V&A STEPHEN JONES HAT EXHIBITION

Ahhhhh belated blogging... so I was completely in shock really about having a piece included in the exhibition at all really, as I stored it in my mind as one of those things that couldn't possibly be happening until I could see it with my own eyes! I was so nervous I ended up bending the ear off a Swedish journalist who was waiting to interview Philip Treacy- in retrospect I think I tired her out with barrage of words! Anyway she was enlightening me about the state of Swedish headwear and how they are burdened with the necessity of wearing woolly bobble hats which are rarely innovative- Louise Goldin could perhaps branch out and make a killing???

I was super-honoured to be invited to the Milliners Lunch where I nervously kept piling my plate with ordurves but was so nervous i could eat them and started offering them out.

Well the exhibition itslef is a beautiful education- my faveorite bit being the re-creation of

Steven Jones's studio in the centre- a little hub of wonderings and treasures!

And the opening night... what can I say, truffles on sticks- lots of important people with head nests and floating echoes of heaving conversation- I think parties where the volume of conversation overpowers the music are the most exciting (everyone making their own atmosphere) I was endeared to the visual status of the KCTV entourage (Kenny etc...) who were wearing Piers Atkinson.

Stupidly I didn't make camera plans, so I have borrowed these pics from urbanjunkies.com



I Ended up chatting to a designer called Ben Hall, a British footwear designer who was wearing a tall paper hat creation which reminded me of one of my favorite DADA inspiration pictures- turns out his shoes are super-hot so I am going to investigate more of his workstuffs.

My Favorite was of course very literal and jovial;