millinery

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Curators have brought together nearly 200 outfits seen together for the first time, charting Chanel’s long career from the opening of her millinery boutique in Paris in 1910 to her final collection in 1971.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023

A 2003 book of photographs, “Paris + Klein,” portrayed the city of fashion and fine dining as a freak show of boulevard cafes where ladies in millinery ate with plastic forks on paper plates.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Here is a selection of some of this year's head-turning millinery.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2022

The Kentucky Derby is as much about $1,000 mint juleps and flamboyant millinery as a hoof-pounding competition that lasts barely two minutes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2020

“Suit yourself. But I did see Pearl Ann Larkin trying on a fetching hat at the millinery today. Big pink thing with feathers. She waved at me through the window.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool