating clothing as architecture for identity, the atelier bridges the cinematic with the lived, applying the discipline of production to the language of personal and collective style. Grounded in quality, longevity, and mindful sourcing, The Vestments Group creates systems that give clothing continuity and meaning beyond the moment.
Core Services
Wardrobe Continuity & Atelier Systems — Long-term management, maintenance, and curation for private, professional, and performance wardrobes
Concierge Membership Program — On-call styling memberships providing wardrobe planning, sourcing, and event preparation
Executive & Brand Consulting — Visual identity alignment for public-facing professionals and creative teams
Custom & Archival Sourcing — Vintage, runway, and bespoke garments selected for longevity and narrative cohesion
Event & Production Styling — Editorial and cinematic wardrobe application for live events, weddings, and brand activations
Costume Design for Television and Film — Select costume design engagements supporting character continuity, narrative clarity, and long-form production systems
Founders
About Marcus Allen Creative Founded in 2009, Marcus Allen Creative is a multidisciplinary studio specializing in high-level creative direction, planning, and press management . Marcus Allen’s career is defined by editorial precision and production leadership, with credits spanning CW’s Dynasty, Vogue Portugal, The Knot, and Lifetime Networks. Most recently, the studio managed the full lifecycle of the project, Creative Direction, logistical architecture to the global press rollout featured in The Knot’s Winter 2025-2026 issue.
About Allison Behring (Alli Yatto) Allison Behring is a premier Costume Designer with extensive experience in the Hollywood studio system. Her portfolio includes major motion pictures and global television hits such as Amazon’s Runarounds, Sony’s Passengers, Netflix’s Outer Banks, and The CW’s Dynasty. Her practice centers on the intersection of narrative structure and large-scale wardrobe systems, bringing a veteran production eye to the management of high-value private inventories and cinematic character continuity.
Contact
The Vestments Group
Press: press@thevestmentsgroup.com
Info: info@thevestmentsgroup.com
Website: www.thevestmentsgroup.com
Marcus Allen Creative-
info@marcusallencreative.com
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