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Episode 4: Georgina Abbott interviews Vivienne Lake & Iona Montgomery
Welcome to London Hat Week at Home 2020. The lockdown won’t stop us celebrating our common love of headwear
In this episode, Georgina Abbott interviews Iona Montgomery & Vivienne Lake from Morley College London‘s own millinery team. We drafted them into the LHW team last year to help manage venues so we are asking them for the insider’s perspective on London Hat Week.
London Hat Week was founded in 2014 by British Hat Guild members Georgina Abbott of Atelier Millinery and Becky Weaver of HATalk to celebrate the craft of hatmaking. The majority of visitors to London Hat Week are independent designers running small businesses as makers and online retailers through their own websites and other channels such as Etsy.
Like most areas, the industry as a whole has been hit hard by the lockdown as most occasion hats are destined for large gatherings such as weddings and horse racing. In the UK, the Summer season is the equivalent of Christmas to other trades.
We are proud of our manifesto of celebrating hats and celebrating London in the city that is home to some of the most talented milliners in the world, and this time we aim to include even more hat enthusiasts than ever before! London Hat Week hopes to lift everyone’s spirits a little and play our part in recovery from these very difficult times.
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