Rosie Boylan has built an amazing career out of hats. She’s created some of the most beautiful headwear you’ve seen for movies like The Great Gatsby, Australia and Moulin Rouge. Now, Rosie sells her creations from her shop in Newtown and continues to be kept very busy with private commissions. The Living Room Theatre is […]
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Interview with Out The Front
I was recently interviewed by Siobhan Toohill for Out The Front, a monthly podcast with a focus on design, sustainability and creativity in Sydney.
Talking hats with Neil
Neil shares with us one of his favourite 20th century vintage hats
Jasmine Zorlu blogs about Rosie Boylan and The Great Gatsby
Jasmine Zorlu blogs about Rosie Boylan and The Great Gatsby-2013 Rosie Boylan is featured on milliner Jasmine Zorlu’s blog
Catherine Martin wins Oscar for The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby has had some amazing recognition over the film awards season. Congratulations to Catherine Martin and everyone in her team, it is wonderful to be part of such a creative and innovative group. It has been amazing to see the warmth with which all of the hard work designing and making the costumes […]
From the Top: Milliner Rosie Boylan on the hats of Gatsby
From the Top: Milliner Rosie Boylan on the hats of Gatsby -2013 Rosie talks with Style.com about making Great Gatsby headwear
‘The Spirit of the Age’ – The Great Gatsby and historical millinery
A recent article in The Atlantic described The Great Gatsby as ‘a fabulous betrayal of 1920s fashion and this got me thinking about an issue at the heart of historical costume design and an ever present tension for those of us who work in this industry – how far should one go to be historically accurate with […]
Prada & Great Gatsby headwear
I have always been intrigued by how design is influenced by the interplay between fashion and film and the recent feature film The Great Gatsby is a hand in glove example of this relationship. The film showcases a collaboration between costume designer Catherine Martin and fashion designer Miuccia Prada with their creation of forty […]
Cabbage Tree Hats
Rosie Boylan, Sydney hat maker, talks about Australia’s first cottage craft, the Cabbage Tree Hat. Woven in Australia by first settlers and convicts to protect themselves from the hot Australian sun, the Cabbage Tree hat became the symbol of the ‘new chums’ of early colonial Sydney. As a milliner for stage and screen, I have […]
Headwear Incubator in Wagga Wagga
I was recently invited to conduct a workshop at the Wagga Wagga International Millinery Convention 2012. This is an event held every few years in regional New South Wales in the bustling rural city of Wagga Wagga on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River. The one week forum was organised by a bunch of committed and […]
