Nick Smith (milliner)
Nick Smith (born 9 November 1979 in Liverpool, England) is a British milliner, fashion designer, and socialite. Biography. Smith is best known as a hat designer or milliner. He is also a socialite, author, recording artist, actor, venture capitalist and philanthropist. Smith studied fashion design and technology at the London College of Fashion and specialized in accessories and millinery. His millinery company is based on London, England; his central offices are based on Fifth Avenue, New York City and Liverpool, England. Career. Millinery. Smith presented his début collection at the Cafe de Paris during the 2001 London  Fashion Week. In 2005, Smith presented an environmentally friendly clothing line at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Los Angeles using modal and other organic environmentally friendly fabrics. In 2006, Smith won the Societas Style Award for designer of the year, which recognized his visionary talent of environmental ethical clothing. In 2008, Vogue announced Smith's return to London Fashion Week with Murder by Millinery, a collection which features vintage Jimmy Choo shoes worked into bonnets, to raise money for charity and become a touring exhibition after the end of LFW. Smith told Vogue that "the collection mixes both couture and art . Later this year, Smith won the prestigious World Style Award for Accessory Designer of the Year. Smith launched the “Wonderland” collection in 2010 at Dallas Texas. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Smith took the collection on a charitable “Tea Party Tour” of North America to promote the Nick Smith Foundation. Other ventures. 2007 Smith tried his hand at yet another venture, launching the world’s first organic, dairy free, gourmet designer chocolate: couture du chocolat" in Selfridges. 2007 Smith was a Judge of Miss Deaf UK along with Linzi Stoppard, Liz Fuller and Bobby Davro; which was filmed by the  BBC as a fly-on-the-wall three-part one-hour documentary series. 2008 Smith launched the Nick Smith Foundation, an American 501(c)(3) non profit charitable organization, striving to assist children and families with chronic diseases through eating disorders.