While in New York, I was lucky enough to go visit the Schmalberg flowermakers! I was shown around and they explained to me how their fabric flowers were made (and as you can see, I was allowed to take photos!). So, here are the basic steps of how the flowers are made :
-first off, each [...]

I just wanted to share another blog with you this mid-week (have you guys noticed I blog twice per week? Hard work!!) .  This blog is held by Marion, where she posts her own photos (which I just happen to really like!!). Here are three words that come to mind when I think of her work [...]

I opened up my mail today and saw that my sister had sent me a link to this article in The Guardian, about Lady Gaga wanting to do an internship with milliner Philip Treacy. I love Gaga - she’s so excentric. Her outfits are flipping amazing and she does wear a lot of headwear, but maybe she [...]

Today  I wanted to share a lovely blog that I discovered recently, Clockwork Lemon. Ok, I love baking cakes and the likes  but I hardly ever actually do it  and when I do, do I ice? do I make cute flowers? do I play around with dye? NO! I’m just pleased that nothing gets burnt and that it tastes [...]

…and all the little birds are singing! Well, not exactly - we were having really hot weather and now it’s raining, feels like autumn…. But I’m pretty sure birds were chirping at some point! So, here are some funky feathered hats! Here are dates and names (from top left, going clockwise) : 1. made in [...]

This weekend I was up in Paris and I went and visited the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at the Petit Palais. It started off badly- even though my friend and I had already bought our tickets on the net we had to queue for almost an hour before being let into the building- but it turned [...]

I  came across a video by Threadbanger the other day, which has milliner Victor Osborne (that’s some of his lovely hats up above) showing how to make a quick  hat block using an old hat and foam gap filler, see it on here on Youtube. I think it is quite an interesting idea, I wonder [...]

I was going through a note pad and found a quote that I had jotted down while at the Vionnet exhibition, here is what she says on design/creativity :
“In truth, can one create easily? In my opinion, I think not, and I believe that the creative process is arduous and almost always thankless. A true creation [...]

Here’s a post about these cool documentaries I picked up the other day. It’s a set of four DVDs by a french guy called Loïc Pringent, who followed the work going on in four different fashion houses (Sonia Rykiel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Proenza Schouler, Fendi) the day before their fashion shows. I found them really interesting, [...]

As everybody probably already knows the great fashion designer Alexander McQueen has left us so I decided to post some pics of  headwear from various of his ready-to-wear shows. McQueen often collaborated with Philip Treacy, the irish hat maker.  Treacy works a lot for fashion designers and celebrities aswell as creating his own collections. It was [...]