“On my head sits my favourite party hat – a beret hand-crafted from tiny, jet-black bugle beads. I consider the black beret to be the pinnacle of style, so this is the ultimate version. The beret has marked many seminal moments of my life. On my first day at art college in 1976, I wore a beret. When I was a punk, I wore a beret, and I even wore one to the opening of my retrospective exhibition at the V&A, Millinery in Motion. There’s an exotica about it. It’s French, but not really,…
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