Hat Designer Justin Smith | euromaxx

I met Justin a few years ago back in London. He was not what I was expecting. He sports a gold tooth, a bristly Dalí-style mustache—both of which make him appear older than his 29 years—some serious tattoos and weighted tribal earrings that drag down his lobes. He trained as a hair-stylist, and was very successful in that business. Ask him where he gets his inspiration and he'll shrug and offer a rather ambiguous answer like..." I don't know, it comes from my brain somewhere".

I developed a momentary mild crush on him, or perhaps it was just indigestion, anyway he was charmingly eccentric, and completely down to earth in so much that he was very grateful for his hats to be featured in a small and fairly bad fashion magazine. He was just beginning to blow-up then, and had already been featured in a number of high profile magazines (V magazine, Vogue Italia, Wonderland to name a few), but was still relatively unknown . He creates collections of whimsical, often very outlandish creations, often based on hair styles.

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Justin has with Manish Arora, creating the head-pieces for the AW 2010, and colloborated with Moschino to create a number of hats for the Moschino Ready To Wear collection for Spring 2010.


Moschino Ready to wear SS2010


Manish Arora A/W 2010


Wound magazine

On the subject of Millinery, if your interested here are some works of two other London based designers, Soren Bach and Piers Atkinson.





























www.sorenbach.com










http://www.piersatkinson.com/