Harvy Santos
Millinery and Straw Hat Making (17-Guinea)
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Harvy Santos is a modern milliner who creates hats and couture headpieces that fuse traditional techniques with new materials, and timeless elegance with fashion-forward flare. Specialising in stitched braid on a 17-Guinea machine, his creations features exquisite details and fine lines, each piece is a unique creation entirely hand made from luxurious materials in his London studio.
Born in the Philippines, Harvy trained as a dancer and joined the professional company of the Hong Kong Ballet for six seasons before moving to the UK to study millinery. He worked for the Royal Ballet & Opera as well as leading British milliners Noel Stewart and Stephen Jones, and has made hats for numerous film and television productions including Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte, Disney’s Snow White and Wicked. His classical training, both on stage and in the workshop, continues to inform his elegantly energetic work.
Winner of multiple awards for his personal work and recognised by the British Fashion Council as part of a new wave of British milliners, Harvy launched his own label in 2014 and has produced twenty-one collections. Harvy's hats are on display in the National Museum of Scotland, were exhibited at the Spielzug Welten Museum in Switzerland and honoured with a major solo exhibition at Portugal’s Museu da Chapelaria in 2018.
Hats from his collections have appeared in glossy magazines around the world and graced many famous heads including Hebe Tien, Bibi Zhou, Isabella Rossellini, Natalie Dormer, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Ncuti Gatwa, Lady Gaga and Cynthia Erivo.
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