Sarah Jessica Parker's Hat Designer Speaks

The hat that Sarah Jessica Parker wore to the London premiere of Sex And The City has been the hot fashion topic on everyone’s lips causing designer Philip Treacy to reveal all about his extravagant creation.

“Well, his mother kept chickens and geese, so he loves feathers and manipulating feathers,” Treacy’s spokesperson Nina Farnell-Watson tells People.

The hip designer was approached last week about making the hat, and after receiving pictures of SJP’s Alexander McQueen pistachio dress he started noting ideas.

Treacy then met with Parker for an hour on Sunday and a London hotel to discuss the hat. She tried on some different hat shapes and “found the one she loved,” says Farnell-Watson.

After the meeting, Treacy worked for two days straight and “very late into the night”, adorning the headpiece with peacock feathers he got from McQueen, which were used as trim on her dress.

Parker, who had been kept in the dark about the headpiece, first saw the finished hat about two hours before the premiere.

“Quite brave of her,” says Farnell-Watson. “It’s the most beautiful crazy hat and it’s so great that she wore a hat to a British premiere. The hat is such a quintessentially English idea, but it was done in such a Carrie Bradshaw way.”