"Adelaide"
2024 Competition Entry for the USA Milliners Guild
This piece is currently on display at the Met Museum in New York and available for purchase in the Gallery Store until October 2024.
This piece was designed and created specifically for the Milliners Guild international millinery competition in June 2024.
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Artist Statement
This fashion cocktail hat was inspired by the musical number "Take Back Your Mink" from Guys and Dolls (1955) starring: Vivian Blaine, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra.
In this fun and sassy musical number, Adelaide with her chorus sing "Take Back Your Mink" costumed in beautiful gowns, pillbox hats, gloves and pearls in varying shades of pink. Taking inspiration from this costume, the vibrant pink silk cocktail band tapers on the right to focus the eye on a single handmade silk flower with a strand of broken pearls hidden in the back.
Just like Adelaide ripping off her pearls and dress to reveal her daring lacy undergarments, the underside of this cocktail hat shockingly reveals a lace interior. An exciting secret that would be known to the wearer and no one else...well, unless she gives back the hat.
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Artist Statement
This fashion cocktail hat was inspired by the musical number "Take Back Your Mink" from Guys and Dolls (1955) starring: Vivian Blaine, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra.
In this fun and sassy musical number, Adelaide with her chorus sing "Take Back Your Mink" costumed in beautiful gowns, pillbox hats, gloves and pearls in varying shades of pink. Taking inspiration from this costume, the vibrant pink silk cocktail band tapers on the right to focus the eye on a single handmade silk flower with a strand of broken pearls hidden in the back.
Just like Adelaide ripping off her pearls and dress to reveal her daring lacy undergarments, the underside of this cocktail hat shockingly reveals a lace interior. An exciting secret that would be known to the wearer and no one else...well, unless she gives back the hat.
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Front & Back View
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Top & Underside View
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Right & Left View
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"Adelaide, Adelaide, Ever-loving Adelaide
Is taking a chance on me..."
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