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.
He 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.
Jean Barthet, Hat, photographed by Henry Clarke, 1955 via
Denise Sarrault in Jean Barthet Beret, photographed by Georges Saad, 1957 via
Capucine in Jean Barthet, Hat, photographed by Willy Maywald, 1950s via
Brigitte Bardot in Jean Barthet Hat, 1961 via
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