Hats can be for protection, religious reasons or fashionable and something you like to have on your head. I myself enjoy everything from classic baseball-caps, beatle caps, cloth caps to the trilby style hat. The baseball-cap I probably like a lot because they often have a symbol or logotype that is clear and dominant - if one feels like standing out in that way. Now, that is not an everyday look. I guess I have a passion for a lot of different styles of head-ware. I’ll get back to more of that in the future.

I designed a spring fashion kind of design a while back. This is taking it a little bit further - same colour-scheme and feeling to suit the “YO – Tokyo” line. Giving you some more stuff to see from the clothing line - a hat inspired by the Japanese flag – white and red. The circle-shaped hat, or maybe even slightly elliptical, is just like the red sun (dot) in the flag. The red is meant to be silk and with a highly glossy feeling. The top of the hat in a white smooth but starched tight-weaved cloth. A blouse in the same material – maybe not so much starch in it so it is possible to wear. Still it has to be a hard and crisp look. This blouse should have the same lining as the hat. A discreet cut in front kept together with a band sewn across - still a sleek Asian feel to it - inspired by the old Bruce Lee movies I guess.

An accessory necessary for a great outfit could be the hat - worn by the right person to the right style of clothing. I’m giving you a feel for some more of the YOtokyo line. I think it’s slightly inspired by Tokyo and Japan. This time I have made a tighter hat with a cocoon look. It should still stay within the colour scheme as before. This time the red parts of the hat could be more shiny or blank. Maybe even plastic - like a red screen coming from under the top of the hat.

This hat also comes down and round the neck – so if putting it on, you would almost put it over your head like a warrior-helmet. The white surrounding part is stiff and stands by itself. The two red blocks help to enhance the red coming from under the top of the hat. The strict ”V” shape compensates the “roundish” egg-shape from the top. It catches and holds the egg so to speak.

I have spent a weekend in Barcelona and got lots of new inspiration and ideas - just waiting to get out on paper and on the net – on Wohill of course, so I think it is time for me to get started on my next design...

So to complete the YOtokyo line just for the moment I have done one more design for you to look at. It still goes in the white and red colours. I made a cocoon-jacket to give some warmth to the early spring line. Its lining is light pink to make it a little bit extra interesting when you see the jacket slightly open, or hanging up. There is a strong pin-like needle in rubber to close the jacket opening. The high boots give a luxurious feeling. The red rectangles are also placed on the boots, on the hip-pocket and on the collar joining the v-neck lining. I gave the girl a red hair-band too. So she is dressed in the high-boots and the trousers are high in the waist.

I like the clean look that this line has. It is inspired by lots of different input that I have got lately. The common shapes and colours I have chosen are to keep the style of the line going in the same direction. Things have to suite each other - like the roundness and egg shape both come forward in the jacket and the hat I did last time. The time before that, I made another hat that reminds you of the jacket design. It’s nice to see shapes repeat themselves in the clothes and hats.

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