2012年8月26日星期日

From a Feather Bonnet to A High-Heeled Headpiece

British milliner Stephen Jones has been inspired by everything from craggy Utah cliffs to the official London Underground map. He has collaborated on runway shows with Marc Jacobs and Dior. His customized chapeaus for the haute-fashion set cost upward of $1,400 a head."Hats: An Anthology," which opens at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Mass., on Sept. 8, includes selections from the V&A and loans from other institutions (the Louvre and the Brooklyn Museum among them). The pieces date back some 900 years and include a selection of Mr. Jones's own work from the early 1980s to the present.

Hats as fashion accessories started with men but flourished in creations made for women in the 18th and 19th centuries. The hat has become a rarer accessory since the 1960s, notes Valerie Steele, a director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, as "women's hair became the focus of fashion and fashion as a whole became more casual." Today, high-end millinery is a niche market.

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