Stephen Jones - Chapeaux Artiste, Palais Galleria

 

Yesterday 

I went to the preview of British hat artist, 

Tip Your Hat

Shall we tip our hats to the last days of summer?
I got a desperate plea from a PBer yesterday to PLEASE show anything, architecture, clothes, books anything but food.
The Brits do love their hats.
And their love of hats goes way back, even to this 1775 Lowestoft cane handle.
'Course you might have to go to Ascot to actually see someone wearing a hat in the UK. Here's that stunner again in the Underground.

Where else but in London do you see a plethora of...

Cocktail hats?

Even a decorative headband becomes a 'Hat' in the UK.

Butler & Wilson on Fulham road has been creating fantasy hats forever...

That hat again in Harvey Nichols - worth a second look non?

Naturallement, the French, who wouldn't be caught dead wearing a hat, think nothing of throwing some jambon on an assiette and calling it a chapeau.

Put a bow in your hair in Paris and it equals a hat.

A fantasy hat from Kensington Garden Palace...

You can always settle for a faux paper hat...

At the V&A...

I hope Maxim's will never lose their charmant chapeau rouge...

I rarely wear hats.

I do have a battered, ripped-up old straw hat I've wore this summer when out painting..

Do you wear hats?

Shall we all tip our hats to summer 2010?

I hope yours was a good one.

BON WEEK-END!

Liberty of London

Christine in Anglet said...J'adore la photo de la porte rose du dentiste! When we were in London a while back we saw Bentleys sitting out front matching the doors in the same revissante colors.

No matching Bentleys seen yet Christine, but this gum pink roadster certainment belongs to Fridays dentiste n'est-ce pas?

You absolutely must have a proper scarf, if you insist upon tearing around London in an open car and the best place to get it is of course.

Liberty of London on Regent street. Don't even think about looking elsewhere.

Small and compact, you can easily and quite happily waste an afternoon going from floor to floor. There are only 'lifts' by the way. Don't bother searching for escalators. Libertys is too small for that sort of thing.

Do not get the idea that Libertys is oldie worldie. Not at all!

Fashion-wise Liberty is absolutement au courant and cool and hip etc. And rather high end.

Hats are everywhere, so come prepared. London is keeping Panama in business.

How appropriate the teacups are sitting atop hat boxes.

There's an entire floor devoted to teacups at Libertys.

These are vintage deco and each is a different design. Prices are not all that bad either.

How clever of Liberty to display books amidst the cups?

There's a slew of 'Ladies' books as well. How-tos for young things so they won't make horrid errors out in society. Titles such as, Don'ts For Gardeners, Never Explain Never Complain Never do Anything Eccentric, Nanny's Wisdom, Etiquette for Coffee Lovers, Ettiquette for Gentlemen, Mangles Mops and Feather Brushes, Why Not Eat Insects etc. are essential if you're going to do the right thing no doubt.

Repettos has kindly collaborated with Liberty using their famous mille fleur prints to create darling yet very comfortable shoes.

And don't forget to stop in Libertys huge bath department on the 3rd floor. Everything and more you could possibly dream of for a lovely, long soothing bath you'll require, once you get home from rushing around town.

Mille fleur showercaps are a must-have while you're enjoying a good soak in the tub.

I was too late for Libertys tea salon, but it looked such fun.

If you're planning on stepping out in the evening, whatever you do, do not get yourself up like a 'dog's dinner'. There must be a book at Libertys on avoiding such horrors. Of course I am madly busy framing my bits and pieces to hang at the 'Private View' tomorrow. If you're planning on attending, do make sure you tell me.

Well Talley Ho etc.!

Hatless in Paris

It's one of my observations that Parisien women don't wear hats no matter how frigid the weather (Feels like: 16°F)
Warm puffy coat, snazzy studded bag. ✅
Cosy furry boots. ✅ 
But hatless.
Giant posters of Kate Moss with supremely messy bedhead, advertising her new bag line for Longchamps is not helping.
Even my pictures have a blue cast, it's that cold 🥶 

Big puffy coat up over the ears - hair sticking out exposed to the elements.

Lots of exposed ponytails in Paris.

Another one. Both mother and child are hatless. Men too.

Me, I am wearing a hat 🧢 It's glued to my head.

I'm American so I can get away with murder.

Meanwhile shop windows are full of hats like these big blue cabbages 🥬 on top of the manequins...

At Sonia Rykiel's - a simple Kelley green plastic disk is popped on top.

More delicious disks at Gerard Mulot - tarte citron & tarte l'orange.

Why not add a touch of red to your bedhead?

Or go for the Carmen Miranda effect - totalmente fruity.

BONJOUR HATLESS PARISIENS!