EVENT


‘Hats in the museum’ talk with heritage curator and restorer Montserrat Xirau


Visit to Barcelona’s Design Museum hat archives with curator Silvia Ventosa


Barcelona 12–15 April 2023 Hosting a Spanish


multi-day hat event has been on the wish list of the organisers of the


‘Spectacular lycra swirl trimmings’ workshop by Vlad Straticiuc


Passejada amb Barret (Barcelona Hat Stroll), Cristina de Prada and Nina Pawlowsky, for


quite a while. Due to the pandemic their plans had to be put on hold for some time, but this year they could finally go ahead with the first edition of the Barcelona Hat Days.


The four-day event started on 12 April and included tours in the hat archives of the Museu del Disseny (Design Museum of Barcelona), a materials market, a milliners’ dinner and almost twenty workshops and presentations by tutors from Australia, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK. Prior to this, from 7 March onwards, sixteen


hats were on display in the millinery exhibition ‘Over the Top’ at the craft centre of the Artesania de Catalunya, the Consortium for Trade, Crafts and Fashion of Catalonia (CCAM). The hats for the exhibition were selected by a committee made up of Museu del Disseny curator Silvia Ventosa and milliners Marianne Jongkind and Carles Martí. “The original idea was to organise everything


at one location, but unfortunately it was not possible to find a venue that could host the whole event,” said Cristina de Prada. “In the end we used four locations. For the materials market we found a wonderful industrial space that used to be a foundry in the 19th century. Nowadays


Millinery supplier Plooij Hats and Materials


Sombrerería Mil owner Núria


Arnau (left) shows the


headpiece she made in the ‘Wire Halo’ workshop


with Lauren Ritchie (right)


12 | the hat magazine #97


Photos by Piet de Meijer & Elly Stemerdink


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84