Since the recent royal wedding, couture hats and headpieces are gaining more attention than ever before. Featured on guests from Victoria Beckham to Sarah Ferguson's daughter, Princess Beatrice, whimsical and sculptural hats are now splashed across the pages of fashion magazines, advertisements, and blogs. The trademark accessory of fashion muse Isabella Blow, couture hats were among the most talked about elements of the recent Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met, and a Stephen Jones Couture Hats exhibition is running at Bard from September 2011 to April 2012.
Couture Hats, a luscious gallery of modern fashion designs, will be unlike anything else on the market, artfully showcasing the most innovative work of master milliners around the world, including the likes of Stephen Jones, Philip Treacy, Anthony Peto, and Nasir Mazhar, designers who have all constructed numerous hats and headpieces for members and guests of the royal family, as well as celebrities like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Daphne Guinness.
Already endorsed by the creative director of Givenchy, Ricardo Tisci, each chapter of COUTURE HATS is devoted to a particular designer or design house, providing biographical information, professional philosophies, trade secrets, and intimate interviews. With hundreds of full-page, full-colour photographs, these gorgeous modern hats include gravity-defying sculptural shapes to delight and inspire refined women, modern fashionistas, designers, students, aspiring milliners, and costume lovers. Even for those without the gall to wear such daring pieces, these hats will fascinate all creative minds.
Among the designers included are: Alexander McQueen, Stephen Jones, House of Flora, Heather Huey, Tour de Force, Philip Treacy, Àngel Coll, Manuel Albarràn, Claudia Schulz, Edwina Ibbotson, Tolentino Haute Hats, Noel Stewart, Dina Pinkham, Charlie Le Mindu, Simon Ekrelius, Anthony Peto, Triviàl NYC, Louise Green, Piers Atkinson, Prudence Milinery, Emma Yeo and Nashir Mazhar.
