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Creation The millinery workroom or atelier is the creative laboratory where hat designs are transformed from ideas into reality. The methods, materials and tools have changed little in the past hundred years. Milliners still work seated around a large table with their scissors, needles and thread. Straws, felts and fabrics remain the key materials used to pin and shape prototype hats on a calico-covered head known as a 'poupée'. From these prototypes a hat mould ('block') can be taken. Usually of wood, the block is an essential tool of the workroom. Milliners often amass a library of differently shaped blocks that can be used time and again. In the words of Stephen Jones, a milliner's workroom is 'half Aladdin's cave and half artist's studio', a place where each hat is carefully coaxed into being. The Salon At the beginning of the 20th century, individual milliners turned the simple hat shop into an exclusive space that enhanced their signature styles. This 'salon' environment, similar to that of haute couture dress houses, offered the customer an intimate place to view, try and buy elegantly displayed hats. Traditionally a good saloniste offered advice, recommending turban styles for those with large noses or advising asymmetric styles to slim a wide face. However, the cardinal rule of hat-buying, as French fashion editor Genevieve Dariaux noted, is to 'take the one you fall in love with, which mysteriously "does something" for you, which magically makes you feel more beautiful'. The Client When the right client meets the right hat, the wearing begins. On the hat’s journey — from initial inspiration, through construction, to the salon where it is tried and chosen — it is the client who ultimately gives it life and launches it into the world. From royalty to revolutionaries, a hat frequently becomes a signature feature for a well-known face, recognised as part of the personality of the wearer.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS Top Hats Children and adults are invited to discover the art of designing hats in an interactive section of the exhibition. Visitors will be able to create their own toppers, berets or bonnets using stencils inspired by the hats on display, including the fantastical creations of milliner extraordinaire, Stephen Jones. Top Hats is a Children’s Art Centre project. The CAC is sponsored by Santos. Talks In-conversation 11.30am Thursday 1 April | Cinema A, GoMA Join Stephen Jones and Oriole Cullen, Curator of Modern Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, for insights into the exhibition. Talking Hats 2.00-4.00pm Sundays 23 May – 27 June | Upper Sculpture Courtyard, QAG Join some of Brisbane’s leading fashionistas, including Kellie Alderman, Fashion and Beauty Editor at the Sunday Mail; leading boutique owners Thea Basiliou (Blonde Venus) and Amber Long (Jean Brown); Suzi Vaughan, academic and designer; and local milliners and stylists as they discuss the art of millinery and more. Everyone who attends Talking Hats is entitled to a 10% discount at the Hats Salon from 2.00-5.00pm on the day. Lectures The Australian Line 11.30am Thursday 8 April | Lecture Theatre, QAG. Miranda Wallace (Senior Curator, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art) introduces visitors to the history of millinery in Australia. Down Under: Rabbits, Hats and Other Artistic Confessions 2.00pm Friday 16 April | Cinema B, GoMA. Stephen Hobson, artist and Lecturer in Art History, Queensland College of Art, draws upon his photographic self portraiture since 2000 to explore the role of the hat in creating and challenging notions of identity. Hobson traces the mythological and cultural significance of the rabbit as a feminine symbol, and relates this to the history of the rabbit fur hat – in particular, the traditionally ‘masculine’ Australian Akubra hat.
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