The British milliner Stephen Jones, known for his ‘transformative and fun’ headwear – as the designer described in his 2016 Rizzoli-published tome, Souvenirs – is to be celebrated in a new exhibition at Paris’s Palais Galliera gallery, it has been announced today (18 July 2024).
Titled ‘Stephen Jones, chapeaux d'artiste’ (‘hats of an artist’), the career-spaning exhibition will encompass four decades of creation, from Jones’ rise to prominence in the early 1980s as part of the Blitz Kid and New Romantic movements – epitomised by the liberated, outré outfits worn by figures like Leigh Bowery and Boy George – to the heights of haute couture, creating millinery for Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler, among others.
