Jones
Stephen (1957). British milliner. Born in Kirby, Liverpool. He studied fashion at St. Martin’s School of Art from 1976 to 1979 before deciding to specialize in millinery. He opened his first salon in a fashion boutique in Covent Garden in 1980. He became one of the most famous personalities in New Romantic London. A frantic participant in the capital’s nightlife, he made friendships in the worlds of music, art, and fashion. Everybody was wearing his hats. Steve Strange and Boy George (he was also invited to appear in Culture Club’s video of the cult song Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? in 1983), Spandau Ballet, and Grace Jones were among his initial fans. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he maintained and increased his status as the king of hats, dressing the heads of all the most famous personalities in music, theater, and cinema as well as models and actresses for publicity. His creativity seemed boundless and independent to fashion trends. At the age of 20, his capacity to capture and interpret the inspiration of others led him to collaborate with the big names of high fashion and ready-to-wear including Gaultier, Mugler, Comme des Garµons, who saw his talent in 1984 and brought him to Paris to create their Collections. In 1990 he launched Miss Jones and Jonesboy, lines of great diffusion. In Japan, where he has lots of fans, he has accessories lines under license. He is the artistic consultant of the cosmetic house Shiseido. His hats are in the fashion Collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Brooklyn Museum in New York, Kyoto Art Museum in Japan, and the Australian National Gallery in Canberra. They have been included in important exhibitions such as Addressing the Century at the Hayward Gallery, London, and Art and Fashion at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.
&Quad;During the collaboration with Shiseido, he created colors for more than 200 beauty parlors and took on the role of art director for the fragrance division. During the last few years he has been in charge of the color selection for Fsp, a cosmetics brand created for teenagers.
&Quad;2003, Spring-Summer. He designed hats for the Collections of ten designers, among those were Brioni, Christian Dior, John Galliano, and Emanuel Ungaro. Jones produced an accessories range exclusively for the Japanese market, which featured sunglasses, bags, scarves to match hats, and Japanese hats created by Alps Kuwamura.
&Quad;His brand is distributed all over the world in 19 Italian cities and in 100 cities in the Far East.