Heads turned.
Day made.
A small Mayfair atelier, hand-blocking hats and headpieces for weddings, the Royal Enclosure and private commissions. Trained at Stephen Jones, member of the Royal Milliners' Society — quietly making pieces since 2014.
Society · 2014
We take a small number of private commissions each season. Royal Ascot pieces are typically sketched in the new year — diary slots are limited and offered to returning clients first.
Recent
commissions.
A glimpse of pieces from the past two seasons — wedding hats, headpieces and a handful of Royal Enclosure commissions. Names changed where requested; clients are kept in confidence.
The week
that quietly
builds the year.
Royal Ascot is the millinery calendar's natural centre. Each year we take a small cohort of Enclosure commissions, sketched from January, blocked through spring and finished in the weeks before the meeting.
Pieces are designed to the outfit — sinamay discs, hand-curled feather mounts, sculpted felts and trimmed straw, all built to the codes of the Royal Enclosure without slipping into pastiche.
Four visits.
One piece.
Most commissions are six to ten weeks from first sketch to finished hat. Royal Ascot pieces run longer — typically twelve to sixteen weeks — to allow for the silhouette to settle on the head.
Consultation
Bring your outfit, fabric swatches and the occasion in mind. We discuss silhouette, scale and colour over tea in the salon.
Sketch & Block
A pencil sketch and chosen materials. The crown is hand-blocked over wooden forms — the same way it was done a century ago.
Trim & Fitting
Silks, feathers and findings hand-stitched in the atelier. You return for a private fitting before the piece is finished.
Delivery
Boxed in our signature ivory hat box, lined in tissue. Hand-delivered within London or couriered nationwide.
A small studio,
off Mount Street.
The atelier sits a short walk from Mount Street — a single room of wooden hat blocks, spools of silk, drawers of vintage trim and a cutting table that has seen more than its share of Ascot mornings.
The house was founded in 2014 after a long apprenticeship at Stephen Jones. We take roughly forty private commissions a year — never more — and we have done since the first season.
I've worn Plume & Pin to Ascot three years running. People stop me in the Royal Enclosure to ask who made it. Discreet, perfect, irreplaceable.
Mother of the bride is a quietly difficult brief — too much and you eclipse, too little and you fade. They struck it perfectly. I felt myself, on the day.
A bridal halo of horsehair and pearl. Six fittings, no hurry. It now lives in tissue paper, waiting for our daughter.
Visit the salon.
Bring your outfit.
Consultations are private, held in the salon, and last around an hour. We recommend booking eight to twelve weeks ahead — sooner for Royal Ascot or wedding pieces.
First Floor, Mount Street
Mayfair, London W1K