Video: Hatwalk - London Monuments Wearing Hats
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Hats in England are not just an element of clothing, they are a tool for determining a person's social status, an attribute with which everyone can loudly declare themselves. The unusual exhibition Hatwalk is dedicated to this feature of British fashion culture, the platform for which is literally the whole of London.
People love hats for some reason! Fashionistas around the world are ready to tear each other's hands off in order to be the first to get hats from famous designers. There are even fashion designers who specialize in completely crazy accessories like these, relevant only for one appearance in them. Among such authors, mention may be made of the Sorensen-Grundy Milliners or Takaya.
But two British fashion designers Stephen Jones and Philip Treacy made them try on trendy hats and … London monuments! The Hatwalk headwear exhibition, created by these two designers, is scattered all over London. More than two dozen works adorn the heads of the most famous monuments of the British capital. Moreover, not all historical figures were “lucky” as Admiral Nelson, whose sculpture in Trafalgar Square is just wearing a hat painted in the colors of the flag of Great Britain and decorated with an Olympic torch.
For example, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a huge domed hat decorated with a boa on his head, Queen Victoria had a headdress made of feathers, and Robert Burns had a huge thistle flower.
A century ago, London was considered the "capital of the world" - it was the center of a huge Empire, stretching from the islands of Oceania in the east to the Yukon territory in the west. Now this city is perhaps the "capital of hats", as Stephen Jones and Philip Tracy talk about in their Hatwalk exhibition.
Moreover, the locations for this exhibition were chosen so that a resident of London or a guest of the British capital could walk around all these two dozen or so little sculptures in hats in a day, examining the most interesting and famous places of the city along the way.
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