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Item of the week: the cowboy hat

What it is: If there was one accessory item that has been remarkably inescapable in the recent months, it has been none other than the cowboy hat. Its resurgence can be accredited to Beyoncé, who has adopted the headwear into her staple look ahead of the release of her newly released country album, Cowboy Carter. While there are lots of...

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Hats on

Always wanted own a designer hat? Now you can get your hand on a design original. For this year's Supergran charity campaign, Innocent has persuaded top designers and amateur knitters to create bobble hats for its smoothies. For the normal bottle price, you could pick up a chic little number by Orla Keily, Pringle or Paul Smith, and get the...

Fashion

Hold on to your hats

Millener to the stars Philip Treacy's exotic work has suffered a bit of a setback. "For the really long elegant feathers that I like to use, there's a particular breed of chicken we use, reared from the egg, Treacy told Andrew Pierce of The Times. The chickens were being looked after by Isabella Blow, Britain's favourite fashionista. "But a fox...

Fashion

Hip Hats

The name to look for when shopping for a hat with that special je-ne-sais-quoi is Sophie Iliffe. The Fulham-based milliner worked with Cosmo Jenks for over three years and still enjoys an ongoing relationship with the Queen Mother's milliner, Rose Cory. She launched her own label, SophieI, 15 months ago. "My customers are often between about 23...