ABOUT KATE LAMBERT
British model, fashion designer, singer, and entrepreneur. Known professionally as "Kato," she is often referred to as "the supermodel of steampunk" and steampunk's "it" girl. In 2007, she founded the steampunk clothing company, "Steampunk Couture," producing high-quality, custom-fit clothing and accessories catering specifically to the steampunk genre. She has earned more than 900,000 followers on her katopunk Instagram account.
She left school at 16 and finished her final two years at a tech college where she specialized in fine art. She completed a course in fashion and textiles at the South West Wales School of Art in Carmarthen.
She launched her first business, Moshka, where she made and sold dread hair falls. She also teamed with photographer Chloe Barcelou and launched Mori Girl Clothing, the first Mori Kei clothing company outside Japan.
She was born in Wales but emigrated to the United States in 2007 and became a U.S. citizen in 2019. She is the third of four daughters born to wildlife painter Terence Lambert and his wife, a school headmistress/principal. She grew up in a Victorian rectory behind a 13th-century cemetery, and credits this for her love of Victorian style.
In August 2015, she served as one of the official judges of the GSN reality television game show series Steampunk'd, hosted by Jeannie Mai .
