Impressive Hat Styles Designed by Jean Barthet in the 1950s and 1960s ~ Vintage Everyday

Jean Barthet (1920–2000) was a French milliner who first rose to prominence in the 1950s as hat maker to Hollywood and French film stars, also designing hats for films such as The Young Girls of Rochefort.

Hat styles designed by Jean Barthet in the 1950s and ’60s

Barthet helped to define fashionable hat styles – including the bucket hat, pillbox hat and fedora – that predominated throughout the 1960s and collaborated with major couture houses. With a career spanning more than 40 years, he remained a favorite hatmaker of Sophia Loren (both for film and personal wear), also creating hats for Michael Jackson’s 1988 world tour.

Here below is a set of beautiful photos that shows impressive hat styles designed by Jean Barthet in the 1950s and 1960s.

Joan Olson wearing a hat by Jean Barthet, photo by Regina Relang, Paris, 1953

Rose Marie in layered tulle turban adorned with pink rose by Jean Barthet, emerald and diamond jewellry by Cartier, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1957

Rose Marie in hat of flexible draped satin in three shades of pink by Jean Barthet, jewelry by Van Cleef & Arpels, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1958

Grès has used a marvelous reversible wool, as light as down, for this coat in which the cape effect is given by the low inset of the sleeves, hat by Jean Barthet, handbag by Henry a la Pensée, photo by Guy Arsac, 1959

Gunila in very fine wool suit featuring longer jacket by Jules Crahay for Nina Ricci, hat by Jean Barthet and croc handbag by Ferest, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1959

Model in silky wool coat by Grès, hat by Jean Barthet, handbag by Durer, necklace by Scémama, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1959

Jean Newignton in wool suit with elongated jacket and mink collar by Maggy Rouff , mink hat by Jean Barthet, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1959

Model is wearing red velvet bonnet banded in satin piqué and voilette by Jean Barthet, fur by Marron, photo by Philippe Pottier, 1960

Sophia Loren wearing hat by Jean Barthet, photo by Pierluigi Praturlon, Italy, 1960

Wilhelmina in ivory wool suit with double-button closure on jacket as well as kirt, by Jacques Griffe, hat by Jean Barthet, photo by Roland de Vassal, 1960

Wilhelmina in sand-colored wool dress by Pierre Cardin, hat by Jean Barthet, photo by Roland de Vassal, Algeria, 1960

Wilhelmina in yellow linen two-piece by Michel Goma, wide-brimmed straw hat by Jean Barthet, photo by Roland de Vassal, 1960

Brigitte Bardot wears a hat of French stylist Jean Barthet, and photographed for French Elle, Paris, December 1961

Swedish twin models/actresses Mia and Pia Genberg in pearl shantung suits by Michel Goma and hats by Jean Barthet, photo by Jack Garofalo, Paris, 1961