Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe.
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Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime.
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.
Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.
I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.
The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
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