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The Word: I Hate Hats

The ongoing battle to find the right hat. Qualify... I like hats. At best they are form and function in one neat little package - parts of a greater whole. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Inez and Vinoodh, Cookies and Milk. I am a major proponent of the humble knit ski cap - preferably picked up at Duane Reade for $3 on a freezing night when the cashmere Marc Jacobs beret thing I’m wearing seems over-affected for the circumstances. Also, the cheapest ones are the most malleable - length and width wise - and always come in my favorite colors - black, gray, charcoal, army-green, bandaid . I don’t feel bad if I lose them and they allow me more

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Milliner Extraordinaire Stephen Jones on Exhibit in the Hat Capitol of the World…

A bonnet by any other name never looked so chic… Get your hat inspiration here: Easter is the season of the hat, which makes it the perfect time to pay a visit to legendary London milliner, Stephen Jones' ~Hats: An Anthology' exhibition showing at the Victoria & Albert Museum. As a celebration of the life cycle of the hat, the exhibition is categorised into areas of inspiration, creation, the client and the salon, exploring the process of how a hat is realised from it's point of inception to the wearer's head. Exhibiting a vast collection of elegant, experimental and whimsical hats ranging from those designed by Stephen Jones' for designers such as John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood and Jean

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Hattitude! Aretha Franklin, style…

Please don't go too mainstream with that Aretha Franklin inauguration hat Aretha Franklin Inauguration Hat | Hattitude. Please don't go too mainstream with that Aretha Franklin hat You know that hat. It's the hat that won't go away. The grey one with the oversized bow that sung out louder than its wearer at the inauguration. Well, it seems that the Aretha Franklin Inauguration hat has continued to take on a life of its own. The hat in question neither shocked or amazed me with in either its beauty or its showiness. I'm quite familiar with rather flamboyant handmade "Church Lady" hats worn with pride and gusto as the niece of an old time milliner. The New York Times once described

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Put a Lid on It…..

Milliner Eugenia Kim creates a DIY book for the just right hat Super cool hat designer Eugenia Kim has scores of downtown trendsetters and fashionistas as her clients. Fashion-loving stars like Madonna, Beyonce, Nicole Ritchie, Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, Jessica Simpson, Sienna Miller, and Gwenyth Paltrow have all been spotted wearing a trendy Eugenia Kim hat and she has a DIY hatmaking book called,Saturday Night Hat: Quick, Easy Hatmaking for the Downtown Girl. >> SHOP: Eugenia Kim Hats at Shopbop Imagine this comic book heroine: Hat-Girl takes over Gotham City with the flip of her chapeau. Suddenly, every Queen Mumsy headgear aficionado is turned to dust. Two-Face morphs into a stylist to fight the crimes of fashion with deposits of rockin' chic millinery confections that every It Girl covets. Now, for

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Mad Hattery…

The Chapeau Strikes Back for Fall Fall 2001 fashion is head first into a major hat attack. The fashion must-have look is menswear inspired. If the hat doesn't recall Rex Harrison puffing a pipe, elbow resting on a mantle piece, it's not it. Grab a tweed or private school plaid slouchy crusher or a newsboy cap. We warned you that it was coming and now it's here-- fashion is head first into a major hat attack. The fashion must-have[/link] look is menswear inspired. If the hat doesn't recall Rex Harrison puffing a pipe, elbow resting on a mantle piece, it's not it. Grab atweed or private school plaid slouchy crusher or a newsboy cap … jeez with our every breath

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