How it began; Part 1

I am from New York where winters are long and cold. Wearing a hat is a non-negotiable. There was a week as a senior at FIT where I lost about a hat a day. I remember one fuzzy blackberry colored beret. A green formed hat; others are not as memorable.

What I remember is that I needed a hat. I didn’t have any money to spare. At the time I was making about $ 275/week as Koos Van Den Akker’s Assistant Designer. What I did have was acces to his stock of materials. Hats don’t take a lot of material(at least the kind I was looking to make. I had somewhere to go and I made the quickest, warmest and most simple hat I could. One that wouldn’t get lost or if it did, I could make it again.

The result is my classic cloche.