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The Business of Fashion Podcast

Stephen Jones and Tim Blanks on the Craft of Millinery | Inside Fashion

The Business of Fashion Podcast

The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6770 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of Inside Fashion, BoF's editor-at-large Tim Blanks sits down with Stephen Jones, the prolific hatter who has played a defining role in millinery for decades.

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0:00.0

This episode of Inside Fashion is brought to you by Klarna.

0:03.6

Clarna lets you shop now and pay later.

0:06.1

Interest free at leading online retailers.

0:09.6

To add Klarna to your store, visit clarna.com.

0:15.6

The magical thing about when you see my hats or anybody else's hats in an exhibition,

0:22.7

they communicate in a way that clothing can't. I never had that desperation to change the world with one of my designs as dress

0:29.9

designers have to have, because if they don't have that, you know, they'd never make it. The relationship

0:34.8

between a hatmaker and his client, how intimate is that relationship?

0:39.9

Very intimate. It's their interpretation of what I do is the magical part. Actually putting the hat

0:46.7

on somebody is like crowning them. Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to Inside Fashion.

0:56.7

This week, our editor at large sits down with a true legend in the fashion industry, Stephen Jones.

1:02.4

Now, we always talk about fashion designers on B.O.F, but we very rarely get to sit down with a milliner, someone who designs hats.

1:10.5

And probably the most well-known

1:12.1

and respected milliner in our industry still working today is Mr. Stephen Jones. His current

1:17.4

exhibition at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton shows Jones's work as a curator of similar shows

1:23.5

over the years. And Tim sits down with him to understand a little bit about the psychology of people

1:28.5

who wear hats. So here's Stephen Jones in conversation with Tim Blanks inside fashion.

1:35.7

So Stephen, you have a show in Brighton right now at the Royal Pavilion, running until June.

1:42.4

And what intrigues me is that you have done quite a lot of shows.

1:49.4

It feels to me like you've done quite a lot of shows since you did hats at the VNA.

1:54.6

Ten years ago.

1:55.4

Ten years ago.

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