Hats Off

Posted by: Billy Bride


It didn’t take long for something to fill the void left by the now-passe trilby and chintzy pork-pie hat, but after a good 6 months off the circuit, headwear is enjoying rejuvenated popularity. In fact, amidst the sea of recent fashion week street-style shots, rarely was a mop spotted without a hat atop it. The awkward face flattening, narrow-brimmed molds of the past (made seriously by unpopular by the powers of LiLo and Ashlee Simpson combined) have all but disappeared, and in their place we now find a series of effortless variations on the classic, universally flattering, wide-brimmed slouch and fedora (see Vena Cava, Moschino and Kenzo). And although this style has proven to be enormously popular amongst the off-duty catwalkers, the are also the more daring few burgeoning a niche for the revival of the turban. We know Prada pushed for this a few seasons ago, with measured success, but will the influence of mega-stylist Catherine Baba see it really take off this time around?

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