MAD AS A HATTER

Judging from my preferred topics to post about, I seem to be as smitten with strange head wear as Marc Jacobs is. He, however, has an outlet for it.  Jacobs can jump into the rabbit hole and emerge with mad ideas about millinery.

Marc Jacobs
Fall 2012 Ad Campaign

I can only save my ideas for Halloween, which in fact is creeping up on us.

At least, his campaign for Louis Vuitton this fall did not entail a trip to Wonderland, only a ticket on the Orient Express.  Quite inspiring.

Thought bubbles are popping out of my head right now -- shaped like bulbous hats.


Note: Most of you fashionistas probably think this campaign is old hat, having seen the Fall runway shows back in the spring.  I'm just an ostrich whose head has been buried in the sand for months.

JEDI FASHION

I finally made it for an overdue manicure and pedicure, which meant down time to flip through my magazines.  (The backed-up stacks had gotten really tall).

Well, this certainly caught my eye:

Jean Paul Goode's brilliant Star War's concept for Harper's Bazaar this month.  

Flourescent bulbs standing in for light sabers was a stroke of genius.  And it looks like Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nicholas Ghesquière are thoroughly enjoying their Jedi duel.   I suppose the real "hats off" is to Ghesquière, for making Darth Vader's head gear worthy of Balenciaga.

Would you wear this Balenciaga hat?  Or only to a Star Wars Convention?

ASCOT'S HATS & FASCINATORS

I may be the only one in the US that wishes we wore head dresses with more imagination than baseball caps.  The mother of all hat events, the Royal Ascot, did not fail to impress again this year.

Here are a few of the items that sat atop ladies' coiffeurs:


All photos from the UK Telegraph

Marie Antoinette?

Peacock fascinator

Perfectly shaded while checking out horse stats

A daffodil in the grass

Wouldn't our days be brighter if we brimmed ourselves in these outlandish takes on a common chapeau?