• Stephen Jones 2017 CV

Stephen Jones

2017 CV

S/S collection: ‘Shade’

A/W collection: ‘Haute Couture & Prêt-à-Porter’

 

Collections:

New York: Alexander Wang, Marc Jacobs

London: Grace Wales Bonner, John Skelton, Ryan LO

Milan: Moschino

Paris: A F Vandervorst Haute Couture, Christian Dior RTW + HC, John Galliano, Thom Browne Men’s & Women’s

Russia: Gosha Rubchinskiy, Gosha Rubchinskiy x Burberry

 

Stephen Jones celebrated '100th' Birthday

SJ birthday breakfast hosted by Fenwick, Bond Street, with a celebratory window display including hats from SJ archive.

40 years since SJ made his first hat celebrated with a milliners picnic in the Queen Mary's Rose Garden, Regents Park

 

Exhibitions:

 ‘Christian Dior, Couturier du Rêve,’ at The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris & ‘The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture,’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; SJ hats spanning his 21-year career at Dior. Created hats & headresses to accompany the mannequins.

‘The Hats of Stephen Jones’. 8 hats from the SJ archive exhibited throughout the galleries of Saint Louis Art Museum, USA. SJ speaker at the ‘Degas Symposium.’

SJ archive and newly commissioned hat exhibited at ‘The Vulgar’ exhibition at the Barbican, London; The Belvedere Winter Palace, Vienna & ModeMuseum Hasselt, Belgium

‘The Moors’ hat from SJ archive the ‘House of Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth,’ Derbyshire.

‘A Passion for Fashion – 300 years of style at Blenheim Palace’ SJ exhibited ‘Favourite’ hat at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. ‘Christian Dior Chapeaux!’ SJ talk accompanied by SJ x Dior hats.

‘Susanne Bartsch: Art-a-Porter’ at Tampa Museum of Art, USA featured hats from SJ archive, worn by Susanne Bartsch.

SJ interview at ‘North’ Exhibition, at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool & Somerset House, London.

‘Fashion Together’ SJ x Thom Browne sketches and outfits exhibited at London College of Fashion, London.

‘The Overworked Body: An Anthology of 2000’s Dress’ featuring hats from SJ archive at the MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York.

‘POWERMASK’ SJ archive and collaborations with, Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Maison Margiela, Thom Browne and Walter Van Beirendonck exhibited at the Wereld Museum, Rotterdam.


 

Commissions:

SS 2017 hat ‘Radiant’, collaborated with Royal Ascot Racecourse for, ‘The Royal Ascot Collective.’ Officially sponsored by Fenwick

Created ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ hats for Port Eliot festival

SJ commission 6 flower headdresses for Katy Perry’s at Glastonbury Festival

Veiled feather headdress for Erin O’Connor who received her MBE from Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth II

Turban for Model of the Year winner, Adwoa Aboah for the British Fashion Awards at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

‘First Editions: Re-covered’ SJ created a sleeve for the first edition ‘A Clockwork Orange’, Heinemann 1962 sold through Sotheby’s, all proceeds went to House of Illustration charity.

Wedding veil for Pippa Middleton

Wedding veil for Miranda Kerr

 

Lecturing:

SJ in Conversation with Manolo Blahnik, Alina Marazzi and Judith Clark, ‘Anna Piaggi: A Dreamer in the fashion world’  at the London College of Fashion

‘In conversation’ with Alex Fury at Port Eliot Festival, about ‘Stephen Jones: Souvenirs’ book with SJ archive fashion show.

‘In conversation’ with Lou Stoppard for the ‘Fashion Together’ book at the Punchroom, Edition Hotel

Mentored Harvy Santos, Sophie Beale & The Season Hats for the Headonism initiative supported by the British Fashion Council.

Jury member of the Geneva School of Design, Switzerland judging BA and MA degree collections. SJ lecture and presentation for the Jewellery students.

Mentored and coached for 5 international students from the MOAM collective at the Amsterdam.

 

Publications:

SJ archive hats featured in the ‘Manolo: The boy who made shoes for Lizards’ film

‘Unseen: John Galliano’ by Robert Fairer, text by Claire Wilcox

‘Dior: The Collections, 1947-2017’ by Alex Fury

‘Fashion Together’ by Lou Stoppard

SJ Cover and editorial of SJ 12 favourite hats from his archive with an interview with Suzy Menkes for Luncheon Magazine, Issue 4. Launch in Trading Museum, Paris & Dover Street Market, London accompanied by an exhibition of the photographed hats.

SJ x Marc Jacobs SS18 turbans featured on the December 2017 issue of the newly appointed Editor in Chief, Edward Enninful for British Vogue, accompanied by an editorial shot by Steven Meisel.

 

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