Style and whimsy: the signatures of a Stephen Jones hat

It’s been too long since I posted but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been looking at your heads to see what you’re wearing. I’ve been wearing a flat cap made from a hessian sack of basil, at least that’s what it pretends to be. Anyway, I like it and I bought it on my honeymoon as a wedding present to myself so it reminds me of that. Everyone else seems to be wearing little straw trilbies so fashion’s not changing in that regard.

The major news, however, is what I see from my Weekend Herald:  Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones will be in Brisbane between 27 March and 27 June at the Queensland Art Gallery (media release).

I saw the exhibition in London and loved it so go, go, go if you can. I shall be doing my best to get there and I’m working on meeting the man himself, who is here to wish the exhibition well on what is the beginning of a six month voyage around the world. (I’m producing audio travel features for an airline and this would make a great feature for Brisbane.)

If I do get to meet the great milliner, probably I won’t mention that I tried to knock off his fez using a Turkish woman from Etsy.

Before the exhibition opens at the end of March, you can be part of its progress by looking at QAG’s Flickr stream.