Orlando Palacios
Orlando Palacios is a creative artist based in New York City. Orlando has spent the past 20 years designing and manufacturing hats for fashion designers, celebrities, Broadway shows and people from around the world. As the owner and head designer of the New York haberdashery, Worth and Worth, he has made titfers for musicians ranging from Keith Richards to Elvis Costello and Beyoncé.[1] He often collaborates with fashion designers such as John Varvatos, Thom Browne, Robert Geller and Diane Von Fürstenberg for their runway presentations.
Fashion and design career
The Palacios family are originally from the village of Santa Teresa in Nicaragua. Orlando Palacios was born in 1964 in Los Angeles, where he worked as a master craftsman, for 6 years at Neiman and Carlson, an architecture and custom fabrication firm.
In 1990, Orlando started his own company by carving wooden hat forms for the hat industries, all across Europe and South America. While carving abroad, he discovered his passion for the art of hatmaking. 2 years later, he decided to leave California to start his career as an artist and hatmaker in New York City.
In 1999, he became the owner and head-designer at the New York haberdashery Worth & Worth, Est. 1922. After the store's farewell to Madison Avenue in the year 2000, Orlando engineered the revitalization of Worth & Worth by introducing the art of hatmaking to the business. He then decided to move the showroom and his atelier, to its present 57th street location.
By operating out of a small showroom and advertising strictly through word-of-mouth, he re-established the brand.[2] Orlando’s award-winning brand, Worth & Worth, is known for its exceptional quality and refinement when producing and selling handcrafted hats to stylish people worldwide.[3]
Orlando was also recently named one of the most stylish New Yorkers by Time-Out New York (magazine).[4]
Shortly after, Rolling Stone Magazine named Worth & Worth The Hot Rock & Roll Haberdasher of the Year.[5]
Artistic performances and installations
Below are a few references of artistic performances and installations created by Orlando Palacios.
2007 Our Time New York Berlin
In 2007, as a member of Our Time[6] (pool of artists from New York and Berlin), Orlando Palacios collaborated with other upcoming artists, to create on site specific art in Midtown, Manhattan, NYC. The installation addressed the mass consumption of fast food and its journey from production, consumption and secretion.
2007 Increase your albedo
Orlando took part in the Canary project[7] and worked on an installation for a project involving sculpture, fashion and interventionist performances. A metaphoric and artistic perspective finding new solutions to increase the overall reflectivity of the earth. The Canary Project produces art and media that deepen public understanding of human-induced climate change and energized commitment to solutions.
References
- ↑ Jonah Weiner, "Hot Rock&Roll Haberdasher Worth&Worth", Rolling Stone, October 2010
- ↑ Nordic Fashion biennale, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle
- ↑ Robert Simonson, "A Historic Hat Shop Looks Forward to a New Home Style", New York The Sun, 17 October 2006
- ↑ Sarah Bruning, "Most stylish New Yorkers: Orlando Rene Palacios", Time-Out New York (magazine), 7 February 2011
- ↑ Jonah Weiner, "Hot Rock&Roll Haberdasher Worth&Worth", Rolling Stone, October 2010
- ↑ As posted in Our Time Website http://ourtimenycberlin.wordpress.com July 30, 2011
- ↑ Posted by The Canary project, http://increaseyouralbedo.wordpress.com, 18 May 2007