Stephen Jones at Holon Fashion Week – by Silvia Bombardini

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Dear Shaded Viewers  and Diane,

 

One of the most exclusive features of Holon Fashion Week this year undoubtedly was the continued and most welcome presence of their special guest Mr. Stephen Jones. After joining us on our guided visit of Jerusalem that first day, the legendary British hatter delighted the audience first with a lecture, then with a private tour of his current exhibition at the Ron Arad Design Museum (a selection of hats from various collections somehow recalling the sinuous lines of its architecture. As many of Jones's designs do, in fact. 'When I see a building I see a hat' he said, and then again, doesn't he see one in most things?), and finally with an extended and throughout master class, to answer each and every question one might still have left.

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He taught us how to wear an hat politely, how to make it look like brushwork, how their disappearance  from our everyday etiquette might be due to the invention of hairspray, and how many hats did Anna Piaggi have – namely, 803. He told us tales from his wildest youth back in the 1980s, of his stint as a truck driver with punk green hair in the outskirts of London, where people would call him The Parrot, as he would just be starting his little millinery business designing for his friend Boy George, and for Lady Di not that much later. Already as his first lecture ended, the audience was so charmed that we all stood up in nothing less but a standing ovation, he had been so inspiring. It was an incredible experience, and yet at the same time still a very intimate one, a bit indeed like wearing one of Stephen Jones' magical creations, that he would let us try on, passing a few along to the wide-eyed crowd.

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Later,

Silvia

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