Stephen Jones OBE is one of the world’s most radical and important milliners of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He designs hats for couturiers and celebrities, including Vivienne Westwood, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Madonna, and Dita Von Teese. In 2009 the V&A and Stephen Jones collaborated on the exhibition 'Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones'.
Stephen Jones biography
Stephen Jones was born in Cheshire in 1957. In 1975, as an art foundation student at High Wycombe College of Art, he first visited the V&A – to see the exhibition Fashion f…
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Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
This exhibition was a collaboration between the V&A and one of the fashion world's most prolific milliners, Stephen Jones
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Creation
The millinery workroom is the creative laboratory where hat designs are transformed from ideas into reality
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The salon and the client
At the beginning of the 20th century individual milliners turned the simple hat shop into an exclusive space
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My Beautiful Paper Hat Flickr group
Let your imagination go wild and share your paper millinery creations with us!
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Hats: An Anthology (Special edition)
Hats: An Anthology offers an unprecedented view of the world of millinery, drawing on the V&A's extensive collection of hats, Stephen Jones's own …
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