A new coffee table book from Rizzoli traces the rich history of millinery from fashion house Christian Dior Logic suggests this is a very bad time to be a milliner.
Weddings, Ascot and royal garden parties are off the menu. What is there to dress for? Peer beyond the quivering feathers and the piles of silk flowers however, and a different kind of hat is standing staunch.
Straw hats have been gaining momentum for a summer or more, boosted in no small way by Instagram, where amateur stylists and photographers have discovered what Lucinda Chambers, former Fashion Director of British Vogue has known for years: when you don’t know what’s missing from a picture, try a hat.
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