At the moment I’m busy putting together some pretty funky stockings for christmas but I have already got some ideas about what I’d like to make next hat-wise. I’ve been looking through a great book of Erté fashion illustrations taken from the magazine ‘Harper’s Bazar’. Erté was a russian-born artist who worked for the magazine [...]

I was at my local book/music/film store yesterday, I was just about to flick through the Lego Star Wars Encyclopedia when I saw the milliner Stephen Jones on the cover of a big fat book out of the corner of my eye! I was so excited, I almost texted everybody I know to share the [...]

I wasn’t going to blog about this (I wanted to do a more hat related post, it’ll just have to wait a few days), but I nipped into the news agent’s today and picked up the huge special french Vogue (October issue, n°911) which is celebrating it’s 90th birthday – the title on the cover [...]

I’m off to New York this summer (yay!!) so when I saw this book I had to pick it up! The book is a collection of  illustrations by Robinson (german illustrator, 1910-1993), first edited in the sixties it was edited again in 2009. Robinson’s style  is really charming and suits a big city like New York. He is also very [...]

I picked up two very old issues of ‘Le Petit Echo de la Mode’ (the small fashion echo) this weekend, one dating from May 1927 and the other from October 1933 (I payed them five euros each). This magazine first started in 1880, it’s not just a fashion magazine but a general women’s publication – [...]

I got the new  issue of ‘The Hat Magazine’ today, the first of 2010! I haven’t had time to go through it all yet, but I would like to point out that it has a really good chunk dedicated to Melbourne (a whole 32 pages!) and it’s hat makers. There’s  the main photo shoot (like [...]

  Here’s a really great hat book , ‘L’Encyclopédie du Couvre-Chef’ (The Headwear Encyclopedia) which was published a year ago. It has nearly 4000 entries that go from ‘Aamra’ (an arabic word for hat) to ‘Zylindertracht’ (an austrian top hat for women) and in between you have every other hat-related word that exists!! Aswell as [...]

Just had a quick look through the latest issue of  ‘Chapmod’. ‘Chapmod’ is a small magazine (a bit bigger than half an A4 and roughly 40 pages) done by the (french) National Trade Union for Hat, Flower, Feather Manufacturers and Suppliers. They’ve recently started to try and spruce it up a bit but this magazine [...]

Unfortunately, my digital camera has broken so I can’t show you what I’ve been making this past couple of weeks. So, I’ve decided to do a quick review of this book, ‘Uniforms’ by Bill Dunn. The book takes a look at a wide selection of uniforms, past and present. It’s divided into several chapters : [...]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   I recently picked up the last issue of ‘The Hat Magazine’. This magazine comes out four times per year and is really quite  expensive (21 euros).  I buy it because I like to know what’s happening in the hat world (the new designers, the new trends…), it’s good to be upto date! Regular features include trade [...]