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)Publication: news.com.au
Location: Australia
Date: 28 November 2007
First paragraph: "IT has spent the past three months laid up with equine flu, but Sydney's racing fraternity has finally got its appetite back. According to organisers at Royal Randwick, logistics for this weekend's return to racing are staggering."
Headline: Philip Treacy: Madcap milliner receives OBE – link to article
Publication: telegraph.co.uk
Location: United Kingdom
Date: 19 November 2007
First paragraph: "Philip Treacy, the London-based milliner who has designed hats for royalty and rock 'n' roll, has been awarded an honorary OBE for services to the British fashion industry."
Headline: Hats off to lads, ladies of fashionable persuasion – link to article (with photo
)Publication: The Age
Location: Australia
Date: 2 November 2007
First paragraph: "No longer content to blend into the background of women's fancy frocks and towering head sculptures, Melbourne's men are embracing the hat for the races."
Headline: Put a Lid on It – link to article (with photos
)Publication: The Washington Post
Location: United States
Date: 25 October 2007
First paragraph: "Going through Grandma's attic for vintage fashion finds is now old hat. But you may be going back upstairs – this time, actually, for old hats."
Headline: Old hat? Not any more... – link to article (with photos
)Publication: telegraph.co.uk
Location: United Kingdom
Date: 24 October 2007
First paragraph: "For the past 40 years, millinery has been confined to weddings and funerals. But, finds Maria Fitzpatrick, it's back on the high street – and is great fun to wear."
Headline: Hats off to celebrity milliner – link to article (with photos
)Publication: New Zealand Herald
Location: New Zealand
Date: 11 October 2007
First paragraph: "Milliner-to-the-stars Philip Treacy is a man on a mission. The designer, who is arguably one of the most significant fashion personalities to visit New Zealand, is in town for three days to meet with the local design community and to give a public lecture at the Auckland Museum tonight."
Headline: Frock up! Hats on! – link to article (with photo
)Publication: The Age
Location: Australia
Date: 4 October 2007
First paragraph: "ON THE brink of the spring racing carnival, as the days warm and lengthen, haute couture milliners work a steady 12 to 14 hours day. A week before the first race, however, that cranks up to round-the-clock workloads as 11th-hour orders flood in. This is their moment."
Headline: Who'd want to be a milliner right now? – link to article
Publication: The Australian
Location: Australia
Date: 3 October 2007
First paragraph: "Now is the time of long, lonely nights for any milliner worth their hat block. More than 80 per cent of turnover is generated in the three months before November as race-going women – and occasionally men – scramble for Spring Carnival headgear."
Headline: Fashion stalls at barrier – link to article (with photo
)Publication: news.com.au
Location: Australia
Date: 28 August 2007
First paragraph: "Randwick milliner Donny Galella has always had his eye on expanding globally. But he may be heading overseas a lot sooner than he planned if the equine influenza virus devastates the Spring Racing Carnival."
Headline: Putting the Glorious into Goodwood – link to article
Publication: telegraph.co.uk
Location: United Kingdom
Date: 16 July 2007
First paragraph: "What is it with women? Mention a day at the races and taste seems to fall at the first hurdle. Last month's Royal Ascot was a case in point, as styles on display veered from the rude to the ridiculous. Some ladies wore hats clearly designed by a blind milliner; others turned up in absurd headpieces that invited derision, not admiration."
Headline: Milliner hangs her hats on recent publicity – link to article (with photo
)Publication: Columbus Dispatch
Location: United States
Date: 5 July 2007
First paragraph: "Amy Hamilton creates hats that can cost hundreds of dollars and can't be found in department stores."
Headline: To cap it off – link to the article (with photo
)Publication: The Advertiser Adelaide
Country: Australia
Date: 31 Mar 2007
First paragraph: "Watch out Princess Mary... stylish Adelaide lass Grace Cabot has her sights set on you. A flourishing milliner, Grace has no reservations in laying down career goals and going for them with full force. It's this attitude that's snagged her a spot at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in April."
Headline: Truly, madly, uniquely, Isabella Blow – link to article (with photo
)Publication: The Age
Location: Australia
Date: 11 May 2007
First paragraph: "The death of fashion's most spectacular eccentric at the age of 48 this week reminds us how precious originality is, write fashion editor Janice Breen Burns and Maev Kennedy."
Headline: The Woman No Hat Could Tame – link to article (with photos
)Publication: The New York Times
Location: United States
Date: 10 May 2007
First paragraph: "Isabella Blow, the English eccentric and sorcerer of talent who died this week, was a completely implausible figure. You could not explain her and you could not reason with her. She was incredibly bright on the subject of fashion and rarefied tastes, a fact she wore on her sleeve and on her head. She loved a bustle, a corseted waist and a spectacular hat. And not for her the mushy-pea variety, the Ascot bonnet."
Headline: French fashion industry losing its "little hands" – link to article (with photos
)Publication: The Seattle Times
Location: United States
Date: 10 May 2007
First paragraph: "Lorenzo Re might just have the fashion industry's least glamorous job. Alone in his dusty Paris workshop, he carves, chisels and sands limewood chunks into rounded molds used to shape extravagant toques and fedoras for the likes of Dior and Chanel."
Headline: High-Stakes Derby Hats – link to article (with photos
)Publication: Forbes
Location: United States
Date: 1 May 2007
First paragraph: "Move over mint julep. Another accessory is poised to steal your thunder. This weekend England's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip will be at Churchill Downs for the 133rd Run for the Roses. That means custom-made hats are under the spotlight, with milliners across the country frantically filling requests for bespoke Kentucky Derby toppers."
Headline: Hats off to Louisville – link to article (with photos
)Publication: courierpress.com
Location: United States
Date: 29 April 2007
First paragraph: "There was a time when a woman wouldn't leave the house without the perfect hat to complement her dress."
Headline: re: Anne Sawyer, crowning racing's elite – link to article (with photo
)Publication: Louisville Courier-Journal
Location: United States
Date: 23 April 2007
Highlight: "Enduring art: 'I design one-of-a-kind hats... It's not a lost art. You can tell the difference between a mass-produced piece and one of mine if you put them side by side... That old-fashioned hat millinery never goes out of style."
Headline: courier-journal | Photo Galleries | The Courier-Journal Louisville – link to article (with photos
)Publication: Louisville Courier-Journal
Location: United States
Date: 5 April 2007
Highlights: "Why style is important: 'People see your style before they know you. It's your style that does the talking first.'"
Headline: Millinery for the masses – link to the article (with photo
)Publication: XPRESS
Country: United Arab Emirates
Date: 5 April 2007
First paragraph: "For the tenth year in a row designer Lynn Holyoak has brought her collection of hats branded Hattitude to the race goers of Dubai. Her love of millinery and the city makes her fly all the way from Brisbane, Australia every year."
Headline: Top this off for creative fashion – link to the article (with photo
)Publication: The Advertiser Adelaide
Country: Australia
Date: 23 Mar 2007
First paragraph: "If the hat fits, wear it. That is the motto for many South Australian women donning hats not only for the races but also at weddings, parties and luncheons."
Headline: From NY to Tokyo, hats make a quiet comeback – link to article (with photo
)Publication: International Herald Tribune
Location: United States
Date: 27 February 2007
First paragraph: "Berets, wide-brimmed hats and cloches popping up on the runways, plus an increase in the number of students signing up to be schooled in the subject, seem to indicate that another millinery moment is imminent."
Headline: World-Class Milliners Showcase Their Latest Collections at BurJuman – link to article
Publication: Al-Bawaba
Location: United Arab Emirates
Date: 14 February 2007
First paragraph: "As the city gears up for another Dubai World Cup, BurJuman is hosting a 10-day millinery exhibition, the biggest of its kind in the region, prior to the world's richest horserace."
