Chanel’s royal society of hatmakers

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It’s a misty November morning, and in the eaves of Street Farm Workshops – a restored 17th-century farmhouse on the Highgrove Estate in Gloucestershire – six millinery students are hard at work. Barnaby Horn, a recent Royal College of Art graduate, is contemplating the crown of an unusually tall and verdant hat he’s making from sinamay, a material derived from the dried stalks…