I have to think I may eventually be doing a “Hats Off, Part II” since researching hats and all things millinery seems potentially infinite. I so enjoyed putting together this post that I had to force myself to stop for fear I’d segue into a fashion glossary rather than a compilation of photographs.
Norman Parkinson (whose photographs of Philip Treacy’s millinery and haute couture became a collaboration and art unto itself).
Cindy Sherman (1978)
Fernand Fonssgrives
F. C. Gundlach
Jacques Henri Lartigue (of his muse, Renée Perle, 1930)
Richard Avedon (of Mila Jovovich in Yohji Yamamoto)
Photographer Unknown (of President Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge and Senator Curtis, 1925)
Alistair Grant (of Queen Elizabeth, 2009)
Weegee, Hats in Poolroom, Mulberry Street, NYC, 1943
Walker Evans (of Lincoln Kirstein, 1930)
Frank Horvat (for Givenchy, 1957)
Photographer Unknown (of David and Victoria Beckham)
Photographer Unknown / Credit: Life Magazine (of Princess Diana)
Photographer Unknown (at the horse races, 1920)
Photographer Unknown (1940; credit: The Luton News)
Photographer Unknown (of serviceman on Veteran’s Day)
Chip Somodevilla (at the Republican National Convention, 2008)
Pete Souza (of President Ronald Reagan)
Pete Souza (of President Barack Obama 2009)
Margaret Bourke-White (of a Hindu man, 1946)
Love the in inclusion of RUN DMC. Actually I love all of these shots. I thought of the scene from "Titanic" when Kate Winslet first appears in that beautiful pinstripe suit wearing that huge hat.
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