Stephen Jones said: “If a woman wears a hat…she always has the door held open for her."
So when I learnt that Peter Jones was to hold an exclusive evening with milliner to the royals, Vivien Sheriff, to mark the opening of their new Hat Academy, I grabbed my hat and set off to their Sloane Square department store.
Vivien Sheriff started making a business out of hats 7 years ago and since then her business has gone from strength to strength. In fact, Vivien made more pieces for the Royal wedding last year than any other milliner and made the hat Kate Middleton wore for her first royal engagement; a service of dedication for a new RNLI lifeboat in Anglesey.
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