Stephen Jones – the world’s most radical hatter

Stephen Jones is recalling his formative years. “On my student work placement at the couture house Lachasse in Mayfair, I would dress up in a suit, probably from Oxfam, as I liked the idea of being correct,” says the Wirral-born milliner. Svelte, sparkling eyed, Puck-like, he is seated in his book-filled studio at his eponymous millinery shop in Covent Garden. “If I was going to a club – and Central Saint Martins really did teach you how to go to clubs – I would be wearing vinyl…