August is over and the air is already getting nippy in the mornings (and I’m tired of talking about NY). This means that my personal hat making break is over (I went back to my paying hat making job 10 days ago) and I have no excuse for not finishing what I started a while [...]

This summer I’m off to New York for some holidays (but I’ve already told you that in a past post I think…yep, I’m excited). So, I thought I’d tell you folks about the pork pie hat, which for me is a symbolic american hat - though well, it’s not really american (I’m making sense, right?).  [...]

I was just doing some final touching up on my pink straw hat (I posted about it recently) and I  realised what it has been making me think of! Flamenco dancers with all their ruffles, bright colors and cordoban hats! Cordoban hats really are symbolic of Spain, it’s worn for bullfighting and flemenco performers, aswell as for [...]

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 [...]

 
When I want to get down to some hat making  (or cleaning the bathroom!) I always have to put some music on, it helps me get motivated and all. So, obviously, there are a  few CDs that I find most effective. Here are my fav three (in no particualr order), a Genesis compilation album (’Turn it on [...]

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, [...]

I’ve just finished watching my chirstmas dvds of ‘The House of Eliott’, a great TV series made by the BBC between 1991 and 1994. Set in the twenties, the show follows two sisters who create their own haute-couture fashion house with all the professional, personal, and social problems on the side. I just love it! [...]

This week I watched  ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ for the first time, what a great film! I didn’t know anything about it before watching it (apart from, of course, the title song) and I was really surprised. The film is about a pair of silent movie stars, Don and Lina (Gene Kelly and Jean Hagen) and their [...]

So you’ve got Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Hatter and Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat but my favorite imaginary hat related caracter has to be Sophie from the film ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’. ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ was directed by Hayao Miyazaki (japanese animation god) and released in 2004. The story is about Sophie, a young hat [...]