SOME HAT NEWS TO NOTE

Lina Stein Millinery has workshops coming up and she is offering a ten percent discount on hat courses until June 2009. www.linasteinmillinery.com/workshops.html.
   
IT’S BAD NEWS FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FASHION BUREAU: The Wall Street Journal has closed its fashion bureau. Christina Binkley and Lisa Bannon will stay in their jobs, but the remaining 8 staff members including Teri Agins and Cheryl Tan have been let go, effective at the end of March.

"We are closing our fashion bureau but will continue to cover fashion and retail by reassigning some but not all of our current staff," said a Dow Jones spokesperson.
   
I made a few mistakes in the last newsletter so to set the record straight I must tell you that the Headwear Association is not the AHA, it is the THA. I apologize to the THA, I got them confused with the AHA that is owned by a friend of mine in Florida. Ooops. Sorry about that. I also gave the wrong dates for the upcoming Stephen Jones Anthology at the V&A. I said it closed on March 31, but the date of the closure is May 31.