Christ has resuscitated, as is the average height of New Yorkers' hats, at least at the Easter and Bonnet Festival this year.
The residents (and their dogs) flocked to the marches of the imposing Saint-Patrick cathedral on Sunday April 20, to display extravagant cover, several feet high, for the highly anticipated annual event. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the participants filled the streets bearing real Chinese take -out containers, balanced entire miniature cities on the crowns of the head and political trail, among other protruding facts.
Emerging after the civil war, the annual creative hat festival along the fifth avenue de Manhattan began as “Fashion walk“Rich New Yorkers leave their religious services wearing new clothes tend. Almost 150 years later, the parade was no longer centered on haute couture, rather turned into a competition where the original camp, the camp and the fantastic descent on one of the most emblematic monuments of worship in the city.
Chelsea Cooksey, an art professional who attended the parade for four years, brought together 15 friends and family members for the event of this weekend and asked them to select their favorite works of art as inspiration for their hoods.
“You must go with the most premonitory, and also some of the oldest art,” said Cooksey, whose hood has recreated a miniature installation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude “The Gates” (2005), said Hyperalgic.
A member of the Cooksey group wore a bowler hat supporting a banana in the shape of a conduit at the top of the eye at Maurizio Cattelan $ 6.2 million “Comedian” (2019). Another member of the group showed a Dalí style distorted clock on his head. In a tribute to “son of the man” by René Magritte (1964), another member of the Cooksey group walked in the streets with a green apple before his eyes.
One of the most finely detailed cups to appear in the procession belonged to Gina Kim, who stood with confidence in one place while the photographers capturing the miniature model partially in 3D from New York sitting on his head.
Kim, who is an annual participant in the parade, said Hyperalgic That the festival marks the end of winter and a re-emergence for New Yorkers.
“It is a positively loaded environment, and people say to how great they look,” said Kim.
At the other end of the festival, Ed Woodham, creator of the art of the public project in strange places, sat on a chair which he brought in front of Saks Fifth avenue carrying heaps of tulle fabric. Woodham said he was sitting there every year during the parade, which he called “centered on New York”.
“Whatever the shit is going on in the world right now, people are smiling. All the different people who are here are all smiling,” said Woodham. “It's a fest of love.”
Hairdresser Jerry Stacey and the visual artist Debra Roth, wearing strands of flowers and Poofy hats, could barely take a step in front of the center of Rockefeller without tourists and journalists to chase them for photos. Roth said she wanted to symbolize the Renaissance and push back with her costume. Nearby, a group of Italian tourists participated in the festivities with a tourist guide.
On the steps of the cathedral, the costume designer and performance artist Davey Mitchell dressed in a dress decorated with art inspired by Keith Haring, which, according to Mitchell, was her friend in the 80s.
The policy was essential during this year's hat parade. A walk carried a “Off Hands!” The protest panel, and another hatter portrayed President Trump, Elon Musk, and Vice-President JD Vance carrying their own caps, carrying symbols of violence such as swastikas, firearms and money. Supposing the statue of freedom, a woman's costume called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
A group of demonstrators affiliated with New York Catholic Workers Movement attended the parade – accidentally. They frequent the church, they said, calling the archbishop of New York to recognize the violence of Israel in Gaza as a genocide, in accordance with the resolutions of several Human rights organizations.
“Many people stop to notice it,” said Bernie Connaughton, holding a sign defending peace in Gaza, said Hyperalgic.
Friends Joy and Ellen, spectators who asked to be identified by their first names, said Hyperalgic The parade made a smile on their faces in a world that they feel less frequently.
“It's fanciful, it's wonderful, it's a big stay,” said Joy.
