Carmen Miranda

I watched a show on good old BBC4 the other day about Carmen Miranda. I sort of vaguely knew who she was but pretty surprised to find out how much she had done and how hard she worked.

I am now completely fascinated by her head-wear. Her (what I would call) fruit turbans have been ingrained into my head as some sort of stereotypical tropical head wear, but they are so much more. What I would like to know is: is Carmen Miranda responsible for turbans being so fashionable in the 1940's or was she just following the trend?


Iam setting myself the challenge to create a piece of wearable contemporary head-wear inspired By Carmen Miranda... off to work I go.