You are invited to visit the official London Hat Week Exhibition 2020 - To the Future and Back. You will be able to enjoy the 200 most innovative and beautiful hats made by milliners from around the world inspired by different eras in one place.

The year 2020 has always seemed fictional when it was mentioned and now that we are close to this imaginary time, we would like to invite hat lovers to time travel to the future and back with creative hat designs. We are introducing a dual “future” and “retro” themed London Hat Week exhibition this year. You will be able to see hats created for both themes:

A. “Future” theme - milliners from around the world to craft hats which will show us their vision of the future in their hat designs, whether it’s inspired by space travel, virtual or imagined world, sci-fi movies, or made of environmentally friendly, high technology, non-traditional materials, by a 3D printer, or in fluid, in out of the world shapes.

B. “Retro” theme - milliners time travel to the past to show the glorious eras when people wore beautiful and elegant hats as the highlights of their daily outfits, you could choose to use vintage fabrics, recycled felt or accessories such as feathers, ribbons, and velvet, or you could try to re-create the elegant shapes and lovely details that have disappeared from the fashion and millinery scenes since 1920’s - 1960’s.

We invite you to come and enjoy the wild imagination and to recall and reflect on the beautiful moments captured by milliners from around the world in the form of hats! There will also be a hat pop-up shop for you to try on over 100 beautiful hats!

OPENING HOURS:

11:00 -18:00 daily

- To reserve spaces to sell in the summer pop-up hat shop 2020 via: xterrace.com/hatshop20

The name of London Hat Week official exhibition series came from the historical event that took place in London in 1851 – ‘The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations’ or ‘The Great Exhibition’. It was the first in a series of World’s Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century, and it was a much-anticipated event. X Terrace fashion platform and Monique Lee Millinery celebrate world cultural heritage in magnificent hat designs at The Great Hat Exhibition series. Following last year’s exhibition where over 1500 hat lovers enjoyed the 200 hats created by milliners from 30 countries, we are pleased to announce the theme for 2020 London Hat Week official exhibition – ‘The Great Hat Exhibition – To the Future and Back’. Milliners from around the world have created hats inspired by the past and future, to show you their vision and memories on the hats. The exhibition will be held at at the Black Swan Studios, right behind the Fashion and Textiles Museum in London Bridge area, a wonderful central London venue within walking distance of some of the most celebrated London landmarks, The Shard, Tate Modern, and London Bridge.

To complete the experience, you can book a hotel stay at Shangri-La Hotel, London at the Shard. It's 5 minutes walking distance from the exhibition venue. You can get a special 15% off when booking your stay with this link: https://www.shangri-la.com/reservations/booking/en/index.aspx?corp_id=C18475699285&hid=SLLN

We reserve the right to make changes to the event, the tickets are not refundable unless the event is cancelled, we will refund the ticket cost minus eventbrite fees.