Philip Treacy Fall 1997 Ready-to-Wear Collection

Editor’s observe: This assortment was at first introduced on February 26, 1997, in London, and has been digitized as component of Vogue Runway’s ongoing efforts to document historic manner demonstrates.

The milliner Philip Treacy appreciated out-of-the-box success. Just before his 1990 graduation from London’s Royal Faculty of Artwork he landed an internship with Stephen Jones. And not prolonged soon after it, he was taken up by the stylist and manner savant Isabella Blow, who wore a single of his hats for her marriage ceremony. “The whimsy is highly innovative,” she the moment mentioned of his chapeaux, and it was on a suggestion from Blow that Treacy was invited to produce hats for Chanel in 1991 following that, the commissions under no circumstances stopped coming.

About a thirty day period soon after creating the toppers for Alexander McQueen’s debut at Givenchy haute couture for the spring 1997 year, the a lot-in-demand from customers Treacy staged his personal madcap trend display for the duration of the drop 1997 completely ready-to-don year in London. His outing was offered at the Hippodrome nightclub in London on a cast abloom with English roses—Stella Tennant, Honor Fraser, Naomi Campbell, Iris Palmer, and Jodie Kidd, amid them. They wore the hatter’s fantastical creations, which ranged from a form of cubist fedora to an enveloping shell-like building. “Each, as ever, was a operate of artwork, in occasionally alien, frequently organic, form,” famous the Night Regular at the time.

These marvels had been executed in all manner of components, artificial and normal, like Treacy’s favored plumes. “I grew up with chickens, pheasants, and geese, so feathers are in my psyche,” the milliner informed Vogue in 2013. “You can build remarkable graphic designs and strains, and that’s what hats are about. They are all drawings–and I attract with feathers.”