BILL CUNNINGHAM WENT ON A FASHION PHOTO SHOOT IN NEW YORK CITY AND WOULDN’T YOU KNOW HE TURNED UP WITH BAROQUE PRINTS

Cunningham describes it best: “fin de sècle textile patterns and Art Nouveau movement have injected a new spirit into the current rigid style of fashion. The most stunning example, large photo at right, was worn last month by the New Yorker Ingrid Yonke, it was hand-painted to duplicate the cut-velvet 1900 Worth gown next to it, now on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s British fashion exhibition.”

“Spring clothes are echoing the flourishes of gates, like the one above, one of the beauties at Old Westbury Gardens, on Long Island. Exotic flowers like the black iris, bottom left, called "Hello Darkness," and the vines of scarlet nasturtiums were just a couple of nature’s influences on textiles of the Art Nouveau period.”

Well put. If I were to put in my two cents I would say that Print headwear a la Pucci should be in the forefront of your hat collections for women. Colorful prints and historic black and white graphics are a must. Why not consider it an artist palette for the head. Think Picasso for 2007.