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Blue never competes with the bride and suits almost every season. Here is when to choose bright blue or pale blue, what to wear with each, and 15 pieces from our London atelier. Blue fascinators for weddings are one of...

Orange is a warm-weather colour and one of the happiest choices a wedding guest can make. Here is when it works, what to wear it with, and 8 pieces from our London atelier. Orange fascinators for weddings belong to spring...

Black at a wedding works when the piece looks like a celebration rather than mourning. Here is when to wear it, what to wear it with, and 13 pieces from our London atelier. Black fascinators for weddings are at their...

Ivory and cream belong to the bride first. Here is how a bride wears them instead of a veil, when a guest can wear them too, and 13 pieces from our London atelier. Ivory and cream fascinators for weddings serve...

Purple runs from the softest lilac to the deepest plum, and each shade belongs to a different kind of wedding. Here is when to wear which, what to pair it with, and 14 pieces from our London atelier. Purple fascinators...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: which hairstyle works with which kind of fascinator, how to pin it so it stays, and the order to do things in on the day. The right hairstyle for a fascinator depends less...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: the definition, the difference from a hat and a fascinator, the rule that matters at Royal Ascot, and five pieces that show the range. A hatinator is a headpiece that looks like a...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: ten hand-made feather fascinators, headbands and hats, the feathers behind them, and how to keep them looking as they did on the day. Feather fascinators are the oldest trick in occasion millinery and...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: button, percher, mini saucer and pillbox, with eight hand-made small fascinators and the reasoning behind each. A small fascinator is a headpiece built on a base roughly the size of a saucer or...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: eight hand-made felt pieces for the colder months, what the felt is made of, how it becomes a hat, and how to keep it in shape for years. When the straw goes back...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: eight hand-made wedding hatinators, and the practical reasons a hatinator outperforms a hat from the ceremony to the speeches. Hatinators for weddings solve a problem hats create. A wedding is a day of...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: the easiest headpiece to wear, explained properly, with eight hand-made pieces from our collection. A fascinator headband is a headpiece built on a band that runs over the crown from one ear to...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: eight hand-made pieces with a birdcage veil, and the details that decide how a veil falls: the mesh, the width and where it is set. A birdcage veil is a short veil of...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: a gift edit for the hat lover in your life, with the sizing, timing and presentation questions answered before you have to ask them. Buying gifts for someone who loves hats is harder...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: the shapes of the 1920s to the 1960s, how each one was worn, and eight hand-made pieces that carry them into today. A vintage-inspired fascinator borrows a shape, an angle or a detail...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London: which mounts suit textured hair, where to place a piece on a puff, a bun, braids or locs, and eight hand-made pieces to try. Most advice on wearing a headpiece is written with...

Crimson with matte black roses, burnt peacock against a scarlet disc, and the four pieces that hold the most difficult colour in millinery. A red and black fascinator is not a compromise between two strong colours. It is the specific...

Wool felt, jet netting and copper-toned blooms, and the four pieces that carry burgundy through the cold half of the year. A burgundy and black fascinator does the job an all-black outfit is supposed to do, without the difficulty that...

Warm metal against black felt and satin, and the eight pieces that carry it best from a winter meeting into an evening. A black and gold fascinator does something a plain black one cannot: it puts light at the face....

Warm white with warm metal, the one pale combination that does not disappear in photographs. An ivory and gold fascinator solves the problem every pale headpiece has, which is that pale things vanish. Optic white photographs as a blank. Ivory...

One technique, three silhouettes, and the reason a navy headpiece needs something pale on it. A navy and white fascinator exists to solve a specific photographic problem. Navy is the one dark colour that nothing argues against at a celebration,...