Hats off! From eccentric to absurd-these are the trend hats of the season

At the latest since the inauguration of the US President at the end of January, it is clear: hats are back. Because in addition to the most diverse absurdities of the day, the headgear of First Lady Melania Trump developed into a quiet protagonist of the ceremony. And thus ensured plenty of media attention and speculation and discussion material.

Wearing hats with significant social events is a long -established tradition. Nor is it new that First Ladies wear such hats when swearing in American presidents - just think of models of the style icon Jackie Kennedy. However, the fact of the hat itself caused a sensation, but the choice of the surprisingly distinctive model by designer Eric Javit. This clearly deviated from the classic style codes of earlier specimens and presented itself strikingly strikingly striking and unapproachable. He not only sent clear messages, but also hit the fashionable nerve of the time.

Already in theRenaissanceBavarians were not only considered fashion accessory, but above all as aSymbol coding for social status and power. In recent years, however, the hat has become increasingly important, not least due to the gradual loosening of fashionable style codes. Since the 1970s, hats mainly act as a fashion. In women's fashion, hats traditionally distinguished themselves by soft silhouettes and delicate fabrics, always with a feminine appearance. Today we encounter you especially on special occasions such as weddings, balls, social events - or as sun protection.

Even if the importance of hats in everyday life decreases steadily, the socio-cultural coding cannot still be denied. Like all components of fashion, hats set visual statements that reflect the attitude of their carriers. They are increasingly less subtle as a powerful style element, especially in the coming spring/summer season. The classic models of women's fashion of yore- such as floppy or bell hat- are replaced by striking variants such as Fedora or Panamaut, but with a new twist. They present themselves from gigantic to eccentric to avant -garde and (almost) absurd.

The game with proportions is particularly striking. Numerous designers use oversized, deep -seated hatcremins, which largely cover the face. Houses such as Zimmermann and Valentino show sonnen hat-looking variations that come up with a slope for oversize and extravagance.

Also withThere are numerous hats in the current spring collection, also with surprisingly little insight (in the truest sense of the word). Instead of oversized brims, (the now ex) chief designer Sabato de Sarno relies on extremely long crowns that drop the hat deep into the face. These new interpretations create a certain distance and anonymity.

The extremely wide hatcremins and umbrellas, such as those can be seen at Choice and Nina Ricci, reinforce this distant, almost unapproachable effect. You frame your head and pull a visual border - similar to Melania Trump.

Driven to the top, the extreme shapes and oversize show the artificial -looking models of Weinsanto and Odette Alvarez, which, with their artistic, almost couture approach, give the hat a new, almost sculptural dimension.

The return of the hat to women's fashion and its reinterpretation once again illustrate the power of fashion to challenge and transform style codes. The powerful forms of the modern variants ensure an strikingly strong, almost dominant-distant look, on which Melania Trump also used. Whether her hat was intended to keep her husband at a distance how speculation is or whether he should convey a socio -political message - in the optical "funeral style" - only the First Lady himself.