Bailey

Xenobia Bailey was an american milliner. In a career that began in the 1980s, she created the hats for Spike Lee’s film Do The Right Thing (1989). Bailey favors crochet work for her unisex hats whose shape and color combinations are inspired by Africa and the artists of Brooklyn.
In recent years the designer has moved in the direction of art work and away from the world of fashion, as in the project Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk, in which complicated crochet work is used in a way that recalls the folk art of America and Africa.