Jill Tracy / David J video

Everybody's favorite chanteuse, Jill Tracy, just let me know that she'll be wearing a House of Nines Design custom hat in her upcoming video with musician David J, of the legendary bands Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, and Love and Rockets. I'm all aflutter.

I love playing the '6 Degrees of Separation' game. Turns out Juliet Landau will be in the video as well (she played Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer). So, that means I'm only a couple/few degrees from all of these musicians whose music I love, the whole Joss Whedon clan, plus Gerry Anderson's 1960s sci-fi empire: Juliet's parents were in Space 1999. Oh! And they were also on the original Mission Impossible TV show.

An aside: did anybody else notice a similarity between the recent Leonardo DiCaprio movie Inception and Mission Impossible? Joseph Gordon-Levitt made the greatest Barney (the 'electronics expert' who was on every episode, and was the secret genius behind every mission): he was tough, no-nonsense, unflappable, and just took care of business, even when flying around weightless. Fantastic.


I'll send an update once the video is out!

This Just Arrived: Albino Peacock Feathers

Just received a huge shipment of rare and beautiful white albino peacock feathers.



They look great on bridal hats!



Peacock feathers are 'harvested' without harming the birds, when they molt (shed their feathers in preparation for growing new ones) naturally, once per year.



As you can imagine, albino peacocks are rare. Rarer still are the number of people who own one who are willing to go through the trouble of collecting and selling their molted feathers. Being a materials geek, I love anything gorgeous and unusual, so for the last two molting seasons, I have bought almost all of the albino peacock feathers available on the open market.

Fall Sneak Preview

My first batch of fall ladies hats are now on sale at ADS Hats and Dark Garden in San Francisco. Frilly, feathery cocktail hats, and super swank new top hat and bowler styles coming up!

Rock N' Roll Bride

I got a nice mention in Rock N' Roll Bride, for the work I did on Conor & Caroline's wedding.





Thanks to photographer Julio Fonyat for the fantastic photos!! See the rest here.

Sweatbands have arrived

Received my super luxe new sweatbands today. I swooned! Half in black, half in a dark cinnamon brown, and printed with my logo in silver foil. They're gorgeous.

Finished two mens hat samples tonight, more tomorrow. Photos next week!

Want to be Best Dressed? Wear House of Nines

Lovely Amber Marie Bentley was voted one of the 5 best dressed ladies at the 2010 San Francisco Opera Gala, in a House of Nines Design hat! Coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle is here.

Sweatbands, Coming Up

Just placed my first order of custom-made, super luxe leather sweatbands for men's hats. They're vegetable tanned, reeded and flanged (read: extra fancy with all the bells & whistles). Printed with the House of Nines logo in silver foil. They're going to be oldschool gorgeous. Should be here in about 2 weeks, I can't wait!!