Fiona Bennett

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Fiona Bennett (born 1966 in Brighton , East Sussex ) is an in Berlin active, British - German haute couture - milliner .

Fashion and style

In 1992 Fiona Bennett founded her label of the same name "Fiona Bennett" in Berlin and has been designing hat creations ever since - from hats for everyday life to headdresses for the evening, wedding hats, mourning hats, headgear for horse races, soft caps to hats for shows and stage appearances , Film and advertising. Fiona Bennett and her team produce two main collections for men and women each year with different subtopics. Materials such as fur felt, straw, artificial fur, leather and silk are used.

Life

At the age of six, Fiona Bennett, the daughter of an English gas and water fitter and a German teacher, came to Berlin . After graduating from school, she began training as a milliner in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1985, which she completed in 1988 with the journeyman's examination. In the same year she began her career as a freelance milliner. In 1992 Fiona Bennett opened a studio in a factory on Brunnenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte . Her first productions that counted fashion in the ghost train - Performance , they together with the Austrian fashion designer Lisa D. including Berlin, Klagenfurt and Hamburg staged. In the early 1990s she attracted international attention with fashion performances that also included actors such as Rolf Zacher , Otto Sander and Wotan Wilke Möhring .

Christina Aguilera with a top hat by Fiona Bennett

In 1995 she developed a concept for the stage costumes of the Berlin rock band Rammstein, for which she designed the fire hats and the burning coat for singer Til Lindemann . From 1994 to 1996 she was appointed by Vivienne Westwood as a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1999 she moved the studio and hat salon to Große Hamburger Straße in Berlin-Mitte. In addition to her own hat collections, she has provided various stage plays and readings - mainly in collaboration with Ben Becker - and several national and international film productions. Since 2004 she has designed the headgear for the couture shows of the fashion designers Wolfgang Joop, Michael Michalsky and Guido Maria Kretschmer . In 2006 Fiona Bennett received the order to equip Christina Aguilera's back to basic world tour with six hats.

In 2009 she opened her Salon Bennett on Alte Schönhausener Strasse in Berlin-Mitte . In the same year, together with Emmy Urban, she founded the Kiss by Fiona Bennett label , a knitwear collection that is presented at international trade fairs and sold worldwide. In 2012, after the founding of Fiona Bennett & Hans Böhme GbR, another shop with a show studio was opened in Potsdamer Strasse in Berlin-Schöneberg . In 2015, the collaboration with Christina Aguilera continued: Fiona Bennett designed the headgear that the singer wore for the appearance at the NBA All Star Game in New York.

In 2015, Fiona Bennett received an invitation to the British Ambassador's private residence for Queen Elizabeth's birthday party . The wife of the British Ambassador, Lady Olivia McDonald, wore a white Bennet pillbox hat on the occasion of the Queen's visit .

In 2017 the first interior dream “Flush” by Fiona Bennett and her partner Hans-Joachim Böhme opened in the Berlin Variety Theater Wintergarten .

Fiona Bennett was creative director and interior designer of the renovation and expansion project "SEIN am Schloss" in Mühlheim Castle by and with Annette von Enzberg-Pieper, which opened in May 2019.

Your creations are regularly staged in photo shoots, including by Karl Lagerfeld . Fiona Bennett's clients include artists such as Ashton Kutcher , Hugh Jackman , Jan Josef Liefers , Brad Pitt , Roger Cicero , Ben Becker , Yoko Ono , Katie Holmes , Nadja Auermann , Enie van de Meiklokjes , Meret Becker , Elvira Bach and Christina Aguilera .

The milliner's designs are regularly published in international fashion magazines such as Vogue , Harper's Bazaar or Vanity Fair .

Trivia

In 2013 Fiona Bennett designed a collection of hats and headdresses made of porcelain for Villeroy & Boch . The milliner designed a hat for the touring exhibition Handmade in Germany in 2014. In 2000, the campaign received Beautiful hats Fiona Bennett advertising agency Scholz & Friends the Golden Lion in Cannes .

Roger Cicero at ESC 2007 with a white hat by Fiona Bennett

Productions

  • “Nosedive I” - hat object for the exhibition “Surrealism & Beyond”, curated by Erich Weiss for Galerie Von Bartha, Basel, April – June 2016
  • Temporary Store "Kiss by Fiona Bennett", Berlin-Mitte, 2010
  • “My Muses”, photo exhibition, Hutsalon Fiona Bennett, Berlin, 2008
  • “Berlin Bohème”, private salon show with Princess Hoor al Quasimi, London, 2006
  • “Late lunches”, fashion performance with Just Mariot Maxwell, Berlin, 2004
  • "Day's after the night", hat show with Rammstein , Praterinsel, Munich, 1996
  • "Life sucks", room concept with FLATZ, Praterinsel, Munich
  • "Siegfrieds Lust - Camouflage & Deception", fashion performance with Lisa D., Marstall Theater Munich (with Otto Sander , Flatz, Rolf Zacher , Wotan Wilke Möhring ), 1994
  • “Suddenly obscene: the lilac”, fashion performance with Lisa D., Bar every reason , Berlin, 1993
  • “Goose in white”, fashion performance with Lisa D., Jungbrunnen, Berlin, 1992
  • "Garden of the Senses", anniversary party 10 years Playboy, concept and artistic direction with Lisa D., Treibhaus Munich, 1992
  • "Tunnel of love", fashion performance in Geisterbahn with Lisa D., Berlin, 1991

Exhibitions, fashion shows and trade fair participation (selection)

  • Hats for Wunderkind Couture, Wolfgang Joop, Vogue Italia, 2016, Corso Como Milan
  • Kiss by Fiona Bennett , Premiere Classe Paris, 2015, 2014, 2013 Messe, Paris
  • Hats for the Michalski couture show, 2015, Berlin
  • Fiona Bennett , Premiere Classe Paris, 2014, Fair, Paris
  • Hats for the couture show Kaviar Gauche , 2014, Berlin Fashion Week
  • Hats for the couture show Guido Maria Kretschmer, 2013, Fashionweek Berlin
  • Hats for Puma by Guido Maria Kretschmer , 2012, Fashion Week Berlin
  • Kiss by Fiona Bennett, capsule, 2011, Messe, Paris
  • The ART of contemporary Millinery , group exhibition, 2009, London
  • Hat exhibition, 2008, Zurich
  • My Muses , exhibition 2008, Berlin
  • Brighton photo project with Ulrike Schamoni, 2008, Brighton
  • Draft of a special edition for the exhibition Hilla v. Rebay , 2006, Guggenheim Berlin
  • Hats for the Wunderkind collection Wolfgang Joop, 2004 and 2006
  • Day after night , hat performance with Rammstein, 1996, Praterinsel Munich
  • Fashion - Fetish - Gender, 1996, exhibition, Academy Tutzing

Equipment (selection)

  • Hats for the film production Point Break , 2014
  • Hats for the film production The Beloved Sisters , 2012
  • Caps for the hotel staff of the Brandenburger Hof, Berlin, 2012
  • Headgear for the hotel staff of the nhow hotel , Berlin, 2010
  • Costume design Novelles Aventures , Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin, 2010
  • Costume design The Bible , Ben Becker, 2008
  • Christina Aguilera, hats and equipment for the back to basic world tour , 2006
  • Costume design , swords in the breast , Ben Becker, costume design, 2005
  • Cabaret , head of costume design, Bar Any Reason , 2004
  • Costume design, We take off, Ben Becker, 2001
  • Equipment NIL advertising campaign, 2001
  • Stage equipment for the Herzeleid tour, Rammstein, 1995

biography

  • Fiona Bennett with Eva Sichelschmidt: Vom Locken der Federn , Knesebeck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3868736083 , 224 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Focus Online: With fire and porcelain: These are the most extraordinary hat creations - video. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ She has her hat on now. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hatter - The Headdresser. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ A moment with: Fiona Bennett. In: WAIT A MO. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Hatter - The Headdresser. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  6. ↑ In the bar with the most beautiful headdress: Fiona Bennett asks for a hat party. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Fiona Bennett, Hutkünstlerin. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  8. ^ Fiona Bennett - hat fashion in Berlin. (No longer available online.) In: myentdecker. July 14, 2014, archived from the original on July 19, 2016 ; Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Fiona Bennett equipped the singer Christina Aguilera for her world tour: hats for the stage. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Fiona Bennett looks after Christina Aguilera. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Hut Palace. In: fionabennett.de. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Christina Aguilera - 2015 NBA All Star Game. March 5, 2015, accessed July 20, 2016 .
  13. ↑ This is how the Queen celebrates her birthday in Berlin. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  14. ↑ The Queen attends the British Ambassador's garden party. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  15. ↑ A quiet place with style. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  16. ^ Wilfried Waibel: Renovation of the rear castle begins. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Fiona Bennett. In: friends.villeroy-boch.de. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  18. ↑ "Handmade in Germany" on tour. (No longer available online.) In: www.handwerksblatt.de. Archived from the original ; Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Fiona Bennett's Hats: "Feathers" outdoor advertising, advertising agency: Scholz & Friends Berlin. In: Advertising Archives: Creative Advertising: Festival Winners: Coloribus. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Julia Siepmann: Fiona Bennett looks after child prodigies . July 24, 2004 ( welt.de [accessed December 20, 2019]).
  21. ↑ a b Meret Becker in the third “Babylon Berlin” season. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bennett, Fiona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German haute couture milliner
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton , East Sussex