STAR POWER: Stephen Jones unleashed a wave of colour for spring 2026, with a set impressed by the altering sky from daybreak till after nightfall.
Referred to as “A Rainbow in Curved Air” after the trippy 1969 album from the composer Terry Riley, it featured a peach hat with a visor, “that casts a golden shadow,” and one other with a tuft of pink feathers and a silk satin eye masks, with Muppet-like embroidered eyelids. Jones labored noon shades of orange and pink into striped or embellished solar hats, and in addition got down to create “the last word blue hat.”
The consequence was a conceptual type formed like “the define of a bicorn,” finished in marine blue with a feathery flourish on the high. For night, Jones regarded to Umm Kulthum, the late Egyptian singer and movie actress who adored scarves, for inspiration.
He created a fragile tiara with a crescent moon and draped it with sheer scarves dotted with diamanté stars formed into each zodiac formation.
A conceptual bicorn hat from Stephen Jones Millinery Spring 2026 Assortment
Courtesy of Stephen Jones Millin
“I wished to indicate that vogue will be one thing jolly, entertaining – and inspirational,” mentioned the designer throughout a walk-through of the brand new assortment at his Covent Backyard store and showroom.
The solar by no means units on Jones, who can also be one of many stars of “Blitz: The Membership That Formed the 80s,” an exhibition that opened over the weekend at London’s Design Museum. The present seems on the creativity that flowed from the membership, and its affect on fashionable tradition, from vogue and music, to movie, artwork and design.
The scene launched the careers of myriad “Blitz children” – musicians together with Spandau Ballet, Boy George and Marilyn, in addition to Sport of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton, plus Jones.
The milliner mentioned that, for him, the exhibition has been a “surreal expertise,” including that he can’t imagine the membership has change into a part of London historical past. He’ll be again on the museum on Tuesday, Nov. 4, in dialog with Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, to speak concerning the colourful outdated days.
