rosy naylor is a Scotland-based millinery designer. She created her own label ‘hatform’ in 2003 and has since been gaining recognition as an innovative designer both in the UK and internationally. Her work fuses sculpture with millinery, creating original and understated forms for the head.

Rosy has recently returned from a Scottish Arts Council funded research trip to Japan to explore ideas for a collaborative project with Japanese milliners. Rosy plans to curate an exhibition in 2007, shown in both Tokyo and Scotland, which examines a Japanese aesthetic.

Rosy trained as an artist + performer at the University of Brighton and Glasgow School of Art (MA), before later studying millinery at the London College of Fashion.

Each of Rosy’s hats is individually conceived, many of them are conceptually based, exploring ideas of the hidden and the revealed. They use traditional methods of millinery in their process of making, together with a contrasting textural quality of random overstitching and with the petal leaf motif becoming her signature for the piece, often placed on the side of each hat.