death_date birth_place birth_date gender signature article_title name occupation
february 2000 pyrenees , france 1920 male jean barthet - signature.png jean barthet
 jean barthet milliner
jean barthet

jean barthet -lrb- 1920 -- 2000 -rrb- was a french milliner who first rose to prominence in the 1950s as hat maker to hollywood and french film stars , also designing hats for films such as `` the young girls of rochefort '' .
he helped to define fashionable hat styles -- including the bucket hat , pillbox hat and fedora -- that predominated throughout the 1960s and collaborated with major couture houses .
with a career spanning more than 40 years , he remained a favourite hatmaker of sophia loren -lrb- both for film and personal wear -rrb- , also creating hats for michael jackson 's 1988 world tour .
