PHILLIP TREACY by Kevin Davies

***PRESS ALERT***

Phaidon release a new retrospective book on Phillip Treacy today 'Phillip Treacy by Kevin Davies'....want please, birthday coming soon, thankyou:
http://es.phaidon.com/store/fashion-culture/philip-treacy-9780714865270/

VOGUE UK will give you a preview of the inside here:  http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2013/02/05/philip-treacy-book---head-wear-and-work-retrospective/gallery/1#./11

Headwear doesn't come more breath-taking than Phillip Treacy's, a man that made it his life's purpose to transform hats from prim to punk back in the 80s fashion heydays and still pretty much reigns supreme.

I may have actually cried when I first clapped eyes on this footage:

http://heady-stuff.tumblr.com/post/7299347339/nowmillinery-philip-treacys-first-haute  his first couture show in Paris (2000) for which he was the first EVER milliner to be asked to do so by the Syndical Chamber of Haute Couture (Paris Fashion Lords).

 

Sigh.

- michelle

A book about a lot of hats

Hats An Anthology by Stephen Jones

In a minor surge of excitement I ordered "Hats - An Anthology" today by the O so fabulous, world famous milliner, Stephen Jones. 
It accompanied the exhibition of the same name last year at London's showroom of historic cool, the Victoria & Albert Museum. Gawd dangit I wish I could have seen it... and just to further the blow I also found out the exhibition toured Australia earlier this year at Queensland Art Gallery... Ouch - nothing worse than hearing about these things after the event... oh well, I will make do with second best and read the book. I'm looking forward to a juicy feast of hat facts, sumptuous pictures and gorgeous designs, the pictures I have seen so far are totally devine. I will post a review when said hat book drops through the mail.

Yours excited x

P.S. copies are available from the V&A themselves (see link above), Amazon (on offer!) and as always, ebay!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hats-Anthology-Stephen-Jones/dp/1851775579

The Deluxe Edition

And if you want to splash out, there's always the extravagant super special limited edition in luxurious silk and with a signed illustration by Stephen Jones himself. I would love this, but alas, must.save.funds. 

http://www.vandashop.com/product.php?xProd=3445&navlock=1