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For the first time in over 40 years, the Musée de la Mode Palais Galliera is dedicating an exhibition to an accessory, the hat, which has been elected to the status of a true masterpiece.
Stephen Jones, a British designer and great milliner, is the guest of honor at this retrospective, which presents the models designed for his first collections from the 1980s to the present day. More than 170 headgear, 40 silhouettes and numerous archive documents bear witness to his sources of inspiration, his collaborations and the place that Paris holds in his work.
Born in 1957, not far from Liverpool, he studied at the Saint Martin School of Art and opened his boutique in London in the heart of Covent Garden in 1980, offering two hat collections per year.
Photograph of a model from the Saint Martin’s School of Art graduation collection, worn by Jane Leonard, 1979
© Peter Ashworth