The Secret Life of Straw Hats
While fashion and creativity may always go in hand in hand, at times, fashion identified with place may conjure usual specialities, brands, or techniques. Florence is renowned leather industry, for example, often overshadows the city’s longstanding relationship with straw accessories. The author examines a lesser known material and and a milliner from southern Italy who’s set up his laboratory in Florence, to share how diverse experiences and stories can expand one’s perception and interaction with fashion in the city.
“A third of the Tuscan region started to produce this type of wheat, and the city of Florence became the first manufacturer of quality straw hats in Western Europe.”
