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Crowning Glories.(Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones)
Byline: editor: Tonne Goodman HAMISH BOWLES
Star milliner Stephen Jones curates a magical history of his craft for London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
Millinery maestro Stephen Jones has been consulting the hat archives of London's storied Victoria and Albert Museum for his work since he was a fashion student in the 1970s. During each visit, he was limited to studying a maximum of four pieces, so when the curators recently asked whether he'd like to view the museum's entire hat-and-headdress collectionsome 4,000 holdingshe leaped at the opportunity. A Jones couture collection was not the only result of that inspirational visit, however. The museum's "Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones" (February 24May 31) celebrates the craft, history, and drama of millinery through the designer's idiosyncratic eye.
Jones has exhaustively trawled international museums and private collections for more than 300 displays, which run the gamut from a circa600 B.C. Egyptian mask of Anubis and a fifteenth-century boiled-leather beret ("That could be Yohji") to the creations of emerging milliners, including Noel Stewart, Justin Smith, and Albertus Swanepoel. Michael Howells, theater designer, movie art director, and creator of the consistently breathtaking Galliano and Dior fashion-show ...
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