HATS: Chinoiserie-on-Sea Spring/Summer 2012. Chinoiserie-on-Sea, a sparkling millinery collection inspired by sunny Brighton and its enchanting Royal Pavilion. Model Millinery, Miss Jones & JonesBoy collections. Find out about our unique Bridal Service. View examples of Stephen's recent collaborations with international fashion designers. THE OLYMPIC GAMES: Stephen Jones has already contributed a drawing for the Tate Britain for the Olympics. For the Cultural Olympiad, which runs concurrently with the Olympics, he will contribute to two major pieces of work; The first is 'Britain Creates', where he will create an artwork with one of Britain's leading artists. ..."To celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games, our most prestigious and renowned fashion designers will collaborate with leading visual artists on specially commissioned one-off works of art. These commissions, focusing on an Olympic and Paralympic value, will be showcased to a broad UK and international audience through a major engagement programme that will support the commissions - a series of activities both actual and virtual that will reach a broad & diverse audience". ...and the second is very much about hats! The Victoria & Albert Museum will host an exhibition 'British Design 1948-2012; Innovation in the Modern Age' to which Stephen Jones will contribute archive hats. ..."This Exhibition will celebrate the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 'austerity' Games to the summer of 2012. The exhibition will highlight significant moments in the history of British design and how the country continues to nurture artistic talent and be a world leader in creativity and design".

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NEWS! Stephen Jones has created a series of charming notecards for the HIV charity i-base featuring evocative hat illustrations from the past thirty years. Stephen has written the introduction to a wonderful new hat book entitled 'Couture Hats, The Millinery Splendour', written by Louis Bou. This will be out in the spring and published in New York and Barcelona. In March 2012, together with Manolo Blahnik, Stephen will be the focus of 'Bath in Fashion', a festival which runs from 25th March 2012. The Programme includes an exhibition of Regency hats in the Holburne Museum, an 'in conversation' with Sarah Mower of Vogue.com and presentations of inspirational films. The V&A exhibition, 'Hats: an Anthology by Stephen Jones', at the Gallery at the Bard Graduate Centre in Manhattan will close on the 15th April 2012. The exhibition, which attracted huge crowds in the UK and Australia, is joined by displays of New York milliners and a cabinet of iconic American hats; Babe Ruth's baseball cap, Candice Bergen's Halston mink bunny mask she wore to Truman Capote's Black & White Ball and Madonna's Tracy Watts cowboy hat from the Music album cover. In early September 2012, the exhibition will move to Boston until January 2013 where it will complete its world tour. Please check back later for more details. Drawn from V&A and international collections and ranging in style and period from a 17th-century Puritan's hat to a 1950s Balenciaga couture piece to hats by Jones and his contemporaries including the latest creations by young milliners such as Piers Atkinson and Albertus Swanepoel, the exhibition investigates the cultural and historic importance of millinery. The exhibition is arranged in four main themes - Inspiration looks at the myriad of sources including historicism, exoticism and the natural world; Creation explores the techniques, materials and processes; The Salon focuses on the buying and selling of hats and the millinery shop; and The Client examines the wearing and etiquette of hats and features headgear worn by well known clients of some of the world's top milliners including Gala Dali, Isabella Blow, Anna Piaggi, Dita von Teese. V&A microsite; http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/hats-anthology/ Bard site; http://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/gallery-at-bgc/main-gallery.html Until 11th of March 2012, a display of 30 archival hats is included in the exhibition 'Salvatore Ferragamo: Inspiration and Vision', at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence. Specially created for this exhibition are Stephen Jones hats that co-ordinate with the iconic shoes made for Judy Garland and Greta Garbo. Some of Stephen's earliest work in Paris is featured in the exhibition 'The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk' which started in The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and is currently at the Dallas Museum of Art. This exhibition opens in San Francisco on the 24th of March before continuing to Madrid and Rotterdam. FEATURES: Diorama; In Autumn 1996 Stephen Jones was invited by John Galliano to be the milliner at Christian Dior. Discover the story of their collaboration; creating the ultimate in striking, inventive and romantic hats. This has been recently updated to show their complete oeuvre. In 2009 Stephen celebrated 15 wild years creating hats for designer John Galliano - view Stephen's most fantastical creations in La Galería de Galliano. Stephen Jones has launched his first fragrance created in collaboration with Comme des Garcons. The perfumed gallery. Please call +44 (0)20 7242 0770 for a client list. To Celebrate 25 years of Stephen Jones Millinery, Rei Kawakubo invited Stephen to exhibit 'C¼' in her London home, Dover Street Market. More info & catalogue... Read the fascinating account of Stephen Jones meeting the iconic Roman couturiere, Simonetta, and browse the elegant 'La Dolce Vita' collection for A/W 2004 that she inspired.