A new exhibition in Paris showcases the magic of milliner Stephen Jones, who made hats for Princess Diana.
Before the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer in July 1981, the club kid and singer Boy George went to Stephen Jones to see about a hat to wear to a party planned for the big day. “Of course, he didn’t have any money, so we did an exchange,” Jones recalled recently. “He worked for me for two weeks, sewing, and I made him a hat.” That’s how it was in the Britain of the late 1970s and ’80s, a period of high unemployment and pessimism that helped to ferment punk and the New Romantics.
“I was making hats for Steve Strange on one side and for the Princess of Wales on the other,” Jones recalled. “We had the wife of the governor of the Bank of England, but we had one fabulous lady of the night who bought the most expensive hats — and paid cash. And she looked great.” By 1984, Jones’s inventive hats had captured the attention of Jean Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler, and the milliner’s dream — any milliner’s — of working with the best of the best in Paris had become reality.
There are about 400 works in the exhibition, including more than 170 hats. Curators have re-created Jones’s studio, his profession’s tools, and a video showing him making hats from scratch. The exhibit is worth seeing if you’re in Paris, perhaps especially in light of the pressures on the craft tradition, and on creativity.
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