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Akio Hirata’s exhibition of hats.

Exhibition of hats

Published: Wed, 2011-06-29 07:30

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Real hats and ghost hats.

Akio Hirata has designed hats for 70 years. Now, the hats are shown in Tokyo and Nendo has created the exhibition space. They decided to mass produce around 4000 non-woven fabric hats which float and stream through the exhibition like ghosts or shells.

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