Crowning the new Ford Fiesta Car

I was asked by Ford to create a crown that brought to life the details and attributes of the new Ford Fiesta.

I designed a crown with a quilted leather headband and royal blue crown jewels and used an actual gear stick as the centre piece along with seat belt arches. It was really important to me that the crown reflected the Fiesta whilst following my millinery techniques. It was really fun to experiment with new materials -  I’ve certainly never used leather and metal on a hat before! I then worked with a talented team of designers and 3D scanners and carpenters to scale up my creation to Fiesta size. The giant crown weighs in at 90kg, features 200 hand painted crystals and uses 800m of seat belts.

Watch the video here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1503629/The-Ford-Fiesta-taken-crown-UK-s-favourite-car.html