Millinery
Overview
Fashion design
Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....
and manufacture of ladies’ hat
Hat
A hat is a head covering. It can be worn for protection against the elements, for ceremonial or religious reasons, for safety, or as a fashion accessory. In the past, hats were an indicator of social status...
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- Gerard AlbouyGerard AlbouyGerard Albouy , often known by the name Ouy, was a French milliner. Between 1938 and 1964, he operated a Parisian hat shop called Albouy that was known for its decorative, baroque-style hats. Notable works include veiled hats made of recycled newspaper, which he constructed during the German...
(1912–85), often known by the name Ouy, a French milliner - Anna Ben-YusufAnna Ben-YusufMadame Anna Ben-Yusuf was a German-born milliner and teacher based in Boston and New York. She wrote The Art of Millinery , one of the first reference books on millinery technique...
, a German-born milliner and teacher based in Boston and New York - Judy BentinckJudy BentinckJudith Ann Bentinck, Countess of Portland, Countess Bentinck und Waldeck Limpurg , the wife of Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, is a couture milliner based in Central London....
(1952–), the wife of Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, a couture milliner based in Central London. - Rose BertinRose BertinMarie-Jeanne Rose Bertin was the French milliner and dressmaker to Queen Marie Antoinette...
(1747–1813), the French milliner and modiste to Queen Marie Antoinette - Lilly DachéLilly DachéLilly Daché was a French milliner and fashion designer.She was born in Bègles, Gironde, France, and began her fashion career there at the age of 15 as a milliner, apprenticed under Caroline Reboux and Suzanne Talbot. Although she is said to have emigrated to the United States in 1924, the 1930 U.S...
- Ellen Louise Demorest (née Curtis) (1825–98), a milliner widely credited with inventing mass-produced tissue-paper dressmaking patterns
- Thomas DuffetThomas DuffetThomas Duffet , or Duffett, was an Irish playwright and songwriter active in England in the 1670s. He is remembered for his popular songs and his burlesques of the serious plays of John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, and Sir William Davenant.By profession, Duffet was a milliner; he...
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1673–76), an Irish milliner known for his work as a playwright and songwriter - Barbara Feinman of Barbara Feinman MillineryBarbara Feinman MillineryBarbara Feinman Millinery is a custom hattery in New York City's East Village.Feinman hats are made by two other milliners using a 100 year-old sewing machine and various materials.-Feinman:...
in New York City's East Village and "stars" of the "moulded straw, the feather, and the veil" Prudence, Prudence MillineryPrudence MillineryPrudence, designer for Prudence Millinery, designs and makes couture hats for major designers all over the world.- A brief history :Prudence was born in 1963 in New-York, USA. A graduate of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and a former assistant buyer for the Associated Merchandising...
who currently makes hats for Vivienne WestwoodVivienne WestwoodDame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.-Early life:...
and many other world famous designers, Philip TreacyPhilip TreacyPhilip Treacy OBE is an Irish milliner.Born in Ahascragh,in the West of Ireland, he lived with his parents, seven brothers and sister across the road from the village church... - Sonia GreeneSonia GreeneSonia Haft Greene Lovecraft Davis was a one-time pulp fiction writer and amateur publisher, a single mother, business woman and successful milliner who bankrolled several fanzines in the early twentieth century...
, a milliner who bankrolled several fanzines in the early twentieth century. - Jacob HutterJacob HutterJacob Hutter , was a Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites.Jacob Hutter was born in St. Lorenzen in the Puster Valley in the County of Tyrol...
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