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Friends in feathers share flight of fancy

Friends in feathers share flight of fancy

"I know I’ve never seen this hat before, yet its message seems so personal it’s as if it is talking aloud."

Marion Hume: "How strange it is to have memory encapsulated in a hat." 

Marion HumeFashion Writer

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This is a story about a feathery talking hat and wild birds that come when you call. It begins at Brighton Pavilion, finished in 1823 to the bonkers whims of George, Prince of Wales.

And it ends – well, I hope it will – on an island every bit as fantastical as a minareted palace plonked down in an English seaside town.

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Marion Hume
Marion HumeFashion WriterMarion Hume is an international fashion writer. She has been covering the fashion industry for more than three decades. She is based in London.

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