Gladys Tamez
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Gladys Tamez | |
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 Gladys Tamez | |
| Born | |
| Occupation | Milliner |
| Organization | Council of Fashion Designers of America |
| Known for | Fashion design |
| Notable work | Lady Gaga's Joanne hat, Taylor Swift's "22" fedora |
| Website | gladystamez |
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Gladys Tamez (born in McAllen, Texas) is a Mexican-American haute couture milliner or hat designer. She founded her eponymously named Gladys Tamez Millinery or "GTM" in Los Angeles in 2012.[1] Tamez is listed in Forbes magazine in 2015 as one of the most creative Mexicans in the world.[2] Her sculptural hats have graced the covers of Assouline, and she is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.[3]
Hat design inspiration
Born in McAllen, Texas, Tamez was raised in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and Monterrey, Mexico, in a family of Taurina bullfighters. Her mother, Elizabeth Tamez, owned a local bookstore called Tivoli, and at 10, she was reading Vogue. Tamez attended art school in Florence, Italy, where her initial designs were created. While traveling in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Tamez discovered a small hat shop run by four generations of milliners that inspired her to focus on hat design.[4]
Her creations are inspired by a range of sources from the Studio 54 era in New York City with Bianca Jagger and Cher, the architecture of John Lautner, and Mexican film stars Dolores del Río and María Félix.[5] In an interview with Purple, she states, "Everything is handmade. I don't have machines to make four or five at once. I still make them with woodblocks. Handmade is an old tradition that I want to keep alive."[6] Regarding her creations, Tamez told Flaunt Magazine, “You wonder who's going to wear it. It's the fantasy of imagining the life it will have. I always say, pick the hat that goes with you and not with your clothing. You wear the hat, the hat doesn't wear you.”[7] ¡Hola! named her in the list of the Top 100 Latina Powerhouse creatives.[8]
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