Oh boy, what a wonderful city

Last week I went to London and I couldn't help but going to the Stephen Jones' exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Hats seem to be a very personal point of view, they are kind of very "in your face" to the other person - Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones began his career on graduating from Saint Martin's School of Art in 1979. Since then he has produced hat collections twice a year under his label "Stephen Jones Millinery", while also collaborating with some of the most prominent fashion houses and designers of our time, including Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Christian Dior, Marc Jacobs, Comme des Garçons and John Galliano.

Distinct from hat-making, with its large-scale production of standard hat types, millinery focuses on the creation and decoration of elegant, experimetnal and oftenn whimsical hats. Jones permits us to examine the world of millinery from the inside out, following teh life-cycle of a hat from its point of inception in the milliner's mind to its final incarnation atop the wearer's head.
*source: the catalogue of the exhibition

La semana pasada fui a Londres y obviamente no me perdí la exposición de Stephen Jones del museo V&A.

"Los sombreros parecen ser un punto de vista muy personal, son algo muy "en tu cara" para la otra persona" - Stephen Jones dixit

Stephen Jones comenzó su carrera graduándose en Arte por la Escuela de Saint Martin's en 1979. Desde entonces, él ha producido dos colecciones al año bajo su marca "Stephen Jones Millinery", mientras que también colabora con algunos de los diseñadores y casas de moda más grandes de nuestro tiempo: incluyendo Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Christian Dior, Marc Jacobs, Comme des Garçons and John Galliano.
fuente: catálogo de la exposición

Still Life - London 2005, by Stephen Jones

Kirsten Woodward's creation "Sex on the Brain", 1989, London


This hat, owned by Anna Piaggi, is a creation of Bill Cunningham from the Seventies.

Sarah Jessica Parker wore this creation of Philip Treacy in the premier of Sex and the City movie in London last year

A student of the Institut Français de la Mode created this design for Anna Piaggi when she moved house, Paris 2001

The one in the center is a creation of Cristóbal Balenciaga, circa 1960