Sunday, March 20, 2011

aMuse's Haute Hats Show--Spring in Paris

Wow! It has been quite a while since I have posted on this blog. I have been incredibly busy making hats, hats, hats for my annual show. It has now been 2 weeks since the show and I am finally able to breathe just a bit. With that said, I want to share with you the experience. It is hard but very worthwhile work to plan and execute this type event.

This year's event was called aMuse's 2nd Annual Haute Hats Show--Spring in Paris. We held it in a beautiful venue in our historic district. The historic building has a stunning balcony and staircase which we used to our advantage in presenting the models with the hats from 4 milliners: Diane Shagott of http://www.hatstodifor.com, Andre Baxter of http://www.designsbyandre.com/ , Jenny Pfanenstiel of http://www.formeonlineshop.com/ and myself. Each of these milliners is a former student of mine. They do beautiful hats, each handcrafted with old-world craftmanship they've learned in class.

I'll post very little text throughout this post. I want you to enjoy the beauty of the hats and models. I'd love to get your opinions of the show. Please post your comments.

BTW, all photography is by a very talented and detail-oriented photographer Lisa Brown of http://www.bellarosephoto.com/. Her work is phenomenal and I think you will agree.

Designed by Lisa to represent a vintage Parisienne postcard...filled with images from the show.





Backstage before the show. Models are donning the hats, dresses, vintage jewelry, bags, and gloves before hitting the staircase.


My very good friend and astounding fashion stylist, 'Style Girl' Jess James, in one of my hats. Jess styled all the models in hats, dresses, jewelry and other accessories. Amazing eye for style! She publishes a weekly newsletter chocked full of fashion tips. Sign up for her newsletter at http://stylegirljessjames.com/.
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Milliner--Jan Wutkowski



Milliner--Jan Wutkowski


Pre-show and ready to go!



Milliner--Jenny Pfanenstiel


Milliner Diane Shagott (center) chats it up at lunch with local fashion blogger, donning one of Diane's beautiful hats.



Milliner--Jenny Pfanenstiel (L), milliner--Jan Wutkowski (R)


Milliner--Jenny Pfanenstiel


Milliner--Andre Baxter


Milliner--Jan Wutkowski


Milliner--Diane Shagott


Milliner--Jan Wutkowski



Milliner--Jan Wutkowski



Milliner--Andre Baxter


Finale bride! Isn't she gorgeous? Milliner--Jan Wutkowski

Milliner Diane Shagott (center) and the finale models in her hats. Beautiful ladies, beautiful work! Fabulous, Diane!!


Milliner Andre Baxter surrounded by gorgeous models in his finale hats. Fabulous work, Andre!

Final staircase shot with all the models in their finale hats and fascinators. This was a very vintage-inspired show and one I think the models had fun with. Very different from the show they are accustomed to working. Great work beautiful ladies!!



Final postcard montage from Lisa. Don't you love it??
Thanks for reading.

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful hats. Looks as if you guys really had plenty of fun. Congratulations.

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  2. Thanks, Lee! We had so much fun doing this. This is the second year we've had the show and everyone seems to enjoy it. I'll be posting the video in a future post so watch for it.

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  3. Beautiful hats.Congratulations.
    Azu from Lanzarote

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  4. Azu, I thank you on behalf of the 4 of us who showed hats that day. Thanks for commenting and for reading my blog.

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