Kate Commissions Lady Gaga's Favorite Milliner to Design a Hat For Jubilee Celebration Next Week

Monday, February 20, 2012

Kate Commissions Lady Gaga's Favorite Milliner to Design a Hat For Jubilee Celebration Next Week

Erotic designer Piers Atkinson, whose 2010 collection Sex On The Brain featured nudes in the linings and a Barbie doll riding a banana on the crown, has been commissioned to make a titfer for Kate.

She will model one of the Norfolk-born's creations - beloved by eccentric pop divas Lady Gaga and Paloma Faith - when she accompanies the Queen and Prince Philip to Leicester to launch the Diamond Jubilee tour or for a visit with HM to upmarket emporium Fortnum & Mason.

Queen of Jewelry

Brooches, usually worn on the left shoulder, were a favourite for the royal and the Queen was believed to have over 100 in her collection. A selection that would go with an outfit were presented to her - usually three at a time - by her senior dresser and confidante Angela Kelly on special trays that once belonged to Queen Mary. The royal had a wide variety of different brooches which she often wore with her usual pearl earrings and necklace, including a spray of flowers brooch by the people and government of Australia during her Coronation tour of 1954./