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Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Aoife Harrison Design

There is something really exciting about when it comes to Spring in the Northern regions as I am always turning to the Northern Hemisphere. In Australia, we are about to embrace Autumn/Fall although there is nothing like Spring to embrace new colours and see new mediums. I have had a wonderful time at the International Millinery Association learning and finding about new technique, but love turning to others in different countries to see what they are doing. Loving Aoife Harrison Designs as always. x

Racing Fashion love Aoife Harrison Design

Racing Fashion love Aoife Harrison Design

Please direct yourself to Aoife Harrison Design, Click Here.

www.racingfashion.com.au

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Aoife Harrison Design on the runway

There is nothing more fabulous than seeing the hats on heads and in gorgeous fashion. I adore the designs of Aoife Harrison and beautifully complimented with fabulous attire. Enjoy. x

Racing Fashion loves Aoife Harrison

Racing Fashion loves Aoife Harrison

Click Here to see more of this amazing Milliners work.

www.racingfashion.com.au

Monday, 22 July 2013

Sorensen Grundy Milliners

The Magical Way Hats are Made

Ever want to know how hats are actually made? You're in luck! Sara Grundy of Sorensen Grundy Milliners will let you in on the secret. After dark, in the millinery workroom, mini maintenance workers construct hats in the most clandestine way. Here she shows us, in pictures, what actually goes on when no one is looking.

This particular hat is called "Construction Overhead."

"The impulse behind making the hat was based on a combination of factors," said Grundy when we asked her what the inspiration was behind this idea. "There has always been a tradition in millinery to make miniature versions of traditional hat shapes such as the Victorian mini top hat and as a company we have tended to play with scale quite often making mini trilbies, berets, top hats and other classic shapes. We wanted to take this further by playing with the idea of scale for this piece.

"As we both have children we are constantly immersed in stories and films about miniature worlds, such as Arrietty, The Borrowers and Gulliver's Travels. Revisiting and appreciating these stories as adults has probably encouraged a desire to create something whimsical.

"Model millinery involves a hat being completely hand made and often there is a huge amount of hand sewing involved. Because it's such hard work and takes such a long time we have often daydreamed about having the help of a miniature workforce or leaving something half finished that get's magically completed overnight. We trained together in a millinery workroom making hats for Paris and London fashion shows and know what it feels like to be working away behind the scenes and through the night.

"We like to think that there is humour to our work and as well as wanting to make something that is amusing we also wanted to stretch the definitions of what millinery can be. 'Construction Overhead' is an imagined scenario, a hat capturing a moment in a fantasy narrative which hopefully offers more than just something to be worn on the head."

Thank you to My Modern Met, Click Here.

www.racingfashion.com.au

Monday, 15 July 2013

Bailey Tomlin, Textile Genius

Shut the &*(*% up and shut the front door, OMG this Millinery is sublime.
I am totally in awe of the inspiring Millinery and really let us not just call it 'Hats' but Art that sits on the head. Bailey Tomlins work is more than in a league of her own, she stands in a league of "Master Artists'. You cannot imagine how many hours it has taken of learning to manipulate, dye and structure some of these pieces.
I think it is best said when you watch an ice skater, tennis player or anyone doing something so incredibly well and make it look easy that is when you know whatever you say just does not matter, you just look and wonder. AMAZING!!!!!