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Piers Atkinson Millinery is now moving into its sixth season. Following on from the more mature and commercially successful AW10 collection, SS11 is another large collection of 40 or so pieces. Each and every piece is created by Atkinson and his small team of craftspeople in his East London studio, using skills ranging from leatherwork, embroidery, blocking, gold leafing and hand-beading. His collections are known for their wit, the unexpected materials and the storytelling. This season the story floats somewhere between the stories of Adam & Eve and Sleeping Beauty, and celebrates Gaia, our creative legacies and the untamed natural forces of The Green Man.

Piers Atkinson hats and headpieces appear regularly in Italian Vogue, V Magazine, national and international editions of Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair and Harpers and the broadsheets. Clients include Anna Dello Russo, Rachel Weiss, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Kate Moss, Anna Trevelyan, Solange Partrage, Sereena Rees, Sarah Mower and Cate Blanchett.

Left to right: Anna Dello Russo, Rihanna, Erin O'Connor, Italian Vogue, Paloma Faith, Kate Moss with Nick Knight (ShowStudio) & Lady Gaga

Piers Atkinson sells in the UK at Fenwick's, Machine-A, Viola & Dover Street Market and and in Milan; Alan Journo, Tokyo; Sister and NY; Susanne Bartsch.
  
This season Atkinson’s hats were seen at the exhibition at London Fashion Week as part of the BFC’s Headonism initiative (www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/headonism), on the runway for Ashish and in a fashion film for J Maskrey styled by Judy Blame, screened the BFC film space. Paris Showroom opening 30th Sept to 5th Oct at Fashion Scout, Galerie Odile Ouizeman.

On top of this, Atkinson has just finished an order of over sixty hats and headpieces for guests at just one (very Fashion Week) wedding – surely a record!

Atkinson’s work can be seen in exhibitions in Australia, Austria and Tokyo. Please contact the studio info@piersatkinson.com for information.

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Piers Atkinson / AW 10
‘Headonism’ Stand at LFW
February 19th – 23rd

Piers Atkinson shows his new collection at Somerset House as part of the Stephen Jones curated, British Fashion Council millinery showcase; Headonism. Please find us on the first stand as you enter the East Wing, right opposite the entrance to the Tent.

For exhibition information please visit - www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/content.aspx?CategoryID=466

For information on Piers Atkinson please visit - www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/content.aspx?CategoryID=466
and
www.piersatkinson.com

We look forward to seeing you!

Save the Private View dates...
28th November; Chariot, Fool, Emperor & Force headpieces for performance at solo exhibition by artist Seb Patane. 21 Herald Street, London E2 6JT www.maureenpaley.com

3rd December; Kate Malone's group show including Piers Atkinson's MILLINERY SAMPLE SALE, illustrations and erotic collages! Balls Pond Studio, 8b Culford Mews, Hackney, London N1 4DX
www.katemaloneceramics.com

3rd December; group show of Fashion, Film, Architecture & Photography with Dazed Digital & Vogue Fabrics with late party. Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XB
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Limited edition poster lookbook.

Photograph of Ilvie @ Select by Brett Lloyd, styling by Kim Howells.

Available at Blow press days.

Tim Burton wears Piers Atkinson in Harpers US

Portrait by Tim Walker, styled by Jacob K.

Huge hats hit Selfridges
Keep your eyes peeled for Atkinson's specially commissioned millinery marvels for Selfridges Christmas windows!

Piers Atkinson at Topshop
Piers Atkinson’s a new range of pop-tastic headpieces are now available at Topshop.
Expect gold sequins, pearls and dolly shoes!
London at Viola and Digitaria • New York at Susanne Bartsch • Milan at Alan Journo • Tokyo at Sister

 

Headonism at LFW
Piers Atkinson shows SS 10 at new millinery collective at LFW

 
London milliners selected for a show curated by Stephen Jones.
The collections will be shown in the BFC Catwalk Show Space on a set designed by Michael Howells during the launch of 25 years of London Fashion Week.
 The Headonism Stand open to press and buyers in the East Wing at Somerset House.
Hats by new milliners Piers Atkinson, Søren Bach, Little Shilpa, Justin Smith and Noel Stewart.

 
SHOWstudio
The Left Calf
for The Fashion Body from SHOWstudio

a short film starring Ryan Styles and Elvis!


Styling: Erika Kurihara
Cinematography: Jeremy Valender
Direction: Marcus Werner Hed
Set Design and Hats: Piers Atkinson
Produced by Pundersons Gardens

Screened as part of a major exhibition staged at London's Somerset House at LFW.
SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution is a retrospective of nine years of online innovation, invention and creation. Based around the themes of 'Process', 'Performance' and 'Participation', the exhibition showcases over twenty projects from SHOWstudio's archives alongside unique new films, artworks and live fashion shoots and events specifically devised for this groundbreaking exhibition.
http://www.showstudio.com/project/fashionrevolution
 

Stockists
Piers Atkinson hats are now available both sides of the pond in boutiques pioneered by club & art sensation Scottee (London) and glamour phenomenon Susanne Bartsch (NY).

UK
Digitaria
60 Berwick St, Soho, London W1

USA
The Shop
Astor Place
NY NY

online
www.nightvision-online.com 
www.piersatkinson.com

Fashion* / Music! / Art? / Film~

Click below to see the short film directed by Vittoria Colonna to accompany Julie Feeney's 'Impossibly Beautiful'  - the new single starring Julie in a multitude of Piers Atkinson showpiece hats and headdresses.

 
 
Mika

And finally the ‘Betty’ balaclava (A/W 09) makes a brief and startling appearance in Mika’s video for ‘We Are Golden’ - look out!