All the world’s a fashion stage with The Vestments Group’s direction!
Film and TV costumers Allison Behring and Marcus Allen have long used clothes to develop characters. Now, as the founders of Buckhead-based The Vestments Group, they help clients express their real-life characters, whether walking the red carpet at Cannes or picking produce at Kroger.
“If you can get an actor dressed at 5:30 in the morning in something that they have tried on weeks ago that they they forgot about, you can clothe anyone and make them feel beautiful,” Behring says. “If you can do what we do on set, this is cake.”
Behring, who grew up in New York, and Allen, who considers himself an Atlanta native 30 years after arriving from Southern California, both entered fashion by working retail in high school. But they took different paths to TV sets. She got a fashion merchandising degree from Georgia Southern. He was classically trained as a singer and pursued opera and Broadway.
They came together on the Atlanta set of the “Dynasty” reboot. Behring was an assistant costume designer and wound up being the only person to work on all 108 episodes. Allen was a production assistant whose eye for style earned him a move to costumes.
After “Dynasty” ended in 2022, the two remained friends. Allen worked on magazines and in creative consulting; Behring stuck with TV and film, from the drama “Outer Banks” to the game show “Press Your Luck.”
Another “Dynasty” connection provided a starting point for The Vestments Group.
In March 2025, Behring married director Andi Behring, whom she met on the show. Allen helped dress the wedding party. They also teamed up for “Vampire Diaries” actress Kat Graham’s wedding that August.
Before either ceremony, Behring and Allen decided the wedding work was enough fun to pursue a business marriage.
“Forget about waiting for a production to call,” Behring says. “We’re going to be the production.”
The Vestments Group can consult on an event, a celebrity press tour or a fashion overhaul. Allen and Behring can optimize a current wardrobe or add to it, either by making items themselves or bringing in experts from their network.
“Some people need to just figure out how to wear the things in their closet,” Behring says.
It starts with a style blueprint. “We sort through your closet,” Allen says. “We take the time to go to you and understand what it is that you want.”
They want to help clients show who they are, Behring says. “We’re not trying to change you or get rid of your favorites. If anything, we want to make your favorites better and have more of them.”
They’ve found a need for education— resoling shoes, changing buttons, dyeing fabrics, re-knitting sweaters—and for confidence. “You can put on whatever you want,” Allen says. “Just make sure you gild yourself.”
“Gilding the lily” is Behring’s style. “I’m the opposite of Coco Chanel, who said, ‘Take a piece off before you leave the house.’ I think you put one more on for good measure, just in case.”
Allen, whose style leans toward the preppie, advocates gilding with a fragrance. “It doesn’t have to be expensive. It just has to feel expensive.”
People should rule their wardrobe with love, Behring says. “Whatever you have in your closet, you should absolutely love to wear, to look at, to tell people about, and if you don’t love it, then you should get rid of it.”
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