![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
After four nights of previews, the Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of The Light in the Piazza opens tonight, with costumes by Anne Kennedy. (Note: a video with sound automatically starts when you visit the show page.)
I had worked on two prior productions with Ms. Kennedy--God's Man in Texas and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, both at PlayMakers--and we get along wonderfully as creative collaborators; when she inquired whether i'd like to do contract millinery for the Philadelphia production, i readily agreed. I had just finished setting up my private millinery studio space in Durham and was excited to work on some 1950s period hats!
Then i discovered that it was going to be directly in conflict with the development of Nicholas Nickleby...but luckily, two of my former students, Randy Handley (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
handyhatter) and Candy McClernan, were interested in helping out! Between the three of us, we managed to coordinate the labor such that Piazza got their hats, and none of us got behind on Nickleby.
( photos of the work )
So, consider this a formal notice: my students and i are prepared to accept select millinery contracts for blocked or patterned hats in buckram, felt, and straw, and millinery refurbishment of damaged vintage and antique headwear. We need either renderings, research, or an extant hat to copy or restore. Costs are contingent upon the complexity of the designs, and do not include materials/trims/feathers or shipping and handling. We can provide mockups for initial fittings for an additional fee, and also can custom dye trims/linings/feathers.
Drop a comment, a PM, or an email to inquire or to solicit a millinery bid from us for your show or event!
Speaking of hats, if you are in New York City, you have the opportunity to attend the second annual Saint Catherine's Day Fete tonight! Some photos from last year are here in a slide show. Who doesn't love a good excuse to wear a fabulous hat? There will be a hat parade, cocktails and hors d'oeurvres, and a millinery contest for best hat! ( Click for event details. )
I had worked on two prior productions with Ms. Kennedy--God's Man in Texas and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, both at PlayMakers--and we get along wonderfully as creative collaborators; when she inquired whether i'd like to do contract millinery for the Philadelphia production, i readily agreed. I had just finished setting up my private millinery studio space in Durham and was excited to work on some 1950s period hats!
Then i discovered that it was going to be directly in conflict with the development of Nicholas Nickleby...but luckily, two of my former students, Randy Handley (
handyhatter) and Candy McClernan, were interested in helping out! Between the three of us, we managed to coordinate the labor such that Piazza got their hats, and none of us got behind on Nickleby. ( photos of the work )
So, consider this a formal notice: my students and i are prepared to accept select millinery contracts for blocked or patterned hats in buckram, felt, and straw, and millinery refurbishment of damaged vintage and antique headwear. We need either renderings, research, or an extant hat to copy or restore. Costs are contingent upon the complexity of the designs, and do not include materials/trims/feathers or shipping and handling. We can provide mockups for initial fittings for an additional fee, and also can custom dye trims/linings/feathers.
Drop a comment, a PM, or an email to inquire or to solicit a millinery bid from us for your show or event!
Speaking of hats, if you are in New York City, you have the opportunity to attend the second annual Saint Catherine's Day Fete tonight! Some photos from last year are here in a slide show. Who doesn't love a good excuse to wear a fabulous hat? There will be a hat parade, cocktails and hors d'oeurvres, and a millinery contest for best hat! ( Click for event details. )
