Editor’s Note: This collection was originally launched in London on February 26, 1997 and has been digitized as part of Vogue Runway’s ongoing effort to document past fashion shows.
Hatmaker Philip Tracy has found creative success. Before graduating from the Royal College of Art, London in 1990, he undertook an internship with Stephen Jones. Not long after, he was spotted by stylist and fashion expert Isabella Blow, who wore one of his hats at her wedding. It was a hint from Blow that in 1991 Tracy was invited to create a Chanel hat. After that, the commission never stopped.
About a month after creating the topper for Alexander McQueen’s Spring 1997 Givenchy haute couture debut, the in-demand Tracy staged a madcap fashion show in London for the Fall 1997 ready-to-wear season. His outing was showcased at London’s Hippodrome his nightclub with an English his rose-blooming cast of Stella his tenants, Honor his Fraser, Naomi Campbell, Iris his Palmer, Jodie Kidd. They wore hatter’s fantastical creations, from a kind of cubist fedora to enveloping shell-like structures. and often had organic forms,” he said. evening standard At the time.
These marvels were performed with all kinds of materials, man-made and natural, including Tracy’s favorite plume. “I grew up with chickens, pheasants and geese, so feathers are on my mind,” said the miller. trend 2013. They are all paintings and I draw them with feathers. ”
