Friday, October 18, 2024

Stephen Jones - Chapeaux Artiste, Palais Galleria

 
Yesterday 

I went to the preview of British hat artist, 


Probably the HOT 🔥 (fashion) show of the Paris 🍁 season.

400 works in the exhibition - Jone’s famous red wool beret for Lady Diana.

Including more than 170 hats.

As a young boy Stephen Jones was mad about Paris after trips with his family to France 🇫🇷 - his sequin beret topped with an Eiffel Tower. 
The exhibition focuses on Jones close ties with French Couture 🧵 
He collaborated with designers Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, 
Thierry Mugler, Comme des Garçons, Louis Vuitton, Claude Montana etc. I wish the Palais Galleria did not place black pieces against black walls 🙏 Is this a French thing? 🫤 MAD/musee des arts décoratifs does it too, making it difficult to photograph 📷
A room midway in the exhibition illustrates with window boxes
Jones’ brilliant creative process from research 
To first sketches. LOVE ❤️ this hat made of sketches ✍️
To first fabrics to first shapes 
To the final creation. This room alone is worth the price of admission. 
Plus a video in Fr/Eng as Jones creates a special occasion hat for a demanding client. Jones says,“The British want Frenchy hats & the French want British-styled hats!”
There is always lightness, wit and whimsy to Jones’ hats like this triple Mad Hatter’s hat 🎩 In 2012, I showed Jones’ exhibit in New York at Bard Center.
The UK celebrates 🎉 designer Jones with a special stamp 🍾
You can buy your own Stephen Jones perfect beret in the Galleria museum shop (59€)
I haven’t begun to show what’s in this exhibition. I hope you get to visit the Palais Galleria - it’s on till March 3, 2025.
I left the Galleria a tad blitzed in the drizzle…
Across the street at patisserie Cyril Lignac
The Pastries all looked like hats! The shapes are perfect non? Bonne Vendredi dear PBers 🎩 👒 🧢 

25 comments:

  1. Love the sequin beret with the Eiffel Tower! In the 50's my Mother always wore a hat to church. She looked great in hats. Too bad I don't.🗼❤️👒

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    1. Anonymous10:01 AM

      Hats used to be de rigueur…it’s sad we don’t use this adornment so much except in Winter 🥶

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    2. Anonymous1:26 PM

      My mother made her own hats - such a bit of whimsey.

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  2. Bonnie L9:57 AM

    Love hats, but they don’t always love me! The burgundy, slouchy, lush felt hat Jones is holding in his hands would be my first choice. My second would be a Cyril Lignac pastry…they are all very chapeau-like! Yum!

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    1. Anonymous10:02 AM

      I feel the same way but I think if STEPHEN JONES designed you a hat 👒 , you would be very happy 🎉

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    2. Anonymous11:17 AM

      PS Thar red slouchy hat is one of his signature designs

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  3. Anonymous11:15 AM

    Excellent illustrations, thank you
    Kirk

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  4. Anonymous11:18 AM

    Just BRILLIANT, dear Carol! I would so love this exhibit as well. Who knows, perhaps I can get back in time. This was a GLORIOUS PB!!!!

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    1. Alaina Warren Zachary11:19 AM

      The above comment is me.

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    2. Anonymous1:23 PM

      You would certainly LOVE ❤️ it Alaina. Very OTT, very creative

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  5. Dorrance2:18 PM

    Love your watercolors!

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  6. Linda Scott2:38 PM

    Bonjour Carol
    I love this post and most of all I love your pastries🍮 hat designs!!!
    Merci Carol for another informative fun post

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    1. Anonymous4:45 PM

      Thank you Linda,
      Jones did not use any Paris pastry shapes…don’t know why?

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    2. Anonymous3:19 AM

      I don't know why either! 🗼🍁🍂

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  7. Anonymous2:49 PM

    Great post on hats Carol. I love them. But I love much the pastry shop of Cyril Lignac. Superbe!

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  8. Anonymous4:43 PM

    Wow.... so lovely!!♥
    NormaJean

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  9. sukicart6:21 PM

    Never wear hats much anymore as I have a small head and most are too big & silly looking on me but I did buy a baseball cap from Messy Nessy Cabinet a few weeks ago and will wear it.

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    1. Anonymous11:25 PM

      Ah…but a small head is perfect for certain hats, especially Stephen Jones Suki.

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  10. Anonymous11:54 PM

    Here’s a conversation with Suzy Menkes
    Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-conversations-with-suzy-menkes/id1509054125?i=1000472903543

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  11. Anonymous5:56 AM

    A Paris Breakfast letter hat is in order, non?❤️😘🇨🇦

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    1. Anonymous12:42 PM

      A folded paper hat perhaps? 😀

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  12. Anonymous10:18 AM

    I loved to see a bit of the show. Thank you! Hope all is well. Jo-Anne Echevarria-Myers Cape May and Chelsea Arts.

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    1. Anonymous11:54 PM

      You are a member of CAC? 👏👏 Have we met?

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  13. Anonymous5:18 PM

    CHATEAU ARE STILL DERIGURE FOR SOME OF US...ON A DAILY BASIS !
    EVEN HERE IN BAY AREA OF CALIFORNIA....JACQUELYN GOUDEAU

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    1. Anonymous1:08 AM

      Chapeau 🎩 Jacquelyn !

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