By Chris M.
What a wonderful cocktail for the opening of the 2015 Montreal Fashion and Design Festival, with the conference of the well-known milliner Stephen Jones. I was very pleased to be in the garden of the Modern Art Museum last Monday enjoying a fabulous glass of wine next to great designers such as Jean-Claude Poitras, Denis Gagnon, Judith Desjardins, Marie St-Pierre and Philippe Dubuc.
The Montreal Fashion & Design Festival was happy to celebrate its 15th birthday this year and offered us a beautiful program covered with conferences of different leading figures in the fashion industry such as Jean-Fançois Fullum, Patricia Field, Adam Katz Sinding, Scooter Laforge, Marc-antoine Coulon and many others. The Fashion and Design Festival is also an opportunity to attend fabulous fashion shows presented by local designers and fashion bloggers. The Montreal Fashion Society was also part of this edition.
Stephen Jones’ conference officially opened this 15th edition. Want to know a little bit more about him? Stephen jones is a great figure in the fashion world, a London-based Milliner who has worked with designers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano (Dior) and Marc Jacobs. He has designed hats for Grace Jones and Princess Diana and has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth for services in fashion. Stephen Jones studied Fashion at St Martin’s University in London and opened in the 80’s his first millinery salon in the heart of London’s Covent Garden. In 1985, his hats were for the first time exhibited in the renowened Paris Louvre Museum. After his first day as a tailor trainee, he realized what he wanted to do and decided to be a Milliner. He shared a great advice with us during the conference: to succeed you have to target and believe you’ll be THE best and THE reference in your field.
Among his celebrity clientele, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Dita Von Teese and Mick Jagger. A passionate and fascinating personality with a legendary style, Stephen Jones brings you through his hats, in a world filled with sensitivity, different forms, fabrics and materials. Each of his hats has strength and power, Stephen Jones wants to design hats which go first with ethics and sensibility, it’s what gives you this stunning emotion when you first see one of his hats.
Stephen Jones likes to work with younger generations, people who begin in fashion and the already established. He is the Milliner of all times, through years and generations his hats are going strong with the fashion moods of history.
Photo credit Chris M.
