Amazing hats!!!
Monday, 5. October 2009, 10:21:00
Last friday I spent all morning visiting an old school friend´s workshop. I´d seen some photos of her hat designs, but having the opportunity to have her explain how she makes them, and trying them on was soooooooo much fun!
More than hats they seem to be small installations or sculptures, and they´re so different, original and fun! I love the first one with the leaves and the grasshopper, and I also tried on one with lovely red and orange butterflies. She uses all kinds of different materials, objects and even toys to create them, and her workshop is full of big plastic boxes containing just anything you could imagine.
Here´s a selection of some of her beautiful creations:
Her web page is under construction, but I hope she´ll have it ready and filled up with lots of lovely photos very soon.
More than hats they seem to be small installations or sculptures, and they´re so different, original and fun! I love the first one with the leaves and the grasshopper, and I also tried on one with lovely red and orange butterflies. She uses all kinds of different materials, objects and even toys to create them, and her workshop is full of big plastic boxes containing just anything you could imagine.
Here´s a selection of some of her beautiful creations:
Her web page is under construction, but I hope she´ll have it ready and filled up with lots of lovely photos very soon.
WIDGETIZE
PainterWoman # 5. October 2009, 21:36
I could see these being worn in New York City or Paris.
Henar # 6. October 2009, 08:37
Zephirine # 3. November 2009, 22:11
p.s.: I really like the first one too!!
NonZionist # 16. December 2009, 08:17
People stopped wearing hats because hats became pedestrian, obligatory, conventional, pretentious and functional: Hats ceased to be a form of communication.
Your friend has not rediscovered hats: She has rediscovered communication.
Bumper stickers and protest signs and message t-shirts have gone out of fasion for the same reason: They are so pedestrian and lifeless that they fail to communicate.
We need to have a protest where only artistic signs are permitted!
We need cryptic artistic bumper-stickers -- a bracket, the size of a license plate, with removeable cards. The card could be changed, depending on one's mood -- just slide it out and slide in another. Instead of a message, the card would contain a design or hieroglyph. It would serve as a license plate for the spirit.
Sometimes the plates could contain fragments of a word. You would then search for cars having other parts of the word or phrase. When you find a complete set, you and the owners of the other cars would have an excuse for getting together and starting a revolution or something!
Henar # 24. December 2009, 08:28
I agree with you, NZ. The way we dress says a lot about us.
I love your "license plate for the spirit" idea!!!!!
NonZionist # 24. December 2009, 09:27
And if you make a million selling these plates, give me 10%.
Have you ever seen the movie "Brazil"? Lots of fantastic hats there.
Then there is "My Fair Lady" -- the scene as the Ascot Races.
I'm talking a second look at the hats above, and now I'm not so sure they are wearable. The hat should accent the beauty of the woman; but the hats above now seem so outlandish that they overpower the woman.
Of course, these days, if you wear something subtle, no one notices. You almost have to hit somebody over the head to create an opening for communication.
By the way, where is YOUR hat?
Henar # 28. December 2009, 15:44
I agree that maybe not everyone is able to wear hats like these...
Where´s my hat? We´ll see if I get one for the next wedding!!!!! Maybe I´ll even get Sara Vergara to lend me one!!!!
Zephirine # 28. December 2009, 22:06
And I wish you a great 2010!!