Elegant Sweeping Curves (From Buildings To Hats) |

A friend fo mine who, like me, is into millinery asked me if I came across in my researches about fashion and architecture a special hat that reminded me of a specific building.

The answer is definitely yes and here we have two wonderful examples. The first design is a textured beige strawcloth hat by milliner Sally Victor that was dubbed "The Guggenheim Hat", since it was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The second one is instead a Balenciaga hat that makes me think a lot about the project for the Ledigenheim building designed by German architect Bruno Taut.

The hat also seems to evoke the 1930 model of a spiral house by French architect Emilio Terry (that he called "en colimaçon" or "snail-style"), a building often compared to Philip Johnson's Church of Thanks-Giving in Thanks-Giving Square, Dallas, designed in 1977 (that was inspired from the Great Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, itself derived from the square, spiral Pillar of Gor in Persia, so there are a lot of spirals here…) .

The sweeping curves of the buildings seem to be perfectly reproduced in the structure of the hats, creating a wonderful portable architecture for the head.

Fans of Balenciaga will be happy to know that bookings are open for the "Balenciaga: The Work of the Master" talk (date: 23rd January 2012) at London's V&A. Author Miren Arzalluz will discuss Balenciaga's history and success analysing the designer's garments together with V&A Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles Lesley Miller (tickets are £15 each – a very reasonable yet valuable Christmas present for a fashion loving friend).

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