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Model Erin O'Conner and comedian David Walliams arrive with a guest at 'Hats: An Anthology' by milliner Stephen Jones Photo: GETTY


Stephen Jones launched his exhibition, “Hats: An Anthology”, at the Victoria & Albert Museum yesterday evening with an array of celebrity guests...

Hats right! And Hats on for Stephen Jones, whose gala opening of “Hats: An Anthology” at the Victoria & Albert Museum caused a mega millinery-fest.

Tricorns, trappers and Trilbys; berets and balaclavas; paper party hats and picture hats; flowers, frills and feathers ... every conceivable type of headgear made its way into the V&A for the party.

Judy Blame came with a dagger through his skull – a children’s party trick from the Pound Store. Graham Rebak of Beach Blanket Babylon turned an original Rolling Stones’ ‘Sticky Fingers’ vinyl LP into a hat. Designer Selina Blow wore a fabulous silver brocade turban. “How Issy would have adored this,” she said.

There was a couple in matching Spanish galleons, made from brown cardboard. Jeweller, Hervé van der Straten, popped into Poilane in Elizabeth Street, bought a big round loaf and simply carved out a crown so he could wear it on his head. The flour kept on trickling onto his shoulders, but he didn’t seem to mind – and nobody tried to take a bite either.

One man had grabbed a stag’s head off the wall and festooned it with streamers and dreadlocks. Someone else had glued a plastic lobster onto the grilled covering of a room-fan; DJ ‘Tatsy Tim’, just wore his usual – orange and black Mohican. And the man himself? Mr Jones made a black glitter beret to match his tie. Everyone agreed this was the sort of party that could only happen in London.

Simon Ward of the British Fashion Council, in paper hat, thought we should do it once a year! Now hat’s a fantastic idea...