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Stephen Jones Millinery
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i love them!! heres the head dresses stephen did for his fall 2004 line...
Stephen Jones certainly is one of the Galliano family member. He started very early on when john was still struggling, and he followed him wherever he goes: Givenchy, Dior and of cos the Galliano line (both men and women). It's a bit like Philip Treacey for McQueen.
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i think i once read on an interview he even has his own atelier inside Dior´s headquarters:
http://www.showstudio.com/projects/360_jones/intro.htmlhttp://www.showstudio.com/projects/360_jones/intro.html
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I'm a new fan of his work!
early stephen jones creations from this awesome site http://us.geocities.com/theblitzkids/index24.html
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Do hats fly? Dressed in Stephen Jones's plumage they do
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/28/style/fjones.php
By Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2005
LONDON With feathered hats perched like malignant birds and fantastical creations nestling in cabinets of curiosity, Stephen Jones is celebrating 25 years in millinery. An exhibition of the surreal and the sublime in London's Dover Street Market also marks another anniversary: 20 years since Jones approached his fashion hero, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, at Anchorage airport - and subsequently started a collaboration with the Japanese designer.
The culmination of their working relationship ("she gave me a few pointers but mostly carte blanche," says Jones) is an exhibition of hats "displaced and displayed" through Kawakubo's six-floor London store (17-18 Dover Street from Dec. 2 to Jan. 7). With perfect serendipity, Jones was honored at the British Fashion Awards earlier this month as "accessories designer of the year;" while Adrian Joffe, Kawakubo's husband and business partner, picked up the "best new store" award for Dover Street Market.
This is not a predictable fashion exhibit with a time line showing the milliner's development since he left Saint Martin's school in 1979 and set up shop in Covent Garden. That was where Boy George found his famously rakish top hats in the 1980s and where "dual extravaganzas" are currently being created for this weekend's Irish wedding of the goth couple Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Tease.
"We didn't want it to be an obvious exhibition - the hats are in every nook and cranny and behind the hut," says Joffe, referring to the sinister chalet that serves as a cash till. The hut encouraged Jones to think of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds": hence the provocative plumage. Just as Dover Street is a "voyage of discovery," with surprises round every corner, Jones has dreamed up displays to suit each space, setting off Comme des Garçon's recent men's collection, inspired by the Rolling Stones, with the hats Jones has created for Mick Jagger's current world tour.
Other offbeat ideas include taking the fourth-floor café as inspiration for nature-inspired headgear, while Kawakubo's collaborations with designers such as Azzedine Alaïa or Alber Elbaz for Lanvin, are the backcloth to the Jones collaborations. Hats are shown with the outfit as they appeared on the international catwalks.
Jones worked first with Jean Paul Gaultier and Vivienne Westwood, then with Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler, as well as Kawakubo. But he has done his most dramatic work with John Galliano, creating astounding and lyrical confections from a hat with lollipop sticks to Neffertiti Egyptian headdresses. In close-up, it is possible to understand the extraordinary detail and technical skills that went into these moments of creative emotion.
"Galliano has a certain sensibility that I have in me," says Jones. "It is eccentric, English with a romantic sweetness - all the things that went into the Queen Mother's hats.
Working with John brought out that side of my character."
Jones recalls "one of the most amazing hats" created for a Dior show at Versailles, when the model Stella Tennant wore a hunting hat with fox and rabbit and John stared at her for five minutes - almost on the point of tears to see what a great thing we'd achieved together."
Jones, 48, whose earliest memories were of his mother wearing a neat straw hat with gloves, was brought up near Liverpool on the Wirral Peninsula "where everyone wore a hat." That included Jones in a school cap and later a straw boater at boarding school. For all his fantasy creations, he has a penchant for a beret ("the T-shirt of hats") from its original Basque style, through Johnny Rotten's punk headgear to an asymmetric beret to mesh with Galliano's sense of subversion. That is also reflected in a love of crowns, like imperial confections for Dior and the recent British-to-the-core Comme collection.
Jones recalls his first airport meeting with Kawakubo, followed by a dinner in a Tokyo restaurant, where his legs went to sleep. When he couldn't stand up, "Rei was chuckling away - she has this façade of being an incredibly serious person, but then I saw her liveliness and frivolity." The designer also turned out to be a fellow romantic and the birds' nests of straw hats at Comme or the "broken bride" headdresses last season were some of Jones's most poetic work.
Jones says of designing for Kawakubo: "It was a complete adventure. She was the most fabulous designer in the world that I respected enormously. I could really see how she was changing fashion. It was as though hundreds of years of Paris couture were under attack."
For all his wacky individualism (think of a 1984 Gaultier mask hat with tassels dangling from the cut-out eyes) Jones has a rare ability to be wittily creative without ever betraying the spirit of the fashion designer. He remembers the Montana years at Lanvin couture, when Jones struggled to follow a perfectionist's demands for the right shade of blue felt hat to accompany the precise tailoring. Then there was Mugler, taking things "to such visual intensity" and changing everything right up to the last minute.
"Both Mugler and Montana were taking ready-to-wear into the world of couture," says Jones.
His own heart may also be in couture, but the millinery collections include graceful pieces for clients to attend English weddings and race meetings. There are also more accessible collections, particular for Japan. Shining through is a sunny personality that made a millennium hat as a cone with dangling streamers and a fringed straw South Pacific sombrero sprouting orchids and feathers.
"I love the whimsy of it," says Jones. "People ask me when I will be creating a range of bed covers. But I just do hats. And for me, that is the cake and the cherry on the cake."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/28/style/fjones.php
By Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2005
LONDON With feathered hats perched like malignant birds and fantastical creations nestling in cabinets of curiosity, Stephen Jones is celebrating 25 years in millinery. An exhibition of the surreal and the sublime in London's Dover Street Market also marks another anniversary: 20 years since Jones approached his fashion hero, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, at Anchorage airport - and subsequently started a collaboration with the Japanese designer.
The culmination of their working relationship ("she gave me a few pointers but mostly carte blanche," says Jones) is an exhibition of hats "displaced and displayed" through Kawakubo's six-floor London store (17-18 Dover Street from Dec. 2 to Jan. 7). With perfect serendipity, Jones was honored at the British Fashion Awards earlier this month as "accessories designer of the year;" while Adrian Joffe, Kawakubo's husband and business partner, picked up the "best new store" award for Dover Street Market.
This is not a predictable fashion exhibit with a time line showing the milliner's development since he left Saint Martin's school in 1979 and set up shop in Covent Garden. That was where Boy George found his famously rakish top hats in the 1980s and where "dual extravaganzas" are currently being created for this weekend's Irish wedding of the goth couple Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Tease.
"We didn't want it to be an obvious exhibition - the hats are in every nook and cranny and behind the hut," says Joffe, referring to the sinister chalet that serves as a cash till. The hut encouraged Jones to think of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds": hence the provocative plumage. Just as Dover Street is a "voyage of discovery," with surprises round every corner, Jones has dreamed up displays to suit each space, setting off Comme des Garçon's recent men's collection, inspired by the Rolling Stones, with the hats Jones has created for Mick Jagger's current world tour.
Other offbeat ideas include taking the fourth-floor café as inspiration for nature-inspired headgear, while Kawakubo's collaborations with designers such as Azzedine Alaïa or Alber Elbaz for Lanvin, are the backcloth to the Jones collaborations. Hats are shown with the outfit as they appeared on the international catwalks.
Jones worked first with Jean Paul Gaultier and Vivienne Westwood, then with Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler, as well as Kawakubo. But he has done his most dramatic work with John Galliano, creating astounding and lyrical confections from a hat with lollipop sticks to Neffertiti Egyptian headdresses. In close-up, it is possible to understand the extraordinary detail and technical skills that went into these moments of creative emotion.
"Galliano has a certain sensibility that I have in me," says Jones. "It is eccentric, English with a romantic sweetness - all the things that went into the Queen Mother's hats.
Working with John brought out that side of my character."
Jones recalls "one of the most amazing hats" created for a Dior show at Versailles, when the model Stella Tennant wore a hunting hat with fox and rabbit and John stared at her for five minutes - almost on the point of tears to see what a great thing we'd achieved together."
Jones, 48, whose earliest memories were of his mother wearing a neat straw hat with gloves, was brought up near Liverpool on the Wirral Peninsula "where everyone wore a hat." That included Jones in a school cap and later a straw boater at boarding school. For all his fantasy creations, he has a penchant for a beret ("the T-shirt of hats") from its original Basque style, through Johnny Rotten's punk headgear to an asymmetric beret to mesh with Galliano's sense of subversion. That is also reflected in a love of crowns, like imperial confections for Dior and the recent British-to-the-core Comme collection.
Jones recalls his first airport meeting with Kawakubo, followed by a dinner in a Tokyo restaurant, where his legs went to sleep. When he couldn't stand up, "Rei was chuckling away - she has this façade of being an incredibly serious person, but then I saw her liveliness and frivolity." The designer also turned out to be a fellow romantic and the birds' nests of straw hats at Comme or the "broken bride" headdresses last season were some of Jones's most poetic work.
Jones says of designing for Kawakubo: "It was a complete adventure. She was the most fabulous designer in the world that I respected enormously. I could really see how she was changing fashion. It was as though hundreds of years of Paris couture were under attack."
For all his wacky individualism (think of a 1984 Gaultier mask hat with tassels dangling from the cut-out eyes) Jones has a rare ability to be wittily creative without ever betraying the spirit of the fashion designer. He remembers the Montana years at Lanvin couture, when Jones struggled to follow a perfectionist's demands for the right shade of blue felt hat to accompany the precise tailoring. Then there was Mugler, taking things "to such visual intensity" and changing everything right up to the last minute.
"Both Mugler and Montana were taking ready-to-wear into the world of couture," says Jones.
His own heart may also be in couture, but the millinery collections include graceful pieces for clients to attend English weddings and race meetings. There are also more accessible collections, particular for Japan. Shining through is a sunny personality that made a millennium hat as a cone with dangling streamers and a fringed straw South Pacific sombrero sprouting orchids and feathers.
"I love the whimsy of it," says Jones. "People ask me when I will be creating a range of bed covers. But I just do hats. And for me, that is the cake and the cherry on the cake."
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I really loved the pieces he did for Gibo
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