INSPIRATION


A milliner’s


Wadded lurex fabric


Every six months, Première Vision in Paris presents the trends in colours, fabrics and accessories for the upcoming seasons. All forecasts and trends presented to the visiting stylists and designers at Première Vision are reflected six months later in the collections of fashion and millinery brands at trade shows such as Première Classe, London Fashion Week, Gallery, etc.


Because of the many beautiful and inspiring materials on display at Première Vision, we just can’t resist the temptation of getting an advance glimpse of the new collections. So we ask manufacturers if we might buy a metre of one of their fabrics and use this to have a unique design made by a milliner.


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The design When we saw the wadded polyester/ lurex fabric by Silmatex (see the Première Vision Trends report in Issue 91), we wondered what Berlin- based milliner Fiona Bennett would create if we gave her two metres of this material to work with.


“When I held the fabric in my hands


I was inspired to drape a turban with the iridescent old gold”


Fiona Bennett: Originally I was planning to develop a tailored cap, but when I held the fabric in my hands I was inspired to drape a turban with the iridescent old gold. The embossed lines want to imitate a seam – I wanted to make it so that this would disappear a bit and I would use the perforation as a structure.


Since we have just completed the fourth season of hats for the TV series Babylon Berlin [the award- winning German period drama], I was still in the mood of the 1920s/’30s. We have been developing all the hats for the main actors from the


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Golden power Wadded


polyester/lurex fabric


Silmatex 39 | the hat magazine #91


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